Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) and Procter & Gamble Company address water-borne diseases in Dominican Republic

P & G Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) program and BRA began distributing 4.5 million water purifier packets combined with personal care and household cleaning products aimed at reducing hygiene and skin-related illnesses among 13,440 people living in vulnerable and impoverished sugarcane plantation rural communities known as “bateyes” in Monte Plata province. MONTE PLATA, DOMINICAN