The Entrepreneurship Fair dedicated to children is in session from this Friday until Saturday, June 25, at the Quinta de los Molinos in the capital.

Organized by the Office of the Historian of Havana and Local Development Projects such as Ekopeque, Golden Kids, the meeting includes expo-sales, book presentations, recreational-cultural activities, contests, a toy library, workshops and more, where the beneficiary public will be children and the family.

As part of the event, managers of enterprises aimed at children, professionals and community actors, dedicated to investigating these issues, will present their experiences on the opening day with the aim of socializing and identifying good practices in their work.

The academic day also includes debates and conferences. Among them, the one dedicated to the Current Affairs of entrepreneurship in Cuba stands out, a look at goods and services from responsible entrepreneurship with educational and recreational techniques for children, by Ariam Luis Mayor Magdalena, main specialist of Habana Espacios Creativos and member of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Network of the University of Havana.

The program also includes the presentation of the projects "Co-existing accompanying children and adolescents from vulnerable communities to undertake", coordinated by the Loyola Reina Center, and the campaign "Mídete" ̈, which addresses social responsibility to promote the protection of children's rights from entrepreneurship, by the UNICEF Office in Cuba.

Visitors will also be able to learn about the General in Chief of the Liberation Army, Máximo Gómez Báez, in the homonymous Museum that pays tribute to the loyal and internationalist Dominican-Cuban soldier, who until his last breath fought and warned Cubans about the danger that the United States represented for America. This is how he made it clear in his essay Future of Cuba: “With the armed intervention of the United States in the war of independence, it is indisputable that Cuba, upon inaugurating the Republic, has been so intimately linked politically and commercially to the Great American Republic, which almost and without almost come to constitute such a fatal or fortuitous intimacy, an accumulation of obligations, that have made its independence a myth. And as if the historical fact were worth nothing, there we have the Platt Act, an eternal license turned into an obligation for us Americans to interfere in our affairs».

Maximo Gomez Baez Museum. Photo: Gabriel Valdes Valdes

And it is that perhaps some do not know that the Generalissimo, at the end of the War of Independence, lived for three months in 1899, in the mansion located in the Quinta de los Molinos.

Photo: Gabriel Valdes Valdes

The Máximo Gómez Báez Museum was reopened on February 24, 2020 with the presence of Eusebio Leal Spengler, eternal historian of Havana. This building, declared a National Monument, houses photos of the Gómez-Toro family, fragments of letters from his son Francisco (Panchito, Antonio Maceo's assistant), his wife Bernarda and the Generalissimo himself, and personal belongings.

Learn more about the history of La Quinta de los Molinos

(With information from Tribuna de La Habana and Cubadebate)