Dominican help allows faster recovery in Cuba

Havana.– The roofs of school and health facilities in eastern Las Tunas province (660 kilometers east of Havana city) are being repaired with 4,000 zinc sheets and 5,000 wooden strips donated by the Dominican Republic.

Granma newspaper reports that, just a few hours after the beginning of the fast and organized distribution of this aid, everybody agrees that it was the right thing to use those resources to repair these facilities severely damaged by Hurricane Ike’s winds that battered Cuba last September.

This decision, analyzed in the Civil Defense Council at the request of the provincial government, will benefit some 1,420 families whose children study in 13 schools currently being repaired.
Also being repaired are several senior citizen clubs in the Jesus Menendez, Puerto Padre and Manatí municipalities, as well as a maternity home and a dozen medical facilities.