18 September, 2016
NEW YORK. – The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) featured the humanitarian work of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) in Haiti in the Opening Plenary Session at the 2016 Annual Meeting held in New York City on September 19, 2016. BRA’s founder and CEO, Ulrick Gaillard represented the Haiti Action Network (HAN) at the meeting where BRA’s commitment – Economic Empowerment – was selected as an exemplary approach to addressing critical challenges in Haiti. CGI hoped that the collective story of the HAN would inspire others to take action in Haiti, as well as share the story of the Network over the past eight years.
In 2011, BRA launched a CGI Commitment to Action in Haiti’s Southeast Department border region, providing skills training in finance, banking, community activism and healthcare to 850 women and microloans to 150 helping them to start new businesses and rebuild their shattered communities post the 2010 earthquake. Complementing the commitment’s activities was a USAID-funded food aid project that provided nutritious food products to 20,700 nutritionally and health at-risk Haitian families in the communes of Anse-a-Pitres, Thiotte and Grand Gozier. Through collaboration with Haiti’s Ministry of Health, BRA’s work also focused on preventive healthcare, food security, clean drinking water and disaster relief in additional areas of Haiti’s border, including Beladere.
Since BRA became a CGI member in 2011, the organization executed two additional commitments for the Dominican Republic and Peru; and participated in various CGI activities held in the United States as well in Brazil. Ulrick Gaillard addressed the 2014 Annual Meeting as a featured speaker.
Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. CGI Annual Meetings have brought together 190 sitting and former heads of state, more than 20 Nobel Prize laureates, and hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of foundations and NGOs, major philanthropists, and members of the media. To date, members of the CGI community have made more than 3,500 commitments, which have improved the lives of over 430 million people in more than 180 countries.
