SANTO DOMINGO, D.R. – Ulrick Gaillard, CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is scheduled to travel to the Republic of Haiti on February 12th to meet with the country’s Minister of Health, Dr. Alex Larsen and elected and health officials from the Southeast Department to discuss his organization’s long-term plans, within Haiti’s national recovery/reconstruction …
NEW YORK. – Amid destruction, resulting from a 7.0-magnitude powerful earthquake that hard hit Haiti on January 12th, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is already putting in place a collaborative relief effort to address immediate needs of the country’s population. Click HERE for more details. Help for Haiti BRA’s CEO, Ulrick Gaillard said that his …
The situation: HAITI was hard hit by a 7.0 earthquake, 10 miles from the capital, Port-au-Prince where close to half of its 9-million population lives. In the capital, it is reported that thousands of buildings and shacks have been destroyed; bodies laid on the streets; and panic all over the place. For more details click …
NEW YORK, January 1, 2010. – The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is launching two new programs addressing socio-economic needs of populations living in extreme poverty in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Last year, BRA received $2.5 million from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to …
PIANTINI, Santo Domingo, D.R. – During its recently-held annual board meeting in the state of Rhode Island, the Batey Relief Alliance’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the organization’s 2010 budget of $5.7 million to carry out humanitarian work in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the United States. “BRA will implement various important projects in the …
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The United States Department of Agriculture donated $2 million to the Batey Relief Alliance to improve agricultural training, production and marketing, and planning more profitable crops inside Dominican Republic’s agricultural batey communities. BRA’s international assistance grant falls under USDA’s Food for Progress Program and will support agricultural and rural development, while …
Dear friends, This year is my first message to you, asking on this important occasion to join members of our Boards of Directors, our staff, our partners, and me to celebrate the twelfth-year anniversary of our organization, The Batey Relief Alliance, created on October 23, 1997. THE BATEY RELIEF ALLIANCE (BRA) was founded in the …
QUITO, Ecuador. – Batey Relief Alliance’s CEO, Ulrick Gaillard left on October 10th the organization’s home base in New York for Ecuador’s capital Quito where he attended a series of USAID-sponsored workshops and meetings with non-profit leaders from Latin America interested in addressing issues of Women’s Economic Empowerment, HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention, Human Trafficking, Democracy …
