Ulrick Gaillard

BRA empowers young people in DR sugarcane plantations rural “batey” communities.

BATEY CINCO CASAS, Monte Plata. – Batey Relief Alliance / BRA Dominicana implemented the “Youth in Development” project, through which, it collaborated with the local Peace Corps to take actions to build the capacity of young people through sports, technical/employment kills training, and preventive health crisis education. Five Peace Corps volunteers were involved in selecting

Marquette University to help develop BRA’s cooperative-agricultural production in Dominican Republic.

MONTE PLATA, Dominican Republic. – A team of 14 students and faculty from departments of Economics and International Business and Marketing at Marquette University’s Global Business Learning will travel to the Dominican Republic from March 11-18 to provide technical assistance and set up training workshops in a partnership effort to help the Batey Relief Alliance

BRA partners with New England College of Optometry to bring free vision care and eyeglasses to bateyes’ most impoverished.

MONTE PLATA, Dominican Republic. – As part of its Blindness Prevention program, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is joining forces with student chapter of the Volunteer Optometric for Services of Humanity (VOSH) to deliver free critical eye care and glasses to 1500 children and adults with eye problems, in need of a pair of glasses,

Two years post Haiti’s deadly earthquake, Haitian women in remote border villages economically empowered.

ANSE-A-PITRES, Haiti. – Since the tragic earthquake of January 2010 that killed more than 300,000 people and left 1.2 million homeless, sick and hungry, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) concentrated its efforts in Haiti’s most geographically and economically isolated rural areas in Southeastern border communes of Anse-a-Pitres, Thiotte and Grand Gosier. With funding from the

Give The Gift Of Health This Holiday Season!

Can’t find that perfect gift? How about giving the gift of health? The Batey Relief Alliance offers a cost-effective way, away from stores’ hustles, and private into your quiet home environment, to support one of our many life-saving projects, while knowing that your tax-deductible dollar gift will save a precious life. This year, we delivered

USAID y Batey Relief Alliance lanzan Programa sobre Seguridad de Alimentos para Beneficiar a la República Dominicana y a Haití

MONTE PLATA – La Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID) y Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) [Alianza para Ayuda a los Bateyes] lanzaron por quinto año consecutivo el Programa sobre Seguridad de Alimentos a través del cual se distribuirán 243.88 toneladas métricas de alimentos, valorados en RD$35 millones, entre 25,600 personas en

Batey Relief Alliance reaches new milestone at 14th-year anniversary.

NEW YORK. – The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) celebrates on October 23rd, 2011 14th-year anniversary addressing the socio-economic and health needs for children and their families severely affected by extreme poverty, disease and hunger in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, through health, education, community development and disaster relief programs. “We will also celebrate, proudly, BRA’s