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 …
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 …
As part of its continuing flood relief intervention that started last month, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is sponsoring a GWUMC team of 20 volunteer medical specialists, public health students and faculty traveling from the United States to Hispaniola?s disaster flood areas. ?BRA?s flood relief intervention is carefully designed not to be duplicative, but to …
Jacobs joins the Batey Relief Alliance and Red Cross to provide assistance. Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs (D-Flatbush) has joined with the Batey Relief Alliance and the American Red Cross to assist victims of the recent devastating floods and landslides that have caused more than 2000 deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. ?I am deeply saddened …
More than 3,000 people have been killed ? 1,500 more still missing from a week-long floods and landslides that devastated Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Hundreds of unidentified corpses are being buried on a tiny island surrounded by crocodiles, others in shallow mass graves 3 to 4-feet deep. …
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Days of heavy rain have caused hundreds of deaths and destroyed homes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. At least 280 people have been killed, many of them swept away when rain-swollen rivers burst their banks, authorities in the neighboring Caribbean countries said on Tuesday. Other reports on the devastation …
BRA is looking for licensed volunteer health care professionals from the United States and Canada to work in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. If you are an internist, gynecologist, nurse, public health expert, optometrist, opthalmologist or a pediatrician, or medical administrator, you may apply by contacting Ulrick Gaillard at bra@bkreative.net or (917) 627-5026. The duration …
Preocupa Sida afecte 5% población bateyes La directora de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID), Elena Brineman, mostró anoche su preocupación por los resultados arrojados en la Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud (ENDESA 2002) en relación con la prevalencia de 5% de infección de SIDA entre los habitantes de los …
