CAMAGÜEY.- Forty six families affected by climatic events in this municipality, live today in comfortable buildings in the community “Nueva Altagracia”, inaugurated this Friday in the Popular Council of Altagracia about 9 miles North-East of the provincial capital.
The re-adaptation of the facilities of the former basic secondary school in the country “Antonio Suárez Domínguez” and new spaces for medical, educational, commercial and gastronomic services, with a cost exceeding 2,5 million pesos, allows the safe and decent staying of over one hundred children and adults, whose previous houses were totally damaged by floods, cyclones and hurricanes that passed in different places of this main territory.
One of the people benefited Yesenia Varona Pérez, and her eight year old daughter Jessica, lived relocated for five years since their home in Prieto neighborhood in Camagüey was damaged by a meteorological phenomenon. “I am very happy and grateful to the Revolution, for giving us this new house”, expressed, while the little girl is very happy in her home, specially “with the shower in her bathroom”, she said joyfully.
Manfredo Melían Mora, chief of the brigade of the contingent Camilo Cienfuegos, pointed out that they kept 170 builders every day in the execution of the work of the settlement which concluded in 135 days of work and the builders are already working – in situ – in the projects of other 19 houses in blocks, wood and Sandino technology.
The engineer Gober Estrada Noy, director of the Number One Construction Company of the MICONS, said that this year they will finish 127 buildings and with that purpose they are working in the modifications of the facilities of the Chalay, in the city of Camagüey, the Military Sector in Florida and the shelter pavilions in the plant “Ignacio Agramonte” in Florida, and other spaces that they will turn into homes in Hatuey, Sibanicú, and Santa Cruz del Sur.
The member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party, Lázara Mercedes López Acea; Ariel Santana Santiesteban, first secretary in the province, the deputy Isabel González Cárdenas, president of the Provincial Assembly of the People’s Power and the highest political and governmental authorities of the provincial capital attended the official delivery of the keys to the tenants of “Nueva Altagracia” and acknowledged the municipal entities that supported the construction of the homes for the affected people in the municipality of Camagüey
The also member of the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party in Florida shared time with the workers of the FerroAzuc “ 60 Aniversario” Workshops to know of their productive advances, supported mainly by the movement of innovators and rationalizers in the making of pieces and accessories in deficit and the measures for the saving of fuel and import resources, to guarantee, in spite of the tight blockade, the railway transportation of sugar and diverse merchandise.
The political directive evaluated the food production in the Packaging Plant “Tomás Rojas Rodríguez”, where, besides the advances in the diversification of gastronomic offers that contributes to the increase in the workers’ salaries, it is necessary to rescue and stabilize the production of quality croquettes (Macurije) that has always popularly distinguished the center.
- Translated by Elianna Díaz Mendieta