Ulrick Gaillard

BRA’s fight against AIDS includes distribution of condoms.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic. A catchy bachata tittled “Amor de Batey,” also the theme song of a mini-telenovela depicting the story of a batey couple, is part of PSI’s (Population Services International) latest collaborative project to reduce STDs and HIV/AIDS in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic. To carry out this project, PSI is teaming

BRA’S WORK IN HIV/AIDS RECOGNIZED.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, July 30, 2006. Since 2005, the Batey Relief Alliance developed, in collaboration with the USAID, Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Dominican Ministry of Health’s Digecitts, a comprehensive HIV/AIDS project delivering free testing, medical consults, medical services, ARVs, pre and post psychoemotional assistance, nutrition and clothing for impoverished AIDS sufferers, orphaned/vulnerable children

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,