Presently of aggression towards Cuba we should spotlight the work of the nation by way of well being care and worldwide collaboration, mentioned Addrey, who graduated from the Latin American College of Drugs (ELAM), throughout an interview with Prensa Latina.
“I imagine that the instance of ELAM, which after 25 years continues to provide docs for the world, is obvious proof that Cuba has exported well being, love and friendship to the world whereas the US continues to export violence,” she added.
Sadly, we live in a rustic that has a damaged well being construction, the place folks with low financial sources don’t rely, which doesn’t deal with the human being, Dr. Addrey defined.
Our activity as ELAM graduates, as Cuba has educated us, is to return and focus right here, being an instance that one other world is feasible, she added.
She extolled the coaching she obtained within the Caribbean island “as docs of science and conscience,” and confused that “in Cuba, the kind of physician who’s educated is humanistic and supportive.”
Samira, who takes care of the ELAM program at IFCO (Interreligious Basis for Neighborhood Group), highlighted the group’s many years of expertise within the solidarity motion with Cuba “and we wish to make the most of that historical past,” she emphasised.
In 1967, Lucius Walker based IFCO and in 1988 he conceived the Pastors for Peace venture that organized humanitarian assist caravans as a option to assist victims of US international coverage within the area.
Walker promoted 21 Friendship Caravans from 1992 till his demise in September 2010, to carry humanitarian assist and medication to Cuba in yellow college buses, with out asking for authorization or a license from US authorities.
Within the interview, Samira spoke about defending the legacy of the Reverend Lucius and of the belief in her communities with the coaching they obtain in Cuba.
For Addrey, “Fidel Castro’s dream lives on, we have now seen 25 years and we’ll see 25 extra years of a affluent ELAM.”
Personally, for me, as a 2020 ELAM graduate, Cuba has bolstered lots of the values I grew up with, Ghana-born Addrey confessed.
Cuba embraced me and handled me like a daughter in the course of the years I used to be there. Along with the medical abilities we discovered in medical college, there’s a stage of household, of a way of being human that I’ve not skilled anyplace else, she acknowledged.
“In Cuba, everybody exhibits solidarity with you in no matter chances are you’ll be and tries to assist you in your difficulties,” the physician mentioned.
She commented that Cuba is a part of her coronary heart “and I feel it is crucial for me to go that on to my daughter. She is aware of that there’s a nation removed from Ghana the place I used to be born, that we had been educated there and that it has an immensely stunning folks.”
I imagine that the world ought to acknowledge Cuba past the issues which are well-liked, you need to be there, you need to really feel the folks, reside with them and really feel their humanity, Addrey concluded.
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