Carmina, what is your "history", the "history" that brought you to Cuba?
"Peoples who are happy do not have a history"....just some, of course! When I was young I offered myself for the missions. Concha Camacho sent me in 1969 to...Puerto Rico! I was "missioned" in the University of the Sacred Heart for 19 years. In January 1987 the four RSCJ who were in Cuba at that time asked me to give a retreat to religious. "I came, I saw, and I fell in love with Cuba!" When I returned to Puerto Rico I wrote to Helen and asked her to see if it would be possible for me to go and work there, The "Yes" arrived in March of that year, and I arrived in Cuba on the 28th January 1988.

What gives you life?
What gives me life is

• the challenge posed by the people of Cuba, a mixture of yes and no, of death and life, of utopia and disenchantment;
• a people hungry for a God about whom they know almost nothing, and the tender yet demanding experience of being able to offer comfort and a small sign of hope in the arid path that they follow each day;
• to see how "God", with "determined determination" looks for every human being in order to save each one;
• the religious community, poor, small, and sinful, yet a source of friendship and of help as we follow Jesus in each other?s company.

How do you give life?
What a question! How do I give life? I think that it is through my charism lived at the service of education. This charism is the means through which I can awaken Thirst and walk with, slowly, towards the Fountain. " There is a hidden well in a corner of the desert, one with very good water for the heart." (St. Exupéry)