NEW YORK. – Through a grant of $15,000.00 from The International Foundation, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) will deliver critical health and HIV/AIDS services, critical medicines and education to 20,000 people who are vulnerable, impoverished and medically at risk living in various Dominican Republic’s sugarcane plantations rural “batey” communities, in the Monte Plata region. According …
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The offices of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) announce that at its January 2014 meeting, the United Nations Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations approved the Batey Relief Alliance, Inc. as an accredited NGO in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Consultative status provides NGOs like BRA with access not only …
Elias Piña, Dominican Republic, January 27, 2014. – Under its Food Security Program, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) partnered with Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Agriculture to launch a new agricultural initiative that strengthens production capacity for local farmers living in rural border regions. Funded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the one-year initiative seeks …
LIMA, Peru. – From January 19 through 25, 2014, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) will facilitate a dental operative in Lima, Peru. The President of the organization’s Board of Directors, Dr. Thomas Beague, a licensed dentist, will lead a dental mission team from the United States that will provide free dental care, including oral examinations, …
Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) endeavors to improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable and marginalized populations living in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Peru. A major focus of this endeavor is to provide quality health services, in order to improve the condition of public health of those affected by extreme poverty, disease and …
BROOKLYN, New York, January 8, 2014. – The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) received a grant of $10,000.00 from The Marvin and Sylvia Rubin Family Foundation to support its new maternal-child project in Peru. Through a 2013 Commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)—Improving Malnutrition and Maternal Health in Lima—starting January 2014, BRA will scale up …
MONTE PLATA. – In October, the Canadian-born actor/director and former superstar TV show Beverly Hills 90210, Jason Priestley, travelled to the Dominican Republic with the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) to deliver water purifier sachets to children and their families in need in the bateyes and see firsthand how clean drinking water changes lives. “We had …
MONTE PLATA. – For the past nine years, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) has partnered with the New England College of Optometry (NECO) from Boston, to conduct annual optometry operatives to benefit thousands of children and their families living impoverished and vulnerable communities throughout the Dominican Republic, who otherwise go without access to such preventive …
