Haiti Solidarity Brigade will arrive in Cuba tomorrow
The 5th Solidarity Brigade Antenor Fermin, from Haiti, will visit Cuba from tomorow March 17 to 27, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (Icap) reported today.
The 25 young people who make up the group bring an extensive agenda of activities that includes visits to various centers and places of interest in the provinces of Artemisa, Havana, Villa Clara and Ciego de Ávila.
They will also carry out voluntary agricultural work and exchange with young Cuban parliamentarians.
They will also meet with students and professors of the Raúl Roa García Higher Institute of International Relations and with Haitian descendants of the Caribbean Association of Cuba.
On the other hand, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, the Haitian delegation will attend the Afro-Caribbean Folkloric Festival Eva Gaspar, named after an immigrant Haitian woman who became a promoter of the cultural traditions of her land in the central region of Cuba.
In Santa Clara, the young Haitians will pay tribute to Che Guevara, they will visit the monument to the armored train*, as well as places of economic and social interest in this city.
The brigade is named after Anténor Firmin (1850-1911), a Haitian anthropologist, journalist and politician. He wrote a transcendental work: De la igualdad de las razas humanas (1885) and he met José Martí, who described Firmin as an “extraordinary man”.
With this gesture of solidarity, young Haitians pay tribute to the 215th anniversary of the proclamation of Haitian Independence and the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, according to Icap’s information.
(Taken from ACN in Spanish)
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
