Dear Music Lover Friends: We are excited to share an incredible update on our HMT Relief Brigade. Thanks to the generosity of our community, we’ve raised over $5,500 USD so far! Our team members will begin arriving in Cuba this week! We’re also thrilled that our friends at Finca Morada in Miami, have received many donations in person for this effort. However, at this point, we are focusing exclusively on monetary donations to streamline the process and buy the exact items needed. While we’ve made great progress, we anticipate the total cost will reach around $10,000.
Any Amount of Donation Helps!
In an exciting development, we’ve received permission from the Cuban government to deliver aid directly to Guantánamo. Our plan is to distribute these donations casa by casa, using our musician network to focus on helping musicians and their families. Additionally, we will deliver a mass medicine donation to local pharmacies in small towns like San Antonio near Guantánamo City, where we’ve learned that many pharmacies have lost most of their limited supplies.
Thank you for your continued support! If you’d like to contribute, please send donations to Venmo (@CHAZ-CHAMBERS). Together, we are making a real impact where it’s needed most.
With gratitude,
Chaz & Yami
Founders of Musical Getaways & Havana Music Tours
[Note from Barb: Yes! You can go to Cuba as part of an “educational group”! Havana Music Tours meets these requirements. They’re kind of expensive but the experience will be worth it! I got to go to Havana during that narrow window of time that President Obama offered and it was wonderful – although it was easy to tell that the country, as a whole, is very poor. Go if you can. You will love the trip. In the meantime, if your budget will allow it, donate to help out. The “owners of Cuba” aren’t doing it.]
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