UNITED STATES, September 7, 2008. – New York-based humanitarian aid organization, BATEY RELIEF ALLIANCE, is mounting a disaster relief operation to address the basic needs of children and their families severely affected by 4 back-to-back deadly storms and hurricanes in Haiti.

According to local authority reports, Haiti is the most affected where the storms (Fay, Gustav, Hannah and Ike) have already claimed more than 1000 lives and left 86,000 homeless, dehydrated, hungry and exposed to diseases, mainly in the provinces of Gonaives and Les Cayes. 800,000 people are severely affected, including children. Haiti’s President, Rene Preval, warned that this year’s storms could be worst than 2004’s that killed more than 4,000. The Dominican Republic is also affected especialy in the bateyes, urban slums and rural areas where the populations are vulnerable and extremely poor.

Batey Relief Alliance and BRA Dominicana are joining forces with faith-based groups such as Social Services of Dominican Churches and Dominicano-Haitian Dialogue of Evangelical Churches to deliver medical assistance, medicines, vitamins, food, clean water, and clothes to the victims.

Donors can make online gifts of $35, $50, $100, $250, $500 or more by clicking on BRA’s DONATE NOW. Tax-deductible checks can also be mailed payable to: Batey Relief Alliance, P.O. Box 300565, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11230.

For more information, please contact BRA at (917) 627-5026, bra@bateyrelief.org, bateyrelief@mindspring.com, or visit www.bateyrelief.org.