“I need someone to take me into account”

Havana Cuba. – “They don’t help me, they don’t give me a checkbook or a house; They don’t give me anything,” complains Bárbara Yadira González Lescailles, a young Cuban mother of four children who about three years ago broke into a state facility in the Novia del Mediodía area, in the municipality of La Lisa.

The place that the young woman currently occupies with her four children and in which she entered illegally after years of wandering on the street, she assures, does not have the slightest conditions to reside there, since it is a small property located on 59th Street. A, between 330 and 332, Reparto La Concepción, which served as the municipal headquarters of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR).

“There is no bathroom here, I don’t have water, and because it is illegal they don’t give me the right to put a single sink. I have to be carrying it [el agua] from the neighbors’ house, from those who want to be humanitarian with me and give it to me,” explained González Lescailles.

Furthermore, he reported that for this reason and his complex economic situation, he has sometimes not been able to send his children to school. “I don’t have money for a snack, nor do they have shoes to go to school… Without water, without food, I am on the verge of despair and madness,” she lamented.

Likewise, the interviewee highlighted that she has gone to all the state institutions that have to do with her situation. However, she assures that she has only received evasive responses, abuse and discrimination.

“Before getting here I used all legal channels, as they say on television, but they told me that all those were my personal problems and that they could not solve my case. They told me to wait, and I’ve been waiting for years,” said the young woman, who has presented her situation at Citizen Services of the Council of State, at the headquarters of the Government of La Lisa and the Municipal Housing Directorate of La Lisa, among others. others.

Even, adds González Lescailles, the Cuban authorities have gone so far as to issue warning reports for “going against the development of the minor” (not sending them to school).

“I cannot send my children to school without having breakfast and without a snack, and on one occasion one of them even had hypoglycemia because he had not eaten anything since the previous day. Now we have been on bread for three days, because I have nothing more to give them,” he lamented.

The young woman explains that she does not receive financial assistance from Social Security and that she cannot work because she has no one to take care of her children. “I just need someone to take me into account and be sensitive to my situation,” the woman asks.

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