13 July, 2013
NEW YORK, New York. – Early this month, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) became a member of the Clinton Global Initiative (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.
Membership allows leaders to attend the CGI Annual Meeting, an event for top leaders from around the world, which will be held in New York this year from September 23 – 26.
In 2005, BRA partnered with the then Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, Unites States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Health to develop the country’s first HIV/AIDS prevention and antiretroviral treatment program for vulnerable and impoverished people living with HIV/AIDS inside impoverished sugarcane plantations rural communities known as “batey” In 2011, BRA successfully completed two CGI Commitments to Action, providing skills training and microcredit to 150 Haitian women in Haiti, and delivering clean water and comprehensive health and HIV/AIDS care and education to 2,300 families in the Dominican Republic.
About the Clinton Global Initiative
Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an initiative of Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. CGI Annual Meetings have brought together more than 150 heads of state, 20 Nobel Prize laureates, and hundreds of leading CEOs, heads of foundations and NGOs, major philanthropists, and members of the media. To date CGI members have made more than 2,300 commitments, which are already improving the lives of more than 400 million people in over 180 countries. When fully funded and implemented, these commitments will be valued at $73.5 billion.
CGI also convenes CGI America, a meeting focused on collaborative solutions to economic recovery in the United States, and CGI University (CGI U), which brings together undergraduate and graduate students to address pressing challenges in their community or around the world, and, this year, CGI Latin America, which will bring together Latin American leaders to identify, harness, and strengthen ways to improve the livelihoods of people in Latin America and around the world. For more information, visit clintonglobalinitiative.org and follow us on Twitter @ClintonGlobal and Facebook at facebook.com/clintonglobalinitiative.
