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 …
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 …
Dear friends: Not long ago, we’ve sent you an email regarding a new medical clinic the Batey Relief Alliance is building to deliver critical health and HIV/AIDS services to the impoverished people of the Dominican Republic. Our current medical center, located inside batey Cinco Casas in the province of Monte Plata, is over capacitated as …
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. – During a five-day visit to the Caribbean island nation of Haiti from April 22-27, Ulrick Gaillard met with various elected officials, including Senate President Simon Desras, Senator Francky Exius, and Députés Rossini Jean Pierre and Patrick Robasson, former Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, members of the civil …
MONTE PLATA, D.R. – Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) and Direct Relief International (DRI) agree to collaborate in a 2012 Hurricane Preparedness Module Program, which would pre-position for BRA critically-needed medicines and medical supplies in order to enable the immediate treatment of vulnerable populations in the event a hurricane or other natural or civil disaster should …
NEW YORK, April 19, 2012 – Early in April, Ulrick Gaillard, founder/CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) was invited to join the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) – a program of the United Nations Foundation with a membership of more than 12,000 active members in over 120 chapters and …
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 …
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 …
