Lodging and food
In our Home you can have a single room, a double room or share dormitory style with up to 7 people. We offer daily meals: breakfast and lunch or dinner. Our guests can choose their meals hours and the kind of food they would like to consume.
Packages to get to know Cuba
It is our pleasure to accompany you to get to know Cuba and the Cuban people. Our packages include: meetings, visits, trips and activities in general, in accordance with your particular interests.
Special offer
We are a social service project, which you can give support in many different manners. By opting for our services you are contributing directly to our humanitarian work. If you are interested in working with groups of children or seniors, you may apply to be a volunteer in the Casa Del Cariño.
Our packages
Senior citizens
To learn about the aging population in Cuba, we offer information about Cuban initiatives to address the needs of elderly people and ensure old age with quality of life. The program includes:
- Visits to Seniors Daycare Centers.
- Exchanges with Circles of Grandparents members.
- To know about the work at some sites of The Elderly’s University.
- To participate in the daily routine of community tai-chi groups.
- Expert lectures on:
- How to prepare ourselves for living successfully at our old age.
- Causes and consequences of population aging in Cuba.
- Strategies to reduce the social impact of the aging of the Cuban population.
Women: Participation in society and family life
For women and men who are committed to the struggle for equal rights for both sexes, we offer a series of visits and meetings that provide insight into how machismo is manifested in the Cuban society and about the work of the Cuban state to protect and reappraise women. These are:
- Visits to:
- The headquarters of the Federation of Cuban Women.
- Community projects with female leadership.
- Guidance Houses for women and families.
- Lectures given by experts on family matters:
- Roles of women in Cuban families.
- Domestic violence against women: incidence and legislation.
Diversity and Inclusion
For those interested in sexual diversity and respect for differences, we have designed a program of activities in order to show how the Cuban state and society treat these issues. For this purpose, we offer:
- Visit to the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX).
- Exchange with LGBT communities, Christian or not.
- Meeting with the HIV prevention group.
- Participation in the Journey Against Homophobia and Transphobia, which is held in May every year.
- Expert lectures on:
- Sexual and reproductive rights.
- Transsexualism.
Care For People With Special Needs
It is well-known that Cuba has been facing serious economic difficulties for a long time. Therefore many visitors are interested in discovering how this society takes care of people with special needs. For those who would like to find out about this aspect of the Cuban reality, we offer:
- Visits to:
- Schools for children with mental or physical-motor disabilities.
- Neurodevelopment Clinics.
- Diabetic Clinics.
- Homes for children without parental care.
- Nursing homes.
- Community projects
Healthy Lifestyle
Every day more people in the world are concerned about enhancing their quality of life. Also in Cuba this is a growing interest, so we have designed a package to show Cuban initiatives promoting a healthy lifestyle. This includes:
- Yoga or tai-chi classes.
- Healthy diet and recommendations for preparing and consuming each type of food.
- Therapeutic massages.
- Workshop on emotions management.
- Tours of ecological areas, permaculture farms and urban organic vegetable gardens.
- Enjoy the benefits of thermal baths.
Panorama Of Religions In Cuba
The cultural richness of the Cuban people is expressed in the coexistence of a wide variety of religious practices, which has generated a syncretism that is one of the most attractive elements of our culture. To learn about this mix of creeds, we propose:
- Meetings with Christians of various denominations and members of ecumenical centers.
- Visit to the Evangelical Seminary of Matanzas, the headquarters of the Jewish Community in Cuba and its Synagogue.
- Exchanges with practitioners of Afro-Cuban religions: babalaos, santeros, paleros; as well as believers from other various religions that coexist in our population.
- Workshops on drums and Afro-Cuban ritual dances.
- Conferences on religious syncretism.
Cuba: History And Culture
A route that is intended to cover distinctive elements of our country and nationality: music, dance, tobacco, rum, colonial architecture… It leads you from sites with historical and cultural significance, our traditions, to the current Cuban arts productions. It includes:
- Tours of Old Havana.
- Watch the process of creating Habanos.
- Meet some of our historic cities: Santa Clara, Trinidad, Camaguey, Santiago de Cuba and Baracoa.
- Tickets to dance or music performances.
- Visits to:
- Art schools.
- Rum Museum.
- Art Galleries and other museums.
New Alternatives In Production And Services
The private participation in the production of goods and services is something new in the Cuban socioeconomic landscape. In the Island, now it is the time to explore alternatives, discover chances and establish structures and methods. For getting to know about this process, its achievements and weaknesses, we offer:
- Exchanges with:
- Members of non-agricultural cooperatives.
- Owners of private establishments.
- Free-lancers.
- Visits to:
- Private mini-industries.
- Various private establishments for services (restaurants, rooms for rent, day care centers, beauty salons).
- Conferences on:
- Current status of private sector participation in production and services.
- Duties and rights of self-employed professionals, small-business owners and employees in the private sector.
Cuba: International Solidarity
Despite the blockade Cuba has suffered for more than 5 decades, the Cuban people have found numerous opportunities to show solidarity with other nations. Thousands of Cuban professionals of various specialties have worked in very different parts of the planet. So there has never been lack of Cuba friends in the world and they have always defended our causes. To learn about this, we propose:
- Visit the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples.
- Meetings with:
- Doctors of the medical brigade “Henry Reeve”, created by Fidel Castro to offer help to other peoples.
- Free-lancTeachers involved in the adult literacy campaign in Latin America, using the Cuban method “Yo sí puedo”.
- Professionals in general who have fulfilled internationalist missions.
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