11 July, 2011
New York, N.Y. – On Monday, July 25, Batey Relief Alliance’s founder and CEO, Ulrick Gaillard begins a visit to Haiti. The 2-day trip is to participate in a Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)-Haiti Action Network’s meeting. Last January, Gaillard became a member of the CGI—a community of international leaders committed to identifying groundbreaking solutions that reduce poverty, improve the environment, and increase access to health care and education around the world.
In Haiti, Gaillard is also scheduled to meet with the country’s Prime Minister, Max Bellerive, former Prime Ministers Jacques Edouard Alexis and Michele Pierre-Louis, Minister of the Haitian Diaspora, Edwin Paraison and high-ranking members of the Haitian Senate.
Gaillard seeks to highlight the high-impact projects (Women’s Empowerment, Food Security, Health and Water/sanitation) his organization is implementing in Haiti’s economically-deprived Southeastern border region, including the communes of Anse-a-Pitres, Thiotte and Grand-Gosier. On January 11, 2010, Gaillard signed an agreement with Haiti’s Minister of Health, whereby providing BRA full control, operation and management duties over the government’s medical facility located in the commune of Anse-a-Pitres. The center is now delivering critical health services and free medicines to local residents.
Gaillard is expected to re-affirm the commitment of BRA to continue working side-by-side with government agencies, local groups, as well as international institutions to improve living conditions for children and their families severely affected by extreme poverty, disease and hunger in vulnerable and impoverished communities of Haiti.
Gaillard then travels to the Dominican Republic where BRA executes a number of projects in health, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, agriculture/cooperative, food security, water/sanitation and child’s health/deworming.
