The first stop to donate supplies was at Caritas, a hospital/clinic/shelter run by the Daughters of Charity, Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul. We met Sister Judy, the sister in charge, and handed over many medical supplies, most of which are practically impossible to attain in Cuba. There were 17 members of our Humanitarian Mission and each brought between 10 to 15 pounds of supplies. The major part of my donation was 10 pounds of Oyster Shell Calcium with Vitamin D. We left them about 200 pounds of supplies.
The mission houses a clinic; one sister is a medical doctor. She will catalog everything, dispense it there and also make it available to the sisters that work outside the clinic. They also feed the indigent and the elderly. The nuns live there and work in the community. We also met 5 'orphans' but I will leave that wonderful story for another blog entry.
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