Health and Nutrition

While Cuba has excellent doctors and medical technicians, there is a critical and chronic lack of life-saving and maintenance pharmaceuticals. This situation also exists in Haiti but is further complicated by the lack of a basic medical infrastructure.

Problems associated with poor prenatal care in Haiti include learning disabilities, low birth weight, and birth defects such as spina-bifida. Lack of mental development lasts a lifetime. Prenatal vitamins are a simple solution to avoid this tragedy. In certain areas, without Living in Faith, this prenatal care is just not available.

In Cuba, parents are brought forward during church services and given a supply of vitamins as a gift. They realize this is a gift from the Lord, and many times have shed tears of gratitude. Once again, without Living in Faith, these vitamins could not be obtained.

A woman who came to pick up her eyeglasses at the mission house in Havana asked if Living in Faith could provide a towel and some lace so that she, the grandmother, could give it to her daughter who was about to give birth. We provided her with a "real" baby blanket - the grandmother wept with gratitude. God works through Living in Faith in wonderful ways.

Medicines are distributed through the church community and the Christian doctors in Cuba. Bringing supplies into Cuba is difficult due to the U.S. embargo against Cuba, but Living in Faith has been successful at working through the challenging licensing process.