Children recycle aluminum in a rural community of Santiago de Cuba to support missionary dining halls.

The Cuban priest Leandro NaunHung shared on social media last Sunday the story of a group of children in a rural community in Santiago de Cuba who crush aluminum cans to sell them, as a way to support the missionary cafeterias in the area.

In the video shared by NaunHung on Facebook, a girl presented what she called a "missionary center," an outdoor space where about a dozen people, mostly children and young people, are dedicated to crushing aluminum cans.

The girl also showed the place where the cans that still need to be crushed are stacked, explaining that the goal is "to raise the money we need for our missionary dining halls."

A woman from the community explained that the source of the cans that the children crush is collected by “brothers from the different communities,” as it constitutes “the contribution they make to the church.”

Moreover, he indicated that later, the children, youth, and adolescents take care of crushing them, packaging them in bags, and selling them.

The girl also showed in the video another of the activities they do in the rural community of Santiago de Cuba, which is making bread: “You can eat it with honey, with whatever you want, it’s delicious bread.”

In a nearby house, the little girl showed how the young people take care of preparing the dough for the bread, which is then baked in a wood-fired oven, and shared among the parishioners and community members who attend the masses.

Recently, the priest NaunHung distributed bread during a Sunday mass in a rural area of Santiago de Cuba, highlighting this gesture as a way to share joy and resist the harsh reality faced by Cubans.

NaunHung, in a video published on Facebook, expressed a message of hope and solidarity while distributing bread in a rural area of Santiago de Cuba: “We bring you a gift, we bring you bread,” said the priest, highlighting that, in the midst of the crisis affecting so many families, sharing food is a way to bring joy.

In recent days, the parish priest also shared a post urging people about the importance and need to recycle aluminum cans, to generate income and contribute to the family and the church.