The Caribbean Association of Cuba (ACC), about to celebrate its 91st anniversary, is engaged in an intense reorganization and search for new supports to make it culturally and economically sustainable, in its purpose of disseminating and sustaining the culture of some 25 Caribbean nations, including, of course, Cuba, and also to be a center for the formation of values in the new generations.
The executive board of this Association, headed by its president María Rollok Hernández, in its first General Assembly of this year 2023, held last Sunday, also informed of its union with a Medium and Small Enterprise, MIPYME, as the current laws allow it to do.
The union with the MIPYME will allow the rehabilitation of the former ACC headquarters, located at 88th Street # 4101, corner 41, in the capital’s municipality of Marianao. The small private entity will also provide other services that will help consolidate educational and cultural programs, and above all, the maintenance of Caribbean traditions, including culinary, dance and linguistic ones.
Currently, the ACC in Havana has more than 450 members, most of them descendants, mainly from the English-speaking Caribbean and Haiti.
In addition, the institution sponsors the “ACADEMIA ABM CIENCIA CON ARTE” (ABM SCIENCE WITH ART ACADEMY), directed by Mercedes Cabrera, a graduate and Master in Science, from the Romerillo neighbourhood in the municipality of Playa, in this capital city.
This academy was recently selected by the national board of the Federation of Cuban Women to represent Cuba in Mexico next March, due to its project of working with young people who are not linked to study nor work, and whom it trains and returns to society, being better citizens and with a professional profile, both for males and females.
The Caribbean Association of Cuba was founded on March 3, 1932, later becoming a national entity with branches in the provinces of Camagüey, Santiago de Cuba, Las Tunas, Sanctí Spiritus, Guantánamo and Holguín.
The recovery of its status as a national governing body, which has been missing since 2005, is one of the main objectives set by the Havana ACC, in full harmony with the wishes of the former provincial branches already mentioned.
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