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 …
NEW YORK, New York. – Batey Cinco Casas in the province of Monte Plata is the site chosen by the Batey Relief Alliance to celebrate its 10-year anniversary on October 23, 2007. More than 1000 people are expected to attend the festivities at the organization’s new medical center complex, including diplomatic, government and media officials, …
BROOKLYN, New York. – The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA Dominicana) is preparing a post hurricane relief operation inside the bateyes of the Dominican Republic’s province of Barahona delivering to the impoverished population emergency medical aid and medicines. “Our health team will assess the current health conditions among the most vulnerable, including children, pregnant women and …
