If you're headed south this year please consider the following.
With tourism now still well below pre-pandemic levels, countries dependent on the industry are feeling the pinch. Now more than ever is the time to consider taking a suitcase of urgently needed medical supplies with you on your trip.
Not Just Tourists has chapters across Canada and will provide you with a FREE suitcase full of medical supplies and equipment that it has selected because they have either been requested by healthcare workers at your destination or because they are known to be in short supply.
They also provide the paperwork needed for customs and a contact to whom you can transfer the suitcase(s).
They can provide smaller bags like knapsacks if that's your preference.
My partner and I are longtime (since 1990) travellers to Cuba and for many years went 3 times a year. Since we discovered NJT we have been taking bags with us, usually two per trip. Always a smooth experience and a great feeling.
And, selfishly, a great tourist experience visiting hospitals and clinics, meeting Cuban healthcare workers and seeing the look on their face when they open a bag and see a gizmo whose use you can't even imagine but which is going to make a lot of lives better and longer.
NJT has contacts across the Caribbean, in Mexico and Central America, South America, the Philippines and parts of Africa.
If you are travelling to a resort you can often simply transfer the bag(s) you brought with you to the on-site medical staff. But I prefer to pay for a cab, if needed, and use the money I might have otherwise spent on a snorkelling trip or similar and visit a hospital or clinic.
If you're staying in a Cuban casa particular/hostal or similar elsewhere, you're likely within walking distance of a hospital or clinic, making it even easier and cheaper to drop a bag or two.
Give it a try. And consider treating yourself to a seat upgrade and get early boarding, a glass of fizzy wine, some less terrible food and a bigger luggage allowance so that you can fit in another NJT bag. LOL
https://njt.net/
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