Ulrick Gaillard
Help BRA build that Clinic and save more lives!
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 …
Batey Relief Alliance delivers emergency aid to thousands affected by hurricane Isaac in DR
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 …
Batey Relief Alliance climbs Peru’s high mountains to save forgotten children
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 …
Dominican Republic recognizes the humanitarian work of the Batey Relief Alliance
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 …
Batey Relief Alliance commits to Clinton Global Initiative to improve conditions in Haiti and Dominican Republic
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 …
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees signs cooperation agreement with Batey Relief Alliance
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 …
Batey Relief Alliance signs agreement with Partners in Health—expanding food assistance in other needy communities of Haiti
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 …
