07 May, 2013
SANTO DOMINGO. – The founder and CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance, Ulrick Gaillard, was named on Monday, May 6, 2013 President of the Dominican Republic’s Lions Club Arroyo Hondo Santo Domingo (Club de Leones Arroyo Hondo Santo Domingo). Mr. Gaillard will officially take position of the one-year volunteer post on July 1, 2013.
The Lions Club Arroyo Hondo Santo Domingo is part of the Chicago-based Lions Clubs International organization that has for mission empowering volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs.
Mr. Gaillard has been a pivotal actor strategically positioning the club within the highly competitive Lions organization and to international donors and partners to build in record time two modern medical facilities inside Dominican’s sugarcane plantations rural “batey” communities delivering comprehensive health services and medicines and HIV/AIDS treatment to 35,000 people annually; and to prevent blindness among and distribute thousands of eyeglasses to vulnerable and impoverished children and their families in the country’s urban and rural slums. The impressive track record of the club earned it in 2012 the recognition of being “…the most active Lions club within the Dominican Republic.”
Mr. Gaillard will be joined by a team of officers including Dr. Ana Celia Carrero, President-Affiliation, Virtudes Berroa, First Vice President, Gloria Basora, Second Vice President, Elis Cepeda, Secretary, and Migdalia Montilla, Treasurer.
