“Here at the church I have secure food — they give you nutritious food that fills you all day," says Marta de la Caridad Pereira. "Yesterday I ate here and I didn’t eat anything else the rest of the day.” She's one of dozens of mostly older or elderly Cubans who eat regularly at the dining hall in San Francisco de Asís church. ↧ Hungry, scavenging in the trash: Cuba’s elderly increasingly rely... Older Cubans, including those who’ve lost their homes and whose younger relatives have left the country, are sometimes getting their only meal from volunteer programs.