They cook for the forgotten, and the regime pursues them: they are organizing a support campaign for Lara Crofs and Daniela Peral

Saily González launched a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to support Yamilka Lafita —known on social media as Lara Crofs— and her partner Daniela Peral, two women who cook and distribute food to people in extreme vulnerability in Havana while the Cuban regime harasses, detains, and pressures them to leave the country.

The campaign aims to cover ingredients, transportation, and basic expenses so that both activists can sustain their independent humanitarian work, which the Cuban state not only fails to perform but also pressures both women to leave Cuba.

"Lara did not set out to be a heroine. She aimed for no one in her community to go to bed hungry," González emphasized while presenting the initiative, which seeks to ensure the continuation of work that Cuban authorities have attempted to halt through various means.

Among the documented repressive actions, regime agents detained her again in Havana, adding another arrest to a history of systematic harassment.

On another occasion, they seized more than 200 thermal packages and 20 liters of gasoline, materials intended directly for assisting vulnerable individuals.

Harassment is not limited to detentions and confiscations. The regime also prevented attendance at the farewell mass for the child Damir Ortiz, an episode that highlighted the extent to which authorities are willing to interfere in the personal lives of those engaged in independent humanitarian activism.

The trajectory of Yamilka Lafita in activism is long. She was detained along with Carolina Barrero during a call with the opposition figure Tania Bruguera, which shows that her profile as an activist has been known and monitored by the authorities for years.

His charitable work also included a campaign to aid victims of Hurricane Oscar in Guantánamo, demonstrating that his efforts extend beyond Havana and respond to emergencies in various parts of the country.

Analysts and human rights organizations have pointed out that what Lafita and Peral are experiencing reflects a pattern of repression applied against other community aid projects in Cuba, where the State systematically targets any independent civil initiative that might expose its inability to care for the most vulnerable population.