JEAN-CLAUDE Jean-Claude Delinua, an immigrant from Haiti, came to the Dominican Republic 11 years ago to cut sugar cane. In March, after he had been sick for 8 months, his HIV-infected neighbor, Yasaira Calpio, told the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) about him. When BRA workers first visited his tiny shed, he was confined to this …
YASAIRA Yasaira Calpio, 28, lives in this one-room shack in Gonzalo Municipality in the Dominican Republic, an area near Monte Plata that has endless hectares of old sugar cane fields that have gone to weed. A mother of three, Calpio last year learned that she had become infected with HIV; fortunately, she had a doctor …
JEAN MICHEL Jean Michel came to BRA’s clinic at Batey Cojobal for the first time in February 2006 with Yahaira, one of BRA’s community-based health promoters, and tested positive for HIV. He was losing weight rapidly and was sick with parasites. To get to Jean Michel’s house, Chitra Akileswaran, another BRA volunteer, and I climbed …
NEW YORK, United Sates, July 12, 2006. The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations of the Department of Public Information (DPI) at the United Nations met on 7 July 2006 to consider new applications from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for association with the DPI. We are pleased to inform you that the Committee approved the Batey Relief Alliance …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, July 24, 2006. After an exhibition that attracted dozens of art collectors and lovers, world famed Haitian artist Lyonel Lorenceau met with BRA to discuss the organization’s humanitarian effort. Present at the meeting was BRA Dominicana’s Board member, Miguel Puente, Directora Ejecutiva, Maria Virtudes Berroa, and Chief Executive Officer, Ulrick Gaillard. Mr. Lorenceau explained his …
Since 2003, the Batey Relief Alliance, through its regional arm inside the Dominican Republic, the BRA Dominicana, delivered permanent health and HIV/AIDS care and social services inside the bateyes of the Dominican Republic through its 30-foot, fully-equipped mobile clinic (stationed at batey Cojobal) and a network of community-based health promoters. BRA’s health services are highly …
The Overseas Child Sponsorship (OCS) is a program designed by the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) to provide concerned individuals with the opportunity to help improve basic living conditions for children affected by disease, poverty or hunger in the Caribbean. Jhensi Duran, in the picture, is only two years old and already underwent last year a …
The Overseas Medical Sponsorship (OMS) is a program created by the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) and the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad (AMHE) to provide interested health care professionals, individuals or organizations in the United States and Canada with the unique opportunity to help ensure the professional service of young and highly-motivated local physicians, medical …
