Hungry, scavenging in the trash: Cuba’s elderly increasingly rely on Havana’s Catholic churches

Older Cubans, including those who’ve lost their homes and whose younger relatives have left the country, are sometimes getting their only meal from volunteer programs.

HAVANA — If it weren’t for the meals served at the San Francisco de Asís church’s dining hall, Marta de la Caridad Pereira and her son, who has Hodgkin lymphoma, would have little to eat.

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