06 May, 2014
SANTO DOMINGO. – Batey Relief Alliance’s founder, Ulrick Gaillard, met today with father and Jesuit, Mario Serrano to discuss challenges facing the most vulnerable and impoverished populations living in the Dominican Republic, mainly those living in sugarcane plantations rural communities known as “bateyes”.
As part of Batey Relief Alliance’s humanitarian mission, Gaillard offered father Serrano support, under his organization’s nutrition and maternal-child health programs, food for elderly sugarcane cutters who are retired, undocumented, nutritionally at-risk and without a pension; and micronutrients and Antiparasitic medicines to pregnant women and children living in batey Mamey, Municipal Guerra, Santo Domingo province.
Batey Relief Alliance’s maternal-child health program serves 62,000 children and 8,000 pregnant/lactating women while its food security program delivers food to 20,700 people in the Dominican Republic.
