Havana, July 27 (ACN) To the many emotions being experienced in Cuba these days, the members of the XXXII. Pastors for Peace Friendship Caravan added another very powerful one today: the meeting with students and directors of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), on its premises, in this capital.
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In the presence of the hero of the Republic of Cuba, Fernando González Llort, President of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with Peoples (ICAP), students from countries such as Kenya, Chile, Palestine, South Sudan and Cambodia thanked these activists for their support Solidarity with this second homeland, who train them to be good doctors despite the blockade and material shortages.
Like some and Dr. Yoandra Muro Valle, director of the campus, said they are preparing not only to serve their people or to return to the most complicated areas of their nations of origin, but also with a willingness to help others in need of disasters, just as it happened, since Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro came up with the idea of ELAM.
Between songs from the students and testimonies of what this project has meant in their lives, Gail Walker, director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) and daughter of Reverend Lucius Walker, initiator of the solidarity program Pastors for Peace, highlighted the interest of several young caravanists to study there.
He pointed out that not a few people in the United States and in other parts of the world want to know more about the Cuban model in terms of training health professionals, which is why he put forward the idea of organizing a caravan in 2024 in which by Various Countries can allocate material resources to maintain and improve school infrastructure.
The American activist herself stressed how the economic, commercial and financial blockade of her government limits even the best development of projects as noble and humanitarian as this one, which according to the director of ELAM, in its 18 promotions has allowed more than 1,500 new doctors from 30 119 countries, including 218 from the United States, graduate.
After an emotional reception where Pastors for Peace members learned in general about the selection process of students in poor or complicated communities, their previous preparation in Cuba to learn Spanish and to level up basic skills, they divided into groups and discussed with those present students.
like dr Muro Valle, who was in charge of Cuban health workers in Guatemala and Bolivia, told you, the Latin American medical school makes the dreams of Fidel and Reverend Lucius Walker come true.
He then explained that they not only work to ensure that their graduates become the best doctors in the world, but at least distinguish them by focusing on the universal concept of medicine, humanity, integration, understanding of cultures and union have prepared with each other and live together, together with a heroic people like the Cuban people, who know the resistance and are always ready to offer help.
Since arriving in Cuba, the XXXII. Caravan of Pastors for Peace completed an intense program of activities in which stands out the handover on Monday by Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of Cuba of the Republic, the Order of Solidarity for this project and the Medal of Friendship for Gail Walker.
Along with the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade from Puerto Rico and representatives of the Socialism and Liberation Party and the Venceremos Brigade, both from the United States, its members took part in the central act on July 26 in Cienfuegos and these days have other emblematic centers in visited the capital of the country.
