In just 36 hours, a solidarity campaign launched on Facebook managed to raise over 305,000 Cuban pesos for a mother from Havana who is raising her teenage son with cerebral palsy under extreme conditions.
The announcement was made this Thursday by the activist Guillermo Rodríguez Sánchez, known on social media as Guillermo Rodsan, who coordinated the fundraising among supporters both inside and outside of Cuba.
"I am pleased to inform you that thanks to the contributions from all of you, 305,000 pesos are available in 36 hours to gift to this mother from Havana who is raising her child with cerebral palsy under very difficult conditions," wrote Rodríguez Sánchez in his Facebook post.
The activist revealed that the final number will exceed that amount: "The final figure to be delivered will be greater than those 305,000; I still have a little surprise up my sleeve."
The money will be delivered partly in cash and partly via transfer, with photographic documentation of each step of the process, a methodology that Rodríguez Sánchez applies in all his campaigns to ensure transparency for donors.
The image that accompanied the post shows the mother inside a humble home, with deteriorated wooden walls, a floor of broken tiles, and toys on a table covered with green fabric, a scene that reflects the precariousness in which the family lives.
This case adds to a series of similar situations that have required citizen support in response to the shortcomings of the Cuban state.
On July 14, supportive Cubans raised 45 thousand pesos for Yosuán, a boy with cerebral palsy from Cárdenas, Matanzas.
Cuban families with children with this condition face a shortage of medications, a lack of rehabilitation supplies, and deteriorating hospital infrastructure—challenges that have been exacerbated by the economic and health crisis affecting the island in 2025 and 2026.
Rodríguez Sánchez has a documented history of similar campaigns. On July 18, he raised more than 400,000 pesos in two days for the girl Lía Isabel García Torres in Bayamo, Granma.
In April, he managed to raise one million pesos for a family in Júcaro, Ciego de Ávila, intended to finance a new home for two children. In June, together with Glenda Rancano, he gathered more than 1.5 million pesos and 2,125 dollars for Ernesto Almaguer Díaz.
Organized solidarity through social networks has become one of the few real mechanisms of support for Cuban families in situations of extreme vulnerability, in the face of a state that fails to meet their basic needs.
"Thank you for your trust," concluded Rodríguez Sánchez in his post, addressing those who made the record-time fundraising possible.
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