Cuba | 65 Years of Love for Cuba: A Support for the Cuban People Delegation
We are so happy that you will be joining us on this incredible People-to-People Journey to Cuba, December 25th, 2025 – January 1, 2026, where we’ll be celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples. Our journey includes an International Voluntary Work Brigade, plus other events.
One of the cornerstones of our work is a variety of projects to bring about reconciliation and normalized relations between the United States and Cuba. We have a solid reputation for organizing US delegations to the island.
On this journey, we’ll meet and share memorable moments with our Cuban neighbors, participating in educational forums, Solidarity Workshops, hanging out at social and cultural venues, and having exchanges with Cuban intellectuals, artists, students, and others representing various sectors of Cuban society. We’ll have direct conversations with the Cuban people about their own first-hand reality. We’ll take a road trip from Havana to visit the beautiful Viñales Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and have the opportunity to participate in the Special Marathon of Work for Love, held across all provinces and coordinated by the ICAP (Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples).
Our travel partners here and in Cuba will be available to make every aspect of your trip stress-free, where all of your expectations will be met by those who practice and promote ethical- and socially-responsible travel to Cuba.
Sam Anderson 
Brooklyn, NY native Sam Anderson is an author of books and essays on science, technology (The Third World Confronts Science & Technology-with the late French Professor Maurice Bazin) and the history of slavery: The Black Holocaust for Beginners (Writers and Readers Publishers, 1995-2018). In addition, he has been an editor of numerous Black journals and anthologies: Black Dialog, NOBO Journal, The Black Activist, In Defense of Mumia, Writers and Readers,1996 and the tribute anthology to the Late Amiri Baraka: Let Loose on the World, 2010. He was the first chair of a Black Studies Department in 1969-70 at Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. Anderson has also taught at SUNY Old Westbury, City College of NY, NYU, Rutgers University, and Brooklyn College, and was former Education Director at the Medgar Evers College’s Center for Law and Social Justice. He has also been active in the Civil Rights/Black Liberation Movement since 1964, as a member of the Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a founding member of the original Black Panther Party in 1966. Sam Anderson was also an active participant within the US Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s.
Rosemari Mealy, JD, PhD 
Rosemari is an International Human Rights Activist and longtime Friend of Cuba. She was an international journalist for Radio Habana Cuba (RHC). Dr. Mealy served as the NGO Rep. of the National Alliance of TW Journalists.She has been the recipient of several outstanding reporting awards from the National Association of Black Journalists (NATWJ). On February 15, 2024, she received a Proclamation from the NY City Council as one of six Black Women who have “Strengthened our city today as a result of their Contributions to Building Community Networks, Taking Risks in Challenging Injustices.” In 2019 she was presented a Congressional Proclamation from Congresswoman Yvette Clark of the 9th Congressional District of Brooklyn, NY. In 2011, Dr. Mealy was petitioned by the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the People (ICAP), where she was awarded the Friendship Medal by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba. She is the author of Fidel and Malcolm X-Memories of A Meeting(Black Classic Press, 2014); and Activism and Disciplinary Suspensions/ Expulsions at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): A Phenomenological Study of the Black Student Sit-In Movement, 1960-1962 (Mellen Press, 2013). Articles and Chapters: “An Incomprehensible Omission: Women and El-Hajj Malik El –Shabazz,” in A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X, J Ball and T. Burroughs, (Editors), Black Classic Press, 2013. “The Crisis of Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex” (Spring, 2000) African New World Studies, Florida International University, l (2). For more than twenty-five years, Prof. Mealy was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the City College of New York, Interdisciplinary Studies Department. In fall 2012, she was invited as a guest lecturer at the University of Havana in the Foreign Language Department. Rosemari has led a variety of thematic delegations to Cuba.
Tour Price
$2190 double occupancy 10-14 travelers
$2080 double occupancy 15-19 travelers
$2025 double occupancy 20-24 travelers
$1995 double occupancy 25+ travelers
$325 single supplement
The journey does NOT include RT airfare from US to Havana.
Please check American and/or Delta airlines to arrive in HAV from Miami on December 25, 2025 between 2-5:00 PM.
Depart HAV Jan 1 after 11:00 AM.
Trip Itinerary
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