11 August, 2004
The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA Dominicana) now opens its 2005 calendar year of activities offering partnership opportunities to qualified volunteer mission groups wishing to travel to the Dominican Republic providing free and basic medical, eye or/and dental care to the poor and needy languishing in the bateyes, urban/rural slums or frontier areas with Haiti.
Groups (15 to 30 people) interested in a mission trip must contact BRA at least 3 months before the first day of the mission. You choose your own dates. The five to ten-day mission trip offers a unique opportunity to foreign health care providers, specialists and students around the world to work alongside local health professionals delivering culturally-oriented life saving care and health crisis prevention education/training to those living in extreme poverty under sub-basic conditions.
BRA?s experienced staff will help arrange the entire mission agenda for the group with basic lodging, meals and ground transportation ? set up secured clinic areas ? mobilize the recipient populations ? and secure medical practice and customs clearances inside the country.
Each group must bring its own medicines, medical supplies and portable equipment needed to provide care during the mission. BRA may contribute additional assistance in supplies if available.
Groups? participants will receive individual tax-exempt credit for covering their air travel, lodging, meals and ground transportation costs. BRA charges each group a registration deposit of $75 per participant to cover its own costs of logistics and administration in setting up the mission.
For more details about the BRA and its sponsored mission trips, please contact Ulrick Gaillard at bra@bkreative.net or (917) 627-5026. You may visit our website at www.bateyrelief.org.
