STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE: Haitians and Dominican Haitians endure constant hardship in rural Dominican Republic bateyes. Photo Essay by Aldo Martinez, Jr.
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Ulrick Gaillard
DONATIONS NEEDED URGENTLY OF FOLLOWING ITEMS – PLEASE CLICK HERE TO HELP.
The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) thanks you for donating items from the list below to help children and families with HIV/AIDS and others severely affected by disease, poverty or hunger in the bateyes of the Dominican Repubic. The BRA is a tax-exempt, 501c3, organization registered with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). All donations to …
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Kansas City, Missouri ? The Executive Director of the Batey Relief Alliance, Ulrick Gaillard, presented on October 2, 2004 a lifetime Honorary Board Membership to Dominican born baseball manager of the Kansas City Royals, Tony Peña. The plaque reads: For setting distinguished leadership examples for others to follow. ?I am honored to be part of …
BRA SENDS LETTER TO DR PRESIDENT-ELECT ON BATEY ISSUES.
July 15, 2004 Dr. Leonel Fernández Reina President of the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Distinguished Doctor Fernández, It is with pleasure that we extend our congratulations to you and your political party for the success accomplished during the recent presidential elections. We also take this opportunity to express to you our concern vis-à-vis …
LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION GRANTS BRA $75,000 TOWARDS BUILDING BATEYES’ FIRST MEDICAL CENTER.
New York City, US ? The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is awarded $75,0000 by the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) to renovate/build the bateyes? first medical center at Batey Cinco Casas in the region of Monte Plata, Dominican Republic. The Dominican?s State Sugar Council (CEA) ? a key partner to the BRA ? contributed another …
BRA OFFERS HEALTH CARE MISSION TRIP OPPORTUNITIES TO THE DR
The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA Dominicana) now opens its 2005 calendar year of activities offering partnership opportunities to qualified volunteer mission groups wishing to travel to the Dominican Republic providing free and basic medical, eye or/and dental care to the poor and needy languishing in the bateyes, urban/rural slums or frontier areas with Haiti. Groups …
BRA?s ?I can see!? Blindness Prevention Program reaches the slums of Santo Domingo.
As part of its Blindness Prevention Program, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is dispatching on September 4th a team of twenty volunteer eyecare specialists and students from the University of Ohio College of Optometry?s Student Volunteers of Optometric Services to Humanity (SVOSH) to the slums (Los Mina) of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on a seven-day …
PHILADELPHIA PREPARES BENEFIT CONCERT FOR BRA’S FLOOD RELIEF EFFORTS
New York, USA ? Members of several prestigious symphony orchestras around the country are coming together to Philadelphia on July 25th, 2004 to give a benefit concert supporting the Batey Relief Alliance?s flood relief efforts in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. ?This is such a great honor for the Batey Relief Alliance to be part …