Over the last few weeks, we have tried to give an insight into the difficult reality of life for Cubans. With the caravan, we are usually where escape has already happened. In Cuba we were ...
Over 40 musicians came together years ago under the name "La Luna Naranja" to create their own cultural center. But this flagship project was on the brink of collapse.
Everyone has probably heard of the Rastafarians in Jamaica. The fact that there are also Rastafarians in Cuba, on the other hand, is more insider knowledge. This community lives in complete harmony with nature.
Around 300 km west of Havana lies the Viñales Valley, one of the tourist hotspots. There, we supported the socio-cultural project "Ventana al Valle".
One of the projects we have supported in Cuba is "Niños en la frontera" in the capital Havana, more precisely in the middle of the social hotspot district "La Lisa".
During their project stay, the Karawanis Bruno and Pascal were able to experience the acute supply crisis in Cuba first-hand: The price of gasoline quintupled overnight (!).
In February 2024, the two Karawanis Bruno & Pascal traveled to Cuba to help people there who are on the edge of their existence. In the last two years, one million Cubans have fled their country!
Two schools in the middle of huge refugee ghettos in Beirut/Lebanon are among our heartfelt projects. Around 30,000 people live in each of these "ghettos", who are still considered refugees decades later ...
Back in 2021, we visited refugee camps in the mountains of Lebanon on the Bekaa Plain. We were shocked when we learned that people there freeze to death every year because of the cold.
Supporting the flagship project "Casa Sankara" is one of our oldest projects, which we have been supporting since December 2020. This time we were able to help with high-quality sewing machines from Oberwart.