An organization will receive 5,775 euros to provide health care in communities in the municipality of Guamá, Santiago de Cuba
14ymedio / EFE, Madrid, July 26, 2026 / The Santander City Council will allocate 201,000 euros to fund eleven development cooperation projects in Cuba and nine other countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The Local Government Board approved the resolution for the call for grants to programs in developing countries, as reported this Sunday by the council member responsible for the area, Mateo Echevarría.
One of the projects will be carried out in communities in the district of Chivirico, in the municipality of Guamá, Santiago de Cuba. Solidaridad para el Desarrollo y la Paz, known as Sodepaz, will receive 5,775 euros to guarantee health care in the area. The Spanish organization has worked in Guamá for more than a decade and has promoted initiatives in photovoltaic electrification, water supply, and sustainable agriculture together with Cubasolar, the Poder Popular, and other official institutions.
Sodepaz also maintains an openly pro-Cuban government political stance and attributes much of the island’s economic and health crisis to United States sanctions, in line with the official discourse from Havana. That profile is relevant to understanding the close relationship the organization maintains with Cuban state institutions and the political framework within which it develops its cooperation programs.
The City Council will fund up to 80% of the cost of each project. The remainder may be provided by the beneficiary organizations themselves or by other public or private entities.
Echevarría highlighted “the important work” of non-governmental organizations, which, in his view, play “a key role in the community development of many vulnerable populations around the world.”
The Santander City Council will give priority to initiatives related to meeting basic needs, building infrastructure, education, assistance for community development, promoting volunteer work, and promoting local economies.
The City Council will fund up to 80% of the cost of each project. The remainder may be provided by the beneficiary organizations themselves or by other public or private entities.
Most of the grants amount to around 20,000 euros. The Asociación de Cooperación y Desarrollo Solidario (Amycos) will receive 20,100 euros to guarantee access to drinking water, promote gender equality, and strengthen food sovereignty in the communities of Mollecancha and Rodeo Pampa, in the Bolivian municipality of Torotoro, department of Potosí.
The project includes climate change adaptation measures. Also in Bolivia, Ingeniería Sin Fronteras will receive 20,000 euros to improve access to basic sanitation and hygiene in communities in the municipality of Pocona.
Most of the grants amount to around 20,000 euros.
Manos Unidas will receive another 20,000 euros to strengthen indigenous and peasant communities in the Bolivian Chiquitanía through a program of ecological transition, environmental governance, gender equity, and resilience.
The Movimiento por la Paz, el Desarme y la Libertad will receive the same amount to promote the economic and social autonomy of women in seven towns in Al Hoceima and its surrounding area, in Morocco.
The Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz will have 20,099 euros to facilitate access to land restitution for victims of the Colombian armed conflict in the department of Antioquia, with an ethnic and differentiated approach.
Ayuda, Intercambio y Desarrollo will receive 20,000 euros to launch a poultry unit run by people with disabilities in the town of Ouonck, in Senegal.
Medicus Mundi will receive 20,098 euros to provide health care to 30 pregnant women in the Koulikoro area of Mali, while Brigadas Internacionales de Paz will receive 20,070 euros for a human rights, life, and territory defense project in Mexico.
The organization Ayuda Despegar Cantabria will have 14,755 euros to develop a community and educational garden at the Casa de la Oportunidad-Melong II, in Cameroon.
Lastly, Acción sin Fronteras will receive 20,100 euros to strengthen the agricultural capacities of indigenous Maya women in San Cristóbal Verapaz, Guatemala.
Translated by GH.
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