A solidarity campaign launched on Facebook raised over 500,000 Cuban pesos for Alejandro, a boy with cerebral palsy who lives with his mother in a humble wooden house in the Bosque de La Habana, as announced by activist Guillermo Rodríguez Sánchez when the collection closed this Monday.
Of that total, 350,000 pesos were received through a BPA bank card, and another 150,000 came in cash through various means over the course of the week, according to the organizer himself, who provided graphic evidence published on his profile.
"There are already 350,000 pesos on the card, and 150,000 have been delivered in cash throughout this week through various channels and people, as I have been posting with compelling graphic evidence," wrote Rodríguez Sánchez while announcing the end of the fundraising campaign.
The campaign began on July 24 and in just 36 hours, it had already surpassed 305,000 pesos, highlighting the swift mobilization of solidarity among Cubans both on the island and abroad.
Damaris, mother of Alejandro, raises her son alone and works as a seamstress to support their home under extremely precarious conditions.
The photograph published alongside the announcement shows them inside their home: walls made of wood painted in a faded blue, a small table fan, and windows with wooden blinds—a portrait of the reality faced by thousands of Cuban families dealing with serious chronic illnesses without material support from the State.
Rodríguez Sánchez, known on social media as "Guillermo Rodsan," publicly thanked those who contributed to or shared the campaign: "Thank you for offering your visibility to provide a little financial relief to people who need it and deserve it."
The activist, who left Cuba in 2025 through a migration route via Nicaragua, continues to organize these collections from abroad with the support of people on the island and documents each delivery with photos to build trust among donors.
This case adds to a series of similar campaigns that Rodríguez Sánchez has led in recent months: in April 2026, he raised one million pesos for a family in Júcaro, Ciego de Ávila, and in June of that same year, a fundraising effort linked to his profile surpassed 1.5 million pesos to help a child with severe autism in Holguín.
Alejandro's case is not the only one this month: on July 18th, 400,000 pesos were raised in two days for a girl named Lía, and on July 14th, Cubans collected 45,000 pesos for a boy in Cárdenas, Matanzas.
This pattern of digital solidarity reflects both the mobilization capacity of the diaspora and citizens on the island, as well as the lack of effective social protection networks for families facing serious chronic illnesses—a gap that the Cuban State does not address and that the Cubans themselves are trying to fill through social media.
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