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Donation from US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan in Havana. 

By Diony Sanabia Abadia
CUBA, August 23, 2011.- Cuba received today 100 tons of goods donated by the 22nd Cuba-US Friendshipment Caravan whose members visited the Island last July.

The cargo, collected in 130 US cities and ferried through the port of Tampico to Havana's container terminal, includes seven buses and one car, computers, bikes, medical technology, wheelchairs, crutches, hygiene products, school materials and instruments for arts schools.

Cuban officials recall that several computers seized from the 22nd Caravan in crossing the US border to Mexico were returned because of their protests.

From its first visit to Cuba in 1992 under the leadership of Rev. Lucius Walker, the Friendshipment Caravans have challenged the over 50-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade.

The merit of the initiative beyond economic worth lies in its huge message of love, Cuban Pastor Estela Hernandez, president of the Committee for the distribution of these goods, told the media.

She explained that after analysis by several Cuban institutions, among them the Donation Processing Company and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, the goods are distributed to the places where they are most useful through out the island.

Hernandez underlined the example of the late Rev. Walker, deceased last September, adding that good work is the best homage to the US Reverend and to help keeping him alive among us. (Cubaminrex-Prensa Latina)