The Uruguayan government will help a Cuban family who lost everything in a fire.

The Ministry of Social Development (Mides) of Uruguay committed to providing housing solutions to a Cuban couple with a ten-year-old child and to two Venezuelan individuals who lost their home during a fire that occurred on Wednesday.

The two-story house served as a residence on the upper floor and as a storage for cleaning supplies on the lower floor. It was located on the corner of José Scoseria and Pedro Francisco Berro in the Pocitos neighborhood of Montevideo, where the incident occurred.

Lorena Jones, director of the Migrants Department of Mides, explained to the newspaper El País that the affected individuals will receive emergency housing solutions and food.

Additionally, they will be able to apply for a pilot project aimed at migrant families in Montevideo, through which they could access a rental subsidy of $20,000, the official advanced.

The Cuban Lexis Molino mentioned that he, his partner, and his son are from Cuba and had been living in the house for a year with two Venezuelans.

Alexis said he works as a delivery man and, after dropping his son off at school, lay down to sleep for a while next to the woman when the fire forced them to leave the place.

"I felt an explosion and looked through the outside door, thinking it was in the trash can, that someone had hit it," he said.

However, he realized that "the air outside was different," and when he looked out into the hallway of the house, he saw that "the smoke was already inside, and I had to grab my wife and figure out how to get to the rooftop," he recounted.

According to the firefighters, the fire started on the ground floor of the building, where there was a storage room for cleaning products.

The Cuban family had been in that house for a year, and it has been a year and eight months since they arrived in Uruguay.

"I didn't have anything left, just my phone because I had it on hand at that moment. Everything was lost. We were planning to move soon, and we had taken the money out of the card," lamented Alexis.

Now the family will be able to apply to the aforementioned pilot project, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which is in an initial phase and the application process for the migrant population in general has not yet been opened.

However, currently migrants who are part of the Mides programs for people experiencing homelessness can request the program.

In order to apply, families must achieve a minimum wage among all members.

The subsidy is provided by the Ministry of Housing, but families must cover expenses for services such as water, electricity, and common expenses.