Interview with Bruno Romero Ochoa, representative of the group B06 in Holguin, Cuba.
By Lien Estrada
HAVANA TIMES – I stumbled across the group called B06 by chance. I was taking a walk around Holguin’s Central Park when I ran into an announcement for a book sale to aid vulnerable children. I decided to attend on that Sunday morning, at the site of Holguin’s Hermanos Sainz Association, where the activity was being held. That’s when I discovered the project.
Bruno Romero, its founder and representative, agreed to grant me this interview, in part to disclose the fact that civic consciousness remains alive in these very turbulent times our country is suffering.
Bruno, when was the B06 project born, and why the name B06?
We formed about a year ago.
In the beginning the B was for my name, Bruno, and 06 for my date of birth. But when the project morphed from an individual effort to an entire collective, we gave the symbols a different meaning – B for bondad [kindness], and 06 no longer for my date of birth, but for the number that represents balance, solidarity in the language of numerology.
Where did the idea for the project arise?
It was on vacation and I was heading to Sagua de Tanamo [town in far eastern Cuba] with my family. On the way, I encountered many vulnerable children in diffi