Caridad Miranda, 53, photographed in her home with some of her family members and the laundry from her youngest grandchildren, lives with her husband, eight children and eight grandchildren. She studied theater at the prestigious "Instituto Superior de Arte" and has been a singer and actor, even performing in several Cuban movies. "The hardest thing in my life right now is our housing situation because there are just too many people living here and not enough food. We gets food rations but it's not enough for all of us." Of Cuban women, she says "being a Cuban woman means being everything for one's family."