Ulrick Gaillard

Businesses for Haitian women in border region of Haiti are thriving, thanks to USAID/BRA’s women economic empowerment initiative.

| April 2, 2012

ANSE-A-APITRES, Haiti. – As a part of Batey Relief Alliance’s USAID-funded holistic approach to sustainable community development, the organization recognizes the importance of economic intervention and empowerment of local and small-scale women workforce. BRA and its main local partner, Fonkoze (Haiti’s largest, most innovative microfinance institution, committed to alleviating poverty through microfinance and education) have …

Poor Dominican rural communities empowered through Agricultural Cooperative

| March 3, 2012

BATEY CINCO CASAS, Monte Plata province, D.R.- During a General Assembly held on February 25, 2012, hundreds of members from the BRAteyana Agricultural Cooperative gathered to vote on a new managing board and hear the cooperative’s operating plan for the calendar year 2012-13. The BRAteyana—the first major agricultural cooperative of its kind inside the Dominican’s …

More than 2,500 Haitian women organized denouncing their poor living conditions in the border regions with the Dominican Republic and the inactions of the authorities.

| February 24, 2012

THIOTTE, Haiti. – Since 2010, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) committed to organizing women’s groups in the Southeast border regions and helping them to identify and address issues of concern to local, regional and national elected representatives. Through a three-year USAID-funded Development Grants—Women Empowerment project, BRA facilitates more than 800 women with skills training and …

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

| February 17, 2012

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.

| February 11, 2012

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.

| February 11, 2012

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.

| January 10, 2012

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 …