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.