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USAID collaborates with Batey Relief Alliance to distribute food to quake-affected Haiti’s border regions.

USAID collaborates with Batey Relief Alliance to distribute food to quake-affected Haiti’s border regions. 13 December, 2010

New York, N.Y. – With a grant of $358,000 and technical assistance from the USAID’s Food for Peace Office, the Batey Relief Alliance, over a one-year period, is scheduled to distribute 93.8 metric tons of food to 12,800 food-insecure and vulnerable Haitians in the Southeast border regions of Haiti, including pregnant women, people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans/vulnerable children and internally-displaced people in the communes of Anse-a-Pitres, Thiotte and Grand Gosier. A similar program will also be implemented inside the Dominican Republic’s bateyes.