23 October, 2013
NEW YORK. – Founded on October 23, 1997 in the state of New York as a non-profit, non-governmental, humanitarian aid organization, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is committed to addressing socio-economic and health needs of children and their families severely affected by extreme poverty, disease and hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean.
For the past sixteen years, BRA joined memberships of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), United Nations DPI Section and the Global Health Council; raised more than $80 million; recruited hundreds of volunteers; and created strategic partnerships with local governments, grassroots groups and international agencies, including the US Agency for International Development (USAID), US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to develop programs in health and HIV/AIDS, food security, women empowerment, water and sanitations, blindness prevention, education and disaster relief—improving the health and lives of more than 1.6 million people living in 268 vulnerable and impoverished communities in the United States, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Peru.
BRA’s programs serve all people, regardless of their race, gender, creed, national origin, religion or political affiliations – and are executed in areas where public services are scarce, including Dominican Republic’s sugarcane plantations rural “batey” communities, Haiti’s border regions and Peru’s urban slums. BRA ensures that people living with HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis have access to comprehensive health services, essential medicines and antiretroviral therapy; pregnant and nursing women and children receive micronutrients and antiworm medications; local farmers are trained and provided with resources to produce their own crops and animals; community health promoters are organized to educate entire communities about health crises prevention and techniques; while women receive skills training and microcredit to start new businesses.
For any questions about this release, please contact bra@bkreative.net. To learn more about BRA’s work, like on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Batey.Relief.Alliance; follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bateyrelief; and visit www.bateyrelief.org.
