As we are preparing to celebrate the holidays with families and friends, thousands in the Dominican Republic are not so lucky. Little over a month after Tropical Storm Noel devastated their country, leaving over 87 dead and 62,000 displaced by severe flooding; another storm – Olga this past week killed 22 people, displaced 49,000, and …
Dear Friend of the Batey Relief Alliance, As you read this, thousands of children and families are struggling just to stay alive in Haiti’s most impoverished communities. But you can help them overcome their challenges and thrive … just as you’ve helped the residents of the Dominican Republic’s sugar cane bateyes. After ten years of …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic.- After days of unrelenting rain from Tropical storm Noel, the devastation left behind included 73 deaths, 43 other missing, thousands of houses destroyed, and more than 62,000 people driven out of their small homes. The president of the country, Leonel Fernandez, who declared a state of emergency on Wednesday night, asked …
NEW YORK, United States. – On October 23, 2007, the Batey Relief Alliance will officially grand open a modern medical facility to the service of poor children and families living in the bateyes and urban and rural localities of the Monte Plata region. The facility will also serve as the celebration site for the organization’s …
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, October 8, 2007. – Batey Relief Alliance’s CEO, Ulrick Gaillard, returned last week from a five-day visit to the Republic of Haiti to discuss with the Haitian government and other key international organizations the possibility for his organization to establish a permanent humanitarian mission in the economically-torn nation. “My conversations with the representatives …
Batey students selected to participate in the United Nations’ Model Conference in Santo Domingo. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Tuesday, September 25th, eleven students from batey Bosque Abajo in the province of Monte Plata, four females and seven males, gathered in the BRA’s Medical Center located inside Batey Cinco Casas for a workshop sponsored by …
NEW YORK, New York. – The New York Rotary Club’s Foundation has made a grant of $2400 to the Batey Relief Alliance to start a comprehensive water/sanitation program benefiting thirty impoverished families living in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic. The project will be coordinated in partnership with the DR-based Club Rotario Arroyo Hondo Santo …
BROOKLYN, New York.- The New York State Department of Health (DOH) made a one-year grant of $10,000 to the Brooklyn-based Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) to carry out HIV/AIDS awareness and education targeting Haitian immigrants and others living in the Brooklyn’s section of Flatbush. This is the second year BRA has received the funding through a …
