Cubans turn to free community pharmacies from Catholic Charities as medicines grow scarce

Every Thursday and Sunday at noon, dozens of people gather outside an apartment building in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood. Laura Mendoza comes downstairs, checks their names against a list and hands out medicine they requested through WhatsApp.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”