SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic. – The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) received this past week high praises from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). According to Margie Bauer, the agency’s Attaché for the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica, “BRA executed a US $2 million agricultural community development project using USDA Food for Progress funding. BRA is …
SANTO DOMINGO. – The founder and CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance, Ulrick Gaillard, was named on Monday, May 6, 2013 President of the Dominican Republic’s Lions Club Arroyo Hondo Santo Domingo (Club de Leones Arroyo Hondo Santo Domingo). Mr. Gaillard will officially take position of the one-year volunteer post on July 1, 2013. The …
NEW YORK, New York. – The founder and CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance Dominicana, Ulrick Gaillard, joins the rank of Dominican personality, investigative journalist and television producer Nuria Piera, to receive from the Rotary Club of New York Rotary International’s prestigious honor—Paul Harris award. The ceremony was held on April 29, 2013 at the …
SANTO DOMINGO, D.R. – As part of its Blindness Prevention program in the Dominican Republic, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) joins forces with the Student Volunteer Optometrists for Service of Humanity of the New England College of Optometry—SVOSH-NECO to bring 17 students and faculty to deliver critical eye care to 1,200 poor children and adults …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Batey Relief Alliance (BRA DOMINICANA) launched a Food Assistance Program valued at $576,440.00, through which, 150 metric tons of dehydrated food will be distributed to over 22,700 people in eleven provinces of the Dominican Republic. Mrs. Whitney Jensen Rodrigues, USAID Program …
Dear friend, Not long ago, we have informed you of our fundraising campaign called—Help BRA build that Clinic and save more lives—launched this past July to raise US $100,000 to build a new medical clinic inside one of the Dominican Republic’s most impoverished and vulnerable deep rural communities in the province Monte Plata—Batey Cinco Casas …
MONTE PLATA, Dominican Republic, August 28, 2012. – After days of unrelenting rain and heavy flooding, the devastation from Hurricane Isaac left behind 11 deaths, hundreds of homes severely affected and more than 100 communities under water. Bridges were also collapsed, crops destroyed and more than 25,000 people displaced without electricity. The province of Monte …
