Jorge Luis Reyes and María Mayelín Barreras Castro are helpful by nature. Helping people and sowing good is an essential part of their daily lives. Today, when the pandemic is also testing our virtues, they continue to make friends by sharing with others food, cleaning products and whatever resources they have from their personal coffers.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- As the love for literature runs through their veins and is manifested in beautiful verses, writers are the recipients of this good deed, mainly older adults. Among them Xiomara Maura Rodríguez Ávila, professor at the University of Las Tunas and author of the books El arcoíris en el vaso (The rainbow in the glass), Espantapájaros (Scarecrow) and others.
"It is a very nice gesture on their part, especially because they give us basic supplies, bought with their own resources. They brought me food and that is appreciated, especially when you live with your sick mother. Also, I had a fall a few months ago and they have been on the lookout; they even helped me with transportation to get medical assistance once," she said.
Another beneficiary is Lester Daniel Fernández Ballester, a student of Social Communication and a writer. "They brought me milk and a package of kibble. Perhaps to someone, it seems little, but in these complex times they are a blessing," said the young man who appears in anthologies such as Letras y memoria by Antonio Gutiérrez Rodríguez.
"We do not expect anything in return, we do it for the love of God and for the love of our neighbor", said Jorge Luis. He and Mayelín are Christians, their belief fuels such behavior, which has made the lives of more than a dozen people in the capital city happy. But they are not the only ones. Others are also doing work worthy of recognition, although they do not practice any belief.
Miguel García, a member of the baseball team of Las Tunas (Category U-23), works as a social manager in the Buena Vista neighborhood, in the city of Las Tunas.
"I am very happy to be able to help vulnerable people with the purchase of medicine, food and anything else they need. Specifically, I'm helping two brothers and an elderly couple," said the young man who is strengthening his shoulder to return to training, after suffering an injury that prevented him from continuing in the National Series.
"Thanks to his responsibility, dedication, seriousness and willingness, my brother and I have received food and medicine without leaving home. We want to recognize his supportive and humane attitude," Amado Batista, one of the young man's grandparents, said on his Facebook account.
Miguel works in the Sports Center and since he was 9 years old he embraced the world of "the ball" until he made his dream come true and obtained results in competitions of that sport. Today he is an example in this battle.
Meanwhile, peasants like Yoandris Escobar Aguilera, from Majibacoa, donate part of their harvest to institutions such as nursing homes. Who knows how many other Cubans give part of their soul to others in every gesture of solidarity? If the pandemic has brought something good, it has been the revival of good customs and values that exalt human beings.
