Since the mega earthquake it Haiti on January 12th, killing more than 250,000, BRA responded swiftly by sponsoring four medical mission trips with more than 100 volunteer medical and relief aid personnel from the US, Haiti and the Dominican Republic delivering critical medical care, psychological aid, and essential medicine and medical supplies to thousands of victims in devastated areas of Port-au-Prince, Leogane, Jacmel and Carrefour. Three more missions are scheduled (March through June) to deliver more urgent medical services and antibiotics, as well as dental care, eye care and prescription eye glasses to Haitians living in the Southeast Department border region of Haiti and those who have crossed the border inside the DR seeking emergency medical assistance. Click HERE to view images.

BRA also coordinated with strategic partners such as Direct Relief International, Catholic Medical Mission Board/Brystol Meyers, and Americares/National Cancer Coalition to deliver millions of dollars worth of medicines, medical supplies and water purification PUR tablets into Haiti. BRA’s sponsored relief activities were made possible by the generous support of donors like you and partnerships of Student Volunteer Optometrists for Service of Humanity-New England College of Optometry (SVOSH-NECO), Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad (AMHE), IDDI and Red Jacques Viau.

Haiti’s recovery and rebuilding may take a long time and will require long-term strategies and collaborative efforts. On January 11th 2010, Haiti’s Ministry of Health entered into an agreement with BRA, whereby BRA assumed full control, operation and management duties over the government’s medical facility located in the Southeast Department’s commune of Anse-a-Pitres. BRA is now working closely with the Haitian and US governments to respond to widespread health needs of 200,000 people living in the Southeastern border region, by developing water/sanitations and health, delivering urgent supplies as well as repairing basic services.

In order to proceed with our next phase of long-term recovery/rebuilding of Haiti, BRA will need your continued support. We ask that you give alternatively. Please give to Batey Relief Alliance by clicking HERE or mailing in your tax-deductible checks payable to Batey Relief Alliance, P.O. Box 300565, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11230.

SANTO DOMINGO, D.R. – Ulrick Gaillard, CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is scheduled to travel to the Republic of Haiti on February 12th to meet with the country’s Minister of Health, Dr. Alex Larsen and elected and health officials from the Southeast Department to discuss his organization’s long-term plans, within Haiti’s national recovery/reconstruction objectives, to discuss long-term health needs of populations living in Haiti’s border region.

One day before the earthquake, Gaillard signed in Port-au-Prince an important partnership agreement with Dr. Larsen handing over full control of the Southeast’s only Medical Center to BRA to operate and manage. “Once fully renovated and equipped, the facility, located in Anse-a-Pitres, will have the capacity to deliver complete health services and medicines to 200,000 people from other surrounding communes, including Grand Gosier, Belle Anse and Thiotte,” said Gaillard. He added that BRA’s long-term plan will include water and sanitations and education to prevent diseases.

Since the earthquake, thousands of desperate Haitians travelled to the border into Anse-a-Pitres, seeking the most basic necessities to survive. We fear that the population growth in this tiny community, already overpopulated and plagued by extreme poverty, will result in an increased and desperate need for food, medicines and medical care—a demand that BRA is willing to meet collaboratively with Haiti’s Ministry of Health.

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