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 …
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 …
