Ulrick Gaillard

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 …

MONTE PLATA, Dominican Republic – December 1, 2010. – In the presence of hundreds of people gathered at the BRA’s Medical Center inside Batey Cinco Casas in the province of Monte Plata to celebrate World AIDS Day, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) presented the “True Partners Award” to three local organizations, including the Clinton HIV/AIDS …

Provincia Monte Plata, Rep. Dom. Diciembre 1, 2010. En un solemne acto de Conmemoración por el Día Mundial del SIDA en el Ayuntamiento Municipal de Sabana Grande de Boya del Municipio de este mismo nombre, en la provincia Monte Plata, a través del Consejo Municipal presidido por la Lic. Juana E. Coca, y a solicitud …

ANSE-A-PITRES, Haiti. – From November 13th through the 21st, a team of seven US-based medical professionals worked at BRA’s adopted medical clinic located in Haiti’s remote border commune of Anse-a-Pitres where they were joined by BRA local providers to deliver life-saving emergency medical attention to the population and to study a comprehensive effort to help …