The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) -founded by Vilma on August 23, 1960, to which she devoted her life as its president-, has prepared a varied program of activities.

Surina Acosta, member of the Council of State and General Secretary of the FMC in this province, announced, as part of these activities, the inauguration of the Memorial named after the prominent fighter, at the house where she lived part of her life in Santiago de Cuba, located on San Geronimo, between Calvario and Carniceria streets, right in the heart of the city.

A colloquium on the life and work of the combatant and women’s leader has been organized, in which there will be exchanges with youngsters and with women workers and founders of day care centers. There will also be a meeting with rural women, acknowledgements to a group of Santiago de Cuba mothers, ceremonies for the presentation of new FMC members in all of the province’s municipalities, and a cultural evening at the Dolores Concert Hall.

The tireless revolutionary fighter, who was a guerrilla of the Eastern Second Front and shared with Raul Castro the last stage of the liberation struggle, died on June 18, 2007.