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. …
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 …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic. – Two evaluation teams from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Mailman School of Public Health carried out between 2006 and 2007 an independent process evaluation of the Batey Relief Alliance’s Primary Health Care services, HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment, and Health Promotion programs. The BRA has been …
Since 2007 the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) joined efforts with the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) to distribute tons of the Breedlove dehydrated lentil blend food product to thousands of food insecure and earthquake-affected people living in Haiti’s Southeast Department border communes of Anse-a-Pitres, Thiotte, Belle Anse and Grand Gosier and the Dominican …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The Batey Relief Alliance’s regional arm, BRA DOMINICANA, is hosting an evening presenting “The Humanitarian Work of BRA Dominicana” on Thursday, May 10 at 7 o’clock at the headquarters of the UNESCO. The organization will share for the first time with the Dominican mainstream society details of its humanitarian effort, …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic—Batey Relief Alliance’s regional arm, the BRA DOMINICANA is now a partner with the Presbyterian Church-USA Hunger Program allocating funds to provide desperately needed food assistance to 1700 AIDS sufferers, vulnerable/orphaned children and women living inside the bateyes of the Dominican Republic. The effort targets the impoverished province of Monte Plata where …
BATEY CINCO CASAS, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic – In partnership with the Rotary Club Mirador in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA Dominicana) launched in December a new water project called “Saving Lives with Purified Water.” “The title of this project is no exaggeration, as in the bateyes, access to clean water …
BATEY COJOBAL, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic – On January 23rd 2007, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA Dominicana) organized a full day of learning and fun for twenty-two children who are HIV-positive or live with a family member who has the virus. The children live in impoverished bateyes in the province of Monte Plata where basic …
