People-to-People travel to Cuba is an act of solidarity and resistance. At a time when the U.S. government continues to intensify its economic war against the Cuban people, traveling to Cuba, listening, learning, and bringing humanitarian aid are concrete acts that challenge a policy built on isolation and collective punishment.

Join Global Exchange for a People-to-People Solidarity Delegation that brings together people committed to witnessing the realities of life under the U.S. blockade and standing alongside the Cuban people. This delegation is an opportunity to learn directly from community leaders, healthcare workers, educators, artists, journalists, and organizers about how Cubans are confronting one of the longest-running economic sieges in modern history while continuing to build and strengthen their communities.

For two days, delegates will also participate in the First International Colloquium, Fidel: Legacy and Future, commemorating the centenary of Fidel Castro Ruz. The gathering will bring together Cuban and international participants to examine Fidel’s legacy, discuss today’s political challenges, and explore the role of new generations in shaping Cuba’s future.

Throughout the delegation, we will hear directly from the people most affected by U.S. policy. We will meet with special educators striving to care for their students despite severe shortages caused by the blockade. We will also spend time with artists, cultural workers, and community organizers whose work continues to strengthen their neighborhoods despite extraordinary economic pressures.

We will also experience the arts, culture, and religious traditions that continue to flourish, not despite hardship, but alongside a deep collective commitment to community and dignity.

Every delegate will travel with humanitarian aid destined for Cuban hospitals, clinics, community organizations, and families. Each participant will help carry critically needed medicines and supplies that are increasingly difficult—or impossible—for Cubans to obtain because of the blockade. Global Exchange coordinates the collection, packing, and delivery of these supplies and can help every delegate fill their aid bags before departure.

When you return home, the work continues. Bearing witness carries responsibility. Delegates become advocates who can challenge misinformation, speak honestly about what they experienced, and help build the growing movement to end the U.S. blockade and support the Cuban people’s right to determine their own future.

For more information, please contact Drea at drea@globalexchange.org, or click the “Register Here” button to the right to join us!

For two days of the delegation, participants will attend the Colloquium on a scholarship basis. In a show of solidarity, the hosts are covering all participation costs for Global Exchange delegates during those two days, allowing attendees to take part at no additional cost.

Cost: $2,400. In a double (with a roommate)

Single supplement:  $90.
Staying in a casa with A/C and WiFi

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.