The Dutch foundation Stichting Cuba Adelante delivered 11 containers of school supplies and medical supplies from the Netherlands to institutions in the municipalities of Holguín, Banes, and Moa, the official newspaper ¡Ahora! reported this Saturday.
The donation was managed through the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), whose delegate in the province of Holguín, Lupe Isabel Fernández Ramírez, publicly thanked for the contribution. She also highlighted the value of international support in the current socioeconomic situation in Cuba.
Resources were distributed among schools, hospitals, orphanages, nursing homes, and the pediatric hospital of the province, the media outlet emphasized.
Leaders of Stichting Cuba Adelante traveled to Holguín to personally verify the delivery of materials to the beneficiary institutions.
The Dutch organization, founded around 2015, develops humanitarian cooperation projects primarily aimed at the education and public health sectors.
Among the products that regularly make up their shipments are wheelchairs, walkers, hygiene items, mattresses, hospital equipment, and school and office supplies.
Stichting Cuba Adelante also has the ability to send goods without import taxes to official Cuban institutions, a method that facilitates the arrival of these resources to public services in the province, the source explained.
The donation comes at a time of acute crisis for Holguín, which started the 2026-2027 school year with a deficit of over 2,000 teachers, 524 schools damaged by Hurricane Melissa - of which 157 had not yet recovered when classes began - and a production of school uniforms that barely exceeded 60% for the prioritized grades.
In the health sector, the province is facing active outbreaks of the Aedes aegypti mosquito and a resurgence of dengue, as well as a chronic shortage of medical supplies.
This delivery is in addition to other international aid recently received by the province. At the end of September, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) donated 50 fumigation equipment to strengthen dengue control.
Similarly, the European Union funds the ECHO SÍFILIS project with approximately two million euros for the detection of sexually transmitted infections in pregnant women, adolescents, and newborns.
The accumulation of international donations in Holguín reflects the extent of the shortcomings that the Cuban state cannot address on its own, resulting from decades of centralized management and a structural economic crisis that worsens year after year.
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