The Cuban content creator Ana Laura Ivizate posted a video on Instagram in which she visits a family living in extreme poverty: two girls who live with their parents in a wooden board house with a dirt floor, lacking access to even the most basic necessities.
The Cuban influencer issued an urgent call for solidarity. Ivizate, a resident of the province of Pinar del Río and active on Instagram under the profile @laury_luci_cami, wrote the message from her perspective as a mother: "Today I am not speaking to you about content. I am speaking to you as a mother, as a human being."
In the post, the creator describes a sad reality in Cuba that is more common than many people think.
"There are two girls living in conditions that are painful to see, but what hurts more is knowing that no one is doing anything," he said.
The call is clear and direct to raise money, clothing, food, or anything that can be donated.
“It’s not about giving a lot. It’s about giving with the heart,” wrote Ivizate, providing her Cuban phone number — 5460-9224 — for those who wish to help to contact her directly.
The response in the comments was immediate, with hundreds of users asking in which province the girls live and how to channel their support.
A follower summarized the paradox that many feel: "What a tremendous gesture on your part, and the video doesn't have the reach it deserves. I don't understand how there can be absurd content that adds nothing and gets a million likes, while this video doesn’t."
This video fits into a pattern that Ivizate has consistently developed. In December 2025, his grandmother received a kerosene stove sent by a relative from abroad, a gift that allowed her to make coffee or tortillas without having to get up at 6:30 in the morning to light charcoal amidst the blackouts.
The video went viral and inspired a second anonymous user to send another gift to the elderly woman.
The creator has also reported that her community in Pinar del Río has been without regular water service for nine months and that the cistern they depend on is contaminated.
The case of the two girls is not an isolated incident. Cuba faces a housing deficit that exceeds 900,000 homes in 2026, with 35% of the housing stock in fair or poor condition, and the scarcity of construction materials makes it virtually impossible for families to repair their homes on their own.
In the absence of a state response, Cuban content creators have taken on the role of solidarity intermediaries.
Cases like that of the beauty queen who sent aid to those in need in Cuba, or that of the creator "Meli" documenting Milagros, a retired nurse living in ruins on a pension that "doesn't even last a day," reflect the same phenomenon: it is the citizens themselves and the diaspora who are trying to fill the gaps that the regime does not cover.
Ivizate summarized it with a phrase that concluded his post: "Because love is not just felt… Love is demonstrated."
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