Grants and Contributions

October 2025 – Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a catastrophic Category 5 storm in southwestern Jamaica on October 28, 2025, and as a powerful Category 3 storm in eastern Cuba the following day. The hurricane caused widespread flooding, damage and destruction to infrastructure, as well as displacement in Jamaica and Cuba.

With GAC’s support, CARE Canada helps provide emergency shelter, essential relief items, multipurpose cash assistance, as well as water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services to the most vulnerable households affected by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica and Cuba. Project activities include: (1) distributing shelter and relief items to affected households; (2) providing services in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector; and (3) providing multipurpose cash assistance (Jamaica only).

October 2025 - Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a catastrophic Category 5 storm in southwestern Jamaica on October 28, 2025, and as a powerful Category 3 storm in eastern Cuba the following day. The hurricane caused widespread flooding, damage and destruction to infrastructure, as well as displacement in Jamaica and Cuba.

This project aims to improve food security and nutritional status of children up to 12 years and pregnant and breastfeeding women in 6 prioritized municipalities in Cuba. Project activities include: (1) facilitating opportunities for small farmers and cooperatives to access local markets and strengthen direct links with social protection programs for the sale of locally produced nutritious food; (2) strengthening local early warning system and integrated risk management plans to manage shocks and mitigate impacts with a age-sensitive and gender lens; (3) improving infrastructure of health, education and social protection institutions that are essential to guarantee optimal conditions for better nutrition and hygiene; and (4) improving local decision making related to food security and nutrition through multi-sectoral coordination and evidence generation considering child-sensitive and gender lens.

This project aims to enhance the well-being of unpaid caregivers and care receivers, particularly women and people with disabilities in selected municipalities in Havana and Pinar del Río, Cuba. Humanity and Inclusion seeks to partner with Cuban organizations to transform how care work is seen and provided, especially for the benefit of women caregivers and care receivers with disabilities. This aligns with the changes being implemented in Cuba around care work for life and Canada´s feminist approach to unpaid and paid care work.

Inclusive humanitarian response to the Hurricane Rafael in the Province of Artemisa.

Empowering women in the eastern region of Cuba through community intervention programs of training and support for entrepreneurship and gender equality.

Let's paint the Cuban economy purple... so that no one will be left behind.

October 2024 – On October 20, 2024, Hurricane Oscar made landfall in Cuba, causing severe floodings in the province of Guantanamo, further exacerbating the population's limited access to basic and nutritious food.

This project aims to reduce the impact of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Cuba by working on 2 components: (a) identifying and addressing discriminatory barriers and practices which hinder an effective response, and (b) establishing comprehensive and integrated services at national and local levels.

Enhancing La Joven Cuba platform for contributing to national dialogue and strengthening the Observatory on Political Extremism in Cuba.