Overview
People-to-People travel to Cuba remains one of the most powerful acts of resistance to a policy built on dehumanization.
Join Global Exchange in standing with the people of Cuba on an 8-day People-to-People Solidarity delegation, a moment of direct action in the face of escalating economic warfare against the Cuban people.
You will stand alongside Cuban workers, educators, healers, artists, and organizers, bearing witness to both the profound resilience of the Cuban people and the devastating human cost of decades of U.S. blockade. Through exchange with people from across Cuban society, you will return home carrying what you witnessed, with a responsibility to speak truth against the dangerous narratives coming out of Washington and a commitment to solidarity that does not end when the trip does.
Together, we will meet with economists confronting the lived realities of U.S. sanctions and hear directly how the blockade reaches into every corner of Cuban life, from food access to medicine to energy. We will visit a polyclinic and sit with healthcare professionals who cannot get the supplies they need to treat their patients, because the blockade blocks medicine from reaching over 100,000 people awaiting surgery, including 12,000 children, and denies cancer patients access to life-saving treatment. No gauze. No sutures. No IV bags. No antibiotics. The list goes on. We will sit with LGBTQIA+ advocates carrying forward a hard-won struggle for dignity and rights. We will learn from educators who lit one of the greatest literacy campaigns in human history and who continue to place education at the center of their revolutionary project.
We will move through community spaces alive with Afro-Cuban religion, music, dance, and visual art. We will walk the rows of an organic farm and understand food sovereignty as an act of resistance.
We will also be carrying humanitarian aid supplies as part of our delegation, each delegate filling bags and delivering them directly to the Cuban people. Global Exchange can support filling the bags for each delegate.
What’s Included
Accommodation
Accommodations in private homes "casas"
Single Supplement
$150 for Single supplement if you are in a room or request a room without a roommate.
Airport Transfers
On designated arrival and departure dates
Private bus
Or cars depending on group size
Meals
As listed on the itinerary. Generally 2 meals a day
Private events
And speakers as listed
English speaking guide to accommodate the group throughout the program
Admission fees
To all program activities
Donations
To organizations, speakers, communities we visit
What’s Not Included
Airfare
Visa and passport fees
Tips to guides, drivers, hotel staff, wait staff
Items of personal nature
Travel Insurance
Itinerary
Times and events subject to change
- Group arrival in Havana, welcome at airport by guide and driver.
- Welcome Lunch
- Check-in at hotel or casas
- Welcome dinner at La Torre
Note: lunch is pending depending on time of arrival.
- Breakfast at your place of accommodation
- 9.00am We’ll meet with renowned Architect Miguel Coyula to discuss architecture, history and challenges to development of the city of Havana.
- Continue to Habana Vieja, a designated UNESCO Heritage site. Enjoy a walking tour of the three main plazas; Plaza de las Armas, Plaza Vieja, Plaza del Catedral, Plaza San Francisco de Asís.
- 12.00pm Lunch at Corral Falso Community Art Project followed by a tour of the project to learn about their work in the community
- Return to the casas
- Dinner and evening on your own
- 11.30am Next we’ll visit CENESEX to learn about their work in Cuba and with the LGBTQ+ community. They will also speak on the more inclusive changes to the family code and how current sanctions impact their work
- 1.30pm Lunch at El Biky Restaurant
- 5.30pm Return to the casas
- Dinner and evening on your own
- Breakfast at your place of accommodation
- Morning visit to Cuba Libro, a socially responsible local community development project serving as a coffee house and English-language bookshop and community space. While here, we will meet with Economist Jorge Mario. Jorge is going to discuss with us the realities of the Cuban economy including challenges and triumphs, the impact of migration, remittances, MYPIME’s (small business enterprise) and the very real impacts of US sanctions and current aggression on the economy.
- Visit to a Social Welfare Community Project, Quisicuaba to learn about their work with the community enjoy lunch prepared there.
- Return to your accommodation
- Dinner and evening on your own
- Breakfast at your place of accommodation
- 9.00am Visit a polyclinic to learn more about the delivery of healthcare in Cuba and the challenges they are faced with given ongoing blackouts, lack of access to critical medication, and the very real impacts on patients young and old.
- 12.00pm Lunch included
- 2.00pm Visit to Centro Martin Luther King to learn about their work and projects serving the community.
- 4.00pm Return at your place of accommodation
- Meeting with a representative from Belly of the Beast independent Journalism outlet
- Dinner and evening on your own
- Breakfast at your place of accommodation
- 9.00am Tour the newly renovated Capital building.
- 10.30am Visit to the Literacy Museum to learn about the historic literacy campaign as well as more about delivery of Education in Cuba.
- 12.00pm Lunch at Habana 21
- 2.00pm Visit to the Grandparents community house where third-age adults go during the day for programs.
Here we will also learn about the challenges that elders face during this critical time in Cuba. - Return at your place of accommodation
- Dinner on your own
- Possible evening visit to enjoy Cuban Jazz at La Zorra y El Cuervo Jazz Club.
- Breakfast at your place of accommodation
- 9.30am Visit Organic Urban Garden to learn about organic sustainable agriculture, it’s history in Cuba the important role it plays as a community food source.
- 11.00am Visit Almacenes San José Artisant market of small businesses selling artwork, folk art and Cuban Handicrafts.
- Return to your place of accommodation to prepare for return to the US.
- Lunch on your own
- 7.30pm Farewell dinner
- Breakfast at your place of accommodation
- Depart for the airport to take return flight to US
-end of program-
