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 …
SANTO DOMINGO, D.R. – The Dominican Senate has passed a resolution to formally recognize the humanitarian work of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) in the Dominican Republic. Since 1998, BRA worked in some of the country’s most marginalized communities serving the most vulnerable. “We are truely honored by this great gesture. We thank all involved …
New York, N.Y. – With a grant of $358,000 and technical assistance from the USAID’s Food for Peace Office, the Batey Relief Alliance, over a one-year period, is scheduled to distribute 93.8 metric tons of food to 12,800 food-insecure and vulnerable Haitians in the Southeast border regions of Haiti, including pregnant women, people living with …
NEW YORK, N.Y. – As part of its continuing humanitarian intervention in the economically-isolated and medically-deprived Southeast border region of Haiti, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is scheduled to dispatch from January 2-9, 2011 a team of nine American dentists and assistants to deliver preventive dental care to impoverished children and their families living in …
