SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic. – The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) completed its 2007 independent financial audit and is reporting a total public fundraising activity in the amount of $2,312,997.35, of which, $85,371 covered the organization’s administrative expenditures while $2,227,626.35 was spent to develop its programs and projects in the Dominican Republic.

The organization’s cash and in-kind donations are all U.S-based and come from the Batey Relief Alliance’s board of directors, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, Disciples of Christ’s Week of Compassion, Saint Joseph Foundation, International Foundation, New York Rotary Foundation, New Jersey Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center, Riverside Church of New York City, Penny Harvest Comment Cents, Presbyterian Church USA-Hunger Prevention Program, Union Hill Presbyterian Church, SVOSH University of Alabama, SVOSH New England College of Optometry, Vitamin Angel Alliance, Catholic Medical Mission Board, Direct Relief International, and individual contributors.

The Batey Relief Alliance delivered direct social and complete health/eye care and free medicines to 19,132 vulnerable people living inside the bateyes (vulnerable sugar cane plantations communities) in the province of Monte Plata. 55,000 children is now receiving multivitamins and antiparasitic medicines while another 80,000 adults and children received improved medical care and medicines through BRA’s medical donations to 26 grassroots and governmental organizations working in various urban barrios, border localities and rural slums around the country. And those who are living with HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis received free testing, education, antiretroviral treatment, nutrition and Biosand water filters.

For a copy of the Batey Relief Alliance’s 2007 complete financial audit or/and annual work report, please contact us at bra@bateyrelief.org or www.bateyrelief.org.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut. – Ulrick Gaillard, founder and CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance addressed on Saturday, April 12, 2008 an audience of hundreds of academicians, public health experts, students, and international aid workers and executives at the Unite For Sight 4th annual conference held at Yale University.

Gaillard, a trained attorney, presented about the ten-year work history of the Batey Relief Alliance in the Dominican Republic, the implications on the organization’s humanitarian intervention of the politically-charged issue of the illegalization of thousands of undocumented Haitian immigrant sugarcane workers and their undocumented Dominican-born children in the bateyes, and the Batey Relief Alliance’s plan to expand its mission in the neighboring Republic of Haiti.

The lecture is part of the Batey Relief Alliance’s effort to promote and advocate awareness of the needs of the populations it serves, and encourage public participation in its many projects.

Founded in 1997, the Batey Relief Alliance is a United States-based 501c3, non-profit, non-political, humanitarian aid organization addressing the socio-economic and health needs of children and their families severely by poverty, disease and hunger in the Caribbean.

For more information about this release or to schedule a lecture with Ulrick Gaillard, contact the Batey Relief Alliance at bra@bateyrelief.org or (917) 627-5026. Visit www.bateyrelief.org.

ANSE-A-PITRES, Haiti. – Haiti’s Health Minister, Dr. Robert Auguste, ended on Saturday, March 30th in the Southeastern impoverished border locality of Anse-a-Pitres, a series of meetings with board members and strategic partners of the Batey Relief Alliance and BRA Dominicana—as part of a three-day visit to the Dominican Republic searching for ways to enhance healthcare for 20,000 inhabitants living at the border.

Minister Auguste and his five-member delegation started the visit with a trip to the Batey Relief Alliance’s health installations in the province of Monte Plata—Northeastern Santo Domingo. “I am very impressed by the intervention of the organization,” said Minister Auguste.

The Minister and members of the Batey Relief Alliance traveled to Anse-a-Pitres to evaluate the health situation of the population and conditions of the two government-owned medical clinics. The Minister expressed concerns over the lack of access to quality health services to the population and his willingness to transfer the complete management of the clinics to the Batey Relief Alliance—with a track record of delivering annually healthcare and medicines to 17,000 Haitians and Dominicans living inside the bateyes of the Dominican Republic.

A meeting is scheduled for June 27th in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince to sign an agreement between Haiti’s Ministry of Health and the Batey Relief Alliance. “We are ready to intervene swiftly in Anse-a-Pitres in preventive health projects and management in the areas of primary care and surgeries, dentistry, HIV/AIDS, blindness, water/sanitation, nutrition, and community health promotion and education,” added Ulrick Gaillard, CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance.