Batey Relief Alliance incorporates “faith-based community organizing” in women empowerment work.
SANTO DOMINGO.—Since its first launching in 2018, the BRA Women’s Empowerment Initiative addressed gender inequality within Dominican Republic’s vulnerable rural communities using a holistic approach by providing women micro loans and skills training, complemented by access to maternal-child health and HIV care, clean drinking water, nutrition, micronutrients and preventive health education in water, sanitation and …