Ulrick Gaillard

BRA’s Health Promoters received training in HIV/STI prevention.

About twenty-five Health Promoters affiliated with BRA participated in a daylong training organized by Population Services International (PSI). The town of Don Juan in the Monte Plata province was the meeting place for the promoters, and other local grass-roots organizations, which will collaborate in a nation-wide project aiming at increasing the correct and consistent use

The BRA discussed partnerships for Multivitamin project.

“It is not easy for the inhabitants of the bateyes and rural communities of the Dominican Republic to consume a balanced diet,” said BRA’s CEO, Ulrick Gaillard. Several complex factors contribute to this problem, which takes its heaviest toll on the children who need proper nutrition to fully develop mentally and physically. People in these

STATE OF THE BRA 2006

I. INTRODUCTION TO BRA’S HUMANITARIAN WORK BRA’s Institutional Model The Batey Relief Alliance—BRA was created in 1997 in the State of New York, United States, as a 501c3, tax-exempt, non-profit, humanitarian aid organization to address the socio-economic conditions of children and families severely affected by poverty, disease and hunger in the Caribbean. Toward that end,

BRA culminates project of arts and crafts for bateyes’ AIDS patients.

MONTE PLATA, Dominican Republic. Beautiful velones (candles), canvas bags, flower arrangements and kitchen towels are stored at BRA’s clinic in Batey Cinco Casas until their display in an open house to be held in the Monte Plata Province. These works of arts were carefully and patiently elaborated by men and women who are living with