Monte Plata, Dominican Republic – January 30, 2008. – Hundreds of people gathered in the municipality of Monte Plata to celebrate the opening of the “National Year for Health Promotion,” during which a ceremony and parade were carried out through the town. BRA Dominicana (BRA) led the march with the Provincial Department of Health and …
NEW YORK, New York, February 9, 2008. – As part of its Blindness Prevention program, the Batey Relief Alliance is partnering with the SVOSH of the New England College of Optometry to bring 20 students and faculty to deliver critical eye care and glasses to 1500 children and adults with eye problems, in need of …
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. – The Prime Minister of Haiti, Jacques Edouard Alexis, received in his office on January 18th the Batey Relief Alliance’s Founder/CEO, Ulrick Gaillard and a delegation of the organization’s senior Board of Directors, including Dr. Thomas Beague, Sara Beague and Dr. Raymond Thertulien. The purpose for the high level meeting was to brief …
The Batey Relief Alliance is currently recruiting groups wishing to carry out five working-day mission trips to serve children and families severely affected by poverty, disease and hunger in the Dominican Republic’s impoverished urban/rural slum or batey (sugar cane plantations) communities. Activities may include delivering short-term medical, eye, or disaster relief assistance, repairing or building …
WASHINGTON, DC. – On a three-hour train ride that started on the early cold morning of December 12th, the Batey Relief Alliance’s CEO, Ulrick Gaillard, left his Brooklyn base at 3:00am to arrive on time at the New York’s Penn Station to catch the Amtrak train at 5:30am bound for Washington DC with one goal …
NEW YORK, New York. – The Riverside Church’s Sharing Fund Committee awarded a grant of $5,000 to help support the Batey Relief Alliance’s life-saving malnutrition prevention program inside the bateyes of the Dominican Republic. The three-year program, supported by the Vitamin Angel Alliance, targets 55,000 children to receive daily multivitamins and twice-a-year antiparasitic medicines. The …
BROOKLYN, New York. – Through the support of Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs of the Brooklyn’s 42nd A.D., the New York State Department of Health’s AIDS Institute awarded a second grant of $10,000 to help the Batey Relief Alliance educate the heavily immigrant population about HIV/AIDS. “I am pleased to be part of this important project in …
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 …
