Proyecto Auxilio, or "Project Help" is a sponsorship program through which volunteers adopt Cuban political prisoners, communicate directly with these prisoners and/or their families, and send them $50 of aid monthly.

The idea to form "Project Help" emerged in Cuba from the families of political prisoners who were organized nationally as the humanitarian opposition group, the Pedro Luis Boitel National Civic Resistance Movement. Bertha Antúnez Pernet, president of the group and sister of political prisoner Jorge Luis Garcia Perez "Antúnez," called Cubans in exile to sponsor prisoners of conscience and their families, who suffer economic straits due to their political stance. In November 1999, three Cuban-American congressional representatives, along with exile organizations in the U.S. and Spain, announced the creation of the program.

To sponsor a Cuban political prisoner or for more information, please call the Directorio, +1 305 -220 - 2713