Santo Domingo, DR.- The Executive Director of the Batey Relief Alliance, Ulrick Gaillard, joins the executive board of the Dominican Republic’s Lions Club Arroyo Hondo Santo Domingo (Club de Leones Arroyo Hondo). “It is a great honor for me to be part of this great work, and serve with those who care about the rest of the world,” said Gaillard.

Gaillard holds the post of 3rd Vice-President of the club, and is already planning with other members a full agenda of relief activities focusing on blindness prevention, nutrition and primary health care for the country’s most impoverished in the bateyes, the urban slums and the border areas.

“The Lions Clubs International foundation represents a strong example of commitment to social justice work, and provides the kind of leadership role that sets a clear path leading to the enhancement of lives all around the world,” added Gaillard.

Gaillard has always been involved, as a non-member, with the LCI securing funding to start a mobile health clinic project currently providing primary care to needy populations of the bateyes; working with the New Jersey Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center to start a Blindness Prevention program in the bateyes and city slums; and securing additional funding from the LCI to build and renovate the very first medical center in the bateyes. “My heart and soul have always been with this work, and I am confident that I will do much more to help further the mission of the LCI,” concluded Gaillard.

Gaillard has also worked with prominent Lions including Dr. Carlos Justiniano, past International Director of the Lions Clubs International, George Johnson, Executive Director of the NJ Eyeglass Recycling Center and many others.

Ulrick Gaillard is Founder and Executive Director of the Batey Relief Alliance, a US-based humanitarian entity uniting local grassroots organizations, government partner agencies, faith-based groups, universities and the international community in a strategic partnership to help create a productive and self-sufficient environment for the economically disadvantaged in the Caribbean, including Haiti and the Dominican Republic.