La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana, () was for 270 years Havana's repository of Havana's unwanted children. The House of Charity started during a time when Cuba was experiencing extreme poverty, unemployment, and corruption in the government. Corrupt leaders were plundering the public treasury and little attention was given to social assistance, health, education, or the protection of the poor: "los desamparados". Read more on Wikipedia
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