Cuba is experiencing a “food scarcity and nutrition crisis” according to humanitarian experts, who are calling for urgent assistance for those suffering desperate hunger.
Many of those afflicted are our brothers and sisters. One elderly and infirm believer, with the sole care of an 11-year-old granddaughter, told our project partners that she had no food to eat that day.
Many others could share accounts of similar hardships.
Rampant inflation has led to terrible shortages of meat, milk, beans, and other staples – even bread is scarce. Food, when available on the black market, is incredibly expensive. In some areas people have even been reduced to eating banana peels.
The result is widespread malnutrition. Children, the elderly, and the infirm suffer most.
Barnabas Aid is responding through our food.gives project by sending a 40 ft. container of dried soup mix and other dehydrated food that will prove a lifeline to hungry Cuban Christians.
“Our goal is distribute the food using a network of Cuban churches to those who need it most,” said Jeremy Frith, Head of Operations at Barnabas Aid USA. “We aim to help our brothers and sisters where they are, so they don’t feel that they have to leave and become refugees.”
But we urgently need your help to cover the transport costs for this delivery of aid. Getting food aid to Cuba is extremely challenging but is desperately needed.
If the Lord leads, could you consider giving a gift to help deliver food to our hungry and malnourished brothers and sisters?
