La Güinera, Cuba

Category of Activity

Women and Children

Brief Description

Ten years ago, this group of women saw their neighbourhood on the outskirts of Havana getting poorer, their housing more run-down and social problems deepening. With building materials and technical expertise from the Cuban State, the women have built nine of 22 proposed buildings, as well as a health clinic, junior high, special schools, a primary school, and a laundry. Organized into brigades with 33 women each, 19 work on the actual construction, while the remaining 14 work in setting up social services. 70% of the workers are women, and all the brigade chiefs are women.

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Contact Information

Margaret Randall
50 Cedar Hill Road N. E.
Albuquerque, NM, 87122 USA
Tel. #: 1-505-856 6543
Fax #: 1-505-857-0745