Part 3 of 3 - Stories from Hurricane Melissa
- Xiomara Reboyras-Ortiz
- Dec 1
- 2 min read
These stories are provided by our CBF collaborator and their church community in Cuba.
This is Yudi Cari and her three children who face malnutrition. This brave woman is a new believer as a result of the Community work that our Church has been doing.
She lives with her small children in a precarious situation. Their home was destroyed after Hurricane Melisa, losing the very little they had, including what they had to sit on. At the moment they are living together in a relative's house, without food or water and lacking other resources for their sustenance and have no fixed economic income nor the possibility of obtaining it due to the conditions of the country.
Despite her situation, she feels very grateful for the help she has been receiving from the Church,
"despite everything I am happy because these have been days where I have been able to alleviate some of the hunger that my children have been experiencing in recent days"
This is how she expressed her gratitude, recognizing once again that God is Love even in the midst of pain.
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This is Valeria. She is 13 years old and is one of the teenagers in our church. Valeria lives with her grandmother, who is also a member of our church.
Once the hurricane winds were over, it was necessary to help them cover the roof with what was found because their few belongings were saturated with water, including the little food they had left and the mattresses where they sleep.
For our Cuban brothers and sisters, it is literally impossible to buy new mattresses. The mattresses are disassembled, the wadding is removed, and they are left to dry in the sun to be reassembled. Each mattress has decades and decades of use and dozens of repairs.
Still crying over the destruction, while we were talking to her, she told us that her faith continued to stand thanks to details like the one she was witnessing at that moment, referring to the lunch plate for her and her grandmother, because seven days after the phenomenon they had practically nothing to eat.
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*Hurricane Melissa was a Category 5 hurricane (wind speeds over 185mph) that made landfall over Jamaica and Cuba in late October, 2025.
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