After the visit of H.H. Saint John Paul II to Cuba, the Association renewed its focus on Cuba, funding its first Elderly Assistance Facility at the parish of Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Los Pinos, La Habana in 2000 and incorporating into its structure similar projects that had been previously individually developed by some of its members, including the Elderly Assistance Facilities at Santa María del Rosario and San Juan y Martínez. Currently, the Association has 60~ Elderly Assistance Facilities in Cuba that extend through the entirety of the island. The Association also supports the Seminary of San Carlos and San Ambrosio (founded in 1689), and a home for retired elderly priests, the only one in Cuba.

Also, in the early part of the 21st Century, the Association commenced conducting medical missions in the Caribbean and Central American regions, particularly in the Dominican Republic. The Association’s doctors and volunteers currently conduct two missions each year to the ILAC Center at Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic. The typical mission will include approximately 70 to 80 volunteers including doctors, nurses, scribes, other healthcare professionals, and non-medical personnel. Each mission, treats over 1,200 patients over a three-day weekend, resulting in over 2,000 patient visits and the delivery of approximately $125,000 worth of medications.

The expertise developed by the Association in the medical missions in the Dominican Republic permitted it to coordinate the initial relief efforts for the Order in response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, establishing a coordination center in Miami. Volunteers arrived on the island within 24 hours of the earthquake.

Currently, the Association includes 70~ Knights, Dames, Donates, and Chaplains, the majority of whom reside in Miami, Florida. With the return of the Association’s activities to Cuba, the Association invested its first members and Chaplain living in Cuba since 1959. A Delegation in Puerto Rico, also existed from 2006 to 2024, but is now a separate Association of the Order.

We follow the charism of the Order of Malta by supporting the poor and the sick with our dining facilities for the elderly in Cuba, in cooperation with the local Catholic Church, parish priests, and Bishops; our works at La Casa de Malta in San Juan Bosco parish and the St. John Bosco clinic at Corpus Christi parish, both in Miami, Florida and with Medical Missions to the Dominican Republic and Haiti.