Ulrick Gaillard

Batey Relief Alliance and Association of United Nations-DR co-sponsored leadership training for Batey youths.

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

Batey Relief Alliance receives funding for AIDS Education in Brooklyn

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

Hurricane Dean is blamed for at least 11 deaths in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and the island of Dominica.

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

STATE OF THE BATEY RELIEF ALLIANCE IN 2007

BATEY RELIEF ALLIANCE Celebrating 10 Years of Success in the Dominican Republic The Batey Relief Alliance—BRA celebrates on October 23rd, 2007, ten years of humanitarian services for children and families severely affected by poverty, disease and hunger in the Caribbean, particularly those suffering inside the bateyes, rural slums, and urban barrios of the Dominican Republic.

The Batey Relief Alliance helps strengthen DR effort to combat HIV/AIDS.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, July 12, 2007 – The Director of the Presidential AIDS Council—COPRESIDA, Dr. Umberto Salazar and the Director of the General Directorate for Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS—DIGECITTS, Dr. Angel Almánzar, held high-level meetings with key officials of the Batey Relief Alliance/BRA Dominicana to discuss cooperation between the three institutions