They ask for help to be able to maintain a dining room for the elderly without resources: "Every day it becomes more difficult for us"

A private Cuban initiative that delivers food to elderly people without resources is asking for donations to be able to maintain its dining room, in the midst of the terrible crisis that the country is going through.

Yankiel Fernandez, coordinator of the Breath of Life Humanitarian Project, asked in his profileFacebook financial aid with which to buy groceries to continue providing lunch to the 28 elderly people they care for.

The list includes:rice, chicken, dogs or sausages, hash and eggs.

"Whatever you can donate, we really appreciate it, we are in difficult days," he said.

The account numbers are 9224 9598 7881 8648 (cup) and 9225 9598 7553 4866 (mlc). To be confirmed at the Breath of Life project phone number: 58-04-77-06.

Yankiel's project began nine years ago. It is a small dining room where lunch is given to 28 elderly people who mostly live alone and have no resources.

"Every day it becomes more difficult for us, together we can do something. We are in a country where the elderly are increasingly more and every day they are more vulnerable and isolated. Today we help them, tomorrow we will be the elderly and it is our turn today look at ourselves in this mirror," he said in anotherpost.

The project iscollecting donations of toiletries, medicines and food for the elderly.

"Write to Messenger and we will respond. Thank you for helping even if it is by sharing. Contact the Aliento de Vida project mobile number 58-04-77-06," he said.

The crisis in Cuba especially harms the elderly, who with their paltry pensions cannot cope with the high cost of living, with increasingly higher prices in a context of serious shortages of basic products.

With the monetary reordering policy that came into force in January 2021, theCuban government set pensions between 1528 and 1733 CUP, a figure that has remained unchanged.

There are many elderly people in the country who, being of retirement age, have had to continue working because otherwise they will die of hunger.

Food prices are among those that hit this population group the hardest.

About two weeks ago, ayoutuber He showedHow much food can you buy in Cuba with 100 dollars, equivalent to 23,200 pesos.

Ángel Rojas, from Las Tunas, detailed his purchase: 2,600 pesos for eight pounds of sheep, an avocado for 70, a piece of bacon for 1,200 pesos, 12 pounds of pork for 4,500 pesos, three packages of croquettes for 240 pesos, another of 12 sausages at 650 pesos, a knob of mayonnaise for 700 pesos and a can of tomato paste at 500 pesos.

The man commented that he spent the average salary of a Cuban on the pork he bought alone.