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.