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 …
NEW YORK. – After more than fourteen years implementing life-saving projects of health and HIV/AIDS, food security/agriculture, water/sanitations, education and disaster relief in the Dominican Republic’s impoverished and vulnerable sugarcane plantations rural “batey” communities and Haiti’s isolated border regions, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) now seeks to climb some of the highest mountains of Peru …
PIANTINI, SD. – Charlie Mariotti, Senator of Monte Plata province, sponsored a resolution in 2010 for the Dominican Republic Senate to recognize the humanitarian work of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA). Since 1997, BRA invested more than $65 million in various key programs and projects of food security/agriculture, health/HIV/AID, water/sanitation, education and disaster relief, benefitting …
NEW YORK, N.Y. – After becoming a member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in 2011, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) launched two Commitments to Action to improve living conditions in impoverished and vulnerable communities of Haiti and Dominican Republic (DR). In 2011, BRA partnered with Haiti-based microcredit NGO, FONKOZE, to expand women empowerment activities …
PIANTINI, Santo Domingo. – On June 8, 2012, the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed a cooperation agreement with the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA Dominicana) for the development of several humanitarian projects in the Dominican Republic’s province of Monte Plata with the generous contribution of $120,000 from the European Union. Mr. Gonzalo Vargas Llosa, head …
BELLADERE, Haiti. – As part of its effort to feed populations that are vulnerable and nutritionally-at-risk in Haiti, Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) secured from USAID’s Food for Peace Office-International Food Relief Partnership funding and 150 metric tons of dehydrated food (Breedlove Harvest Lentil Pro – Product Code 404) to be distributed in collaboration with Haiti-based …
Dear friends: Not long ago, we’ve sent you an email regarding a new medical clinic the Batey Relief Alliance is building to deliver critical health and HIV/AIDS services to the impoverished people of the Dominican Republic. Our current medical center, located inside batey Cinco Casas in the province of Monte Plata, is over capacitated as …
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. – During a five-day visit to the Caribbean island nation of Haiti from April 22-27, Ulrick Gaillard met with various elected officials, including Senate President Simon Desras, Senator Francky Exius, and Députés Rossini Jean Pierre and Patrick Robasson, former Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, members of the civil …
