14 July, 2014
NEW YORK, July 11, 2014. – The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) recently renewed the membership of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) to participate at its Annual Meeting—a community of international leaders committed to identifying groundbreaking solutions that reduce poverty, improve the environment, and increase access to health care and education around the world.
Membership allows leaders to attend the CGI Annual Meeting, an event for top leaders from around the world, which will be held in New York this year from September 21 – 24. BRA’s founder and CEO, Ulrick Gaillard, is expected to attend the meeting.
In 2005, BRA partnered with the then Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI), Unites States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Health to develop one of the country’s first HIV/AIDS prevention and antiretroviral treatment programs for vulnerable and impoverished people living with HIV/AIDS inside impoverished sugarcane plantations rural communities known as “bateyes”. Since 2011, BRA successfully executed three CGI Commitment to Actions, providing skills training and microcredit to 150 Haitian women in Haiti; delivering clean water and comprehensive health and HIV/AIDS care and education to 2,300 families in the Dominican Republic; and improving maternal-child health and malnutrition among 2,000 children and 450 pregnant and lactating women in Lima, Peru.
About the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, convenes global leaders to create and implement solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. CGI Annual Meetings have brought together more than 150 heads of state, 20 Nobel Prize laureates, and hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of foundations and NGOs, major philanthropists, and members of the media. To date, members of the CGI community have made more than 2,800 Commitments to Action, which are already improving the lives of more than 430 million people in over 180 countries. When fully funded and implemented, these commitments will be valued at $103 billion. GI also convenes CGI America, a meeting focused on collaborative solutions to economic recovery in the United States, and CGI University (CGI U), which brings together undergraduate and graduate students to address pressing challenges in their communities and around the world. For more information, visit clintonglobalinitiative.org and follow us on Twitter @ClintonGlobal and Facebook at facebook.com/clintonglobalinitiative.
