The Guantanamo homes for children without family protection organize multiple recreational and cultural activities, sponsored by the National Association of Small Farmers, as well as the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its creation in Cuba.

María Magdalena Maldonado Rodríguez, director of the El Provenir center, located in the Rubén López Sabariego Neighborhood, highlighted that they planned meetings to develop knowledge with other primary and secondary schools, visits to historical places, museums, parks and places of interest in the eastern territory.

She also pointed out that they will carry out exchange with members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution, sports and recreational activities, as well as productive work in plots and gardens to boost the self-sufficiency of children and workers.

“We try to create the closest thing to a normal home where they bathe, eat and sleep, watch television, have toys and we instill in them correct ethical values and eating habits, hygiene, collaboration with household chores, in addition to guiding them in continuity of studies to be good men and women, workers, professionals” adds the director.

In Guantanamo there are two centers that take in minors after it is proven that it is impossible for their parents or other families to care for them and they remain there until they are 18 years of age, attends to the children’s educational, health, and psychosocial needs

The homes for children without filial protection were created in 1984 and they are the result of the political will of the State to care for its infants and adolescents, so that, in conditions very similar to a home, they can be adequately cared for and protected.

Translated by Liubis Balart