ANSE-A-PITRES, Haiti. – In 2009, under a Development Grants Program (DGP), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) became the first major donor to fund a women’s empowerment project within three Southeastern border communes of Haiti (Anse-a-Pitres, Thiotte and Grand Gosier) for the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) to organize and train 600 Haitian women …
PIANTINI, S.D. – James Watson, Acting Director of USAID in the Dominican Republic visited today the Batey Relief Alliance’s headquarters in Santo Domingo where he met with the organization’s CEO, Ulrick Gaillard and other senior BRA personnel. Mr. Watson discussed the humanitarian contribution of the BRA to the Dominican Republic and Haiti and the strong …
NEW YORK, March 8th. – The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) joins others around the world to celebrate the International Women’s Day with activities planned by the organization in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. BRA’s CEO, Ulrick Gaillard is scheduled to travel to Haiti this Thursday to commemorate the occasion with dozens of women in Southeast …
BATEY COJOBAL, Monte Plata province, D.R. – February 3, 2011. – As part of its continuing effort to improve living conditions inside deep rural vulnerable batey communities in the Dominican Republic, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) collaborated with the Presbyterian Church-USA’s Committee for Self-Development of People (SDOP) to install three new water systems inside Batey …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ulrick Gaillard, BRA’s CEO travels to Washington D.C. tomorrow morning for a one-day visit with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officials to discuss the progress and success of the organization’s current agricultural/cooperative initiative, under a USDA-funded Food for Progress program, being developed inside …
NEW YORK, New York. – Earlier this month, the office of President Bill Clinton invited Ulrick Gaillard, founder/CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) to become member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)—a community of international leaders committed to identifying groundbreaking solutions that reduce poverty, improve the environment, and increase access to health care and …
ANSE-A-PITRES, Haiti. – Fourteen years ago when the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) launched its first international aid mission targeting the Dominican Republic’s sugarcane plantations rural “bateys”, it was to reactivate these communities via delivering the highest quality health services to medically-deprived and economically-disenfranchised populations plagued by extreme poverty, disease and hunger. Today, through BRA’s comprehensive …
ANSE-A-PITRES, Haiti. – The deadly cholera epidemic has now expanded into Haiti’s southeastern border regions of Haiti. The commune of Anse-a-Pitres, where BRA operates the only medical clinic in the area, has confirmed more than 30 cases, and, that at least 10 patients per day arrive at the medical facility seeking emergency assistance. “The situation …
