Across Cuba, families face severe shortages of basic food staples. Frequent blackouts make it worse: without reliable electricity, food often spoils before it can be eaten or shared.
Local organizations keep feeding their neighbors. They run community kitchens and meal programs for the people most at risk: older adults, children without caregivers and people with disabilities. One Shared Future | Un Futuro Compartido buys food for these partners, based on what they tell us they need most.
Food Security
Food delivered this year
Rice, beans, oil, chicken, pork, powdered milk, pasta and eggs went to four community groups that provide free meals. We bought everything at small stores in Havana to support the local economy.
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in food bought and delivered in March 2026
CA$3,489
community groups that provide free meals
Latest deliveries
June 2026
90 lb of chicken for the Convent of Belén, and rice, lentils, beans, eggs, pasta and tuna for Benjamín Moreno Psychopedagogical Medical Center.
March 2026
CA$3,489 in food for four community groups, including La Casita del Husillo, the Convent of Belén and La Edad de Oro. See what each one received below.
How we work
Partners tell us what they need
We buy locally
We deliver and keep records
Community kitchens let us know which staples they are short of.
Our team in Havana buys the food at small local stores, which also supports the local economy.
We bring the food to each kitchen and record every purchase.
Community organizations in Havana that run kitchens and meal programs.
Our partners
Co-founders Thais and Yanisley (front left) with program participants
A community-led organization in El Husillo, a Havana neighborhood facing serious social and economic challenges. Co-founded by Thais, whose family has lived in the community for more than 100 years, La Casita runs a soup kitchen for local families alongside its education, health and cultural programs.
Primary school children perform for the older adults at the Convent of Belén
Serves more than 500 older adults, as well as children and people with disabilities. Its meal program provides free meals, and its shared garden brings generations together.
This is how staff have to carry water to try to bathe the 100 residents, who live with physical and mental disabilities
About 100 people with physical and mental disabilities live at this residential center in Havana. There, they receive care and educational support aimed at developing essential skills for their daily lives, such as learning to feed themselves, recognizing sounds, and communicating through language.
Delivered in March 2026
200 lb of rice (four 50-lb sacks) and 40 small bags
180 bags of dry beans
48 cans of beans
80 packages of pasta
16 bottles of cooking oil
Delivered in March 2026
Delivered in March 2026
100 lb of rice (two 50-lb sacks) and 40 small bags
40 bottles of cooking oil
25 kg of milk
18 kg of instant mashed potatoes
143 packages of ramen noodles
7 bags of chicken breasts
20 bags of lentils
3 tubes of mortadella
90 small bags of rice
16 bottles of cooking oil
12 cartons of eggs
Chicken
Powdered milk
Pumpkin, sweet potato and carrots
2 tubes of mortadella
Your donation buys food for community kitchens that serve free meals in Havana
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