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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
MONTE PLATA, DR, December 14, 2011. – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) launched for the fifth consecutive year a Food Security Program by which, 243.88 metric tons of food will be distributed 25,600 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. This program, funded by USAID’s Food for …
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