2011 MISSION CALENDAR
New York, N.Y. – The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is currently recruiting mission groups wishing to carry out five working-day trips to serve impoverished families in immediate need of emergency medical, dental or eye care living in vulnerable sugarcane “batey” rural communities of the Dominican Republic or Haiti’s Southeast border region.

BRA has 12 years of experience hosting mission groups from the United States, Canada, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Our missionaries and volunteers travel to communities where basic services are scarce to share their expertise with local professionals and deliver culturally-oriented services in areas of general medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, HIV/AIDS education and prevention, and blindness prevention. Other activities may include disaster relief, repairing or constructing homes or schools, or starting a new project of community building or education.

To register your group with BRA for a mission trip in 2011 to Haiti or the Dominican Republic, click on PREREQUISITES. You may also contact us at bra@bateyrelief.org. To learn more about the humanitarian work of the Batey Relief Alliance, visit our website at www.bateyrelief.org.

On this very day of October 23, 2010—the thirteenth-year anniversary of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA), I am proud to present to you the results of the work we executed from 2009 – 2010 on behalf of thousands of children and their families who are in desperate need in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, more particularly those living inside vulnerable sugarcane plantations bateyes, urban/rural slums, and border communities.

For a copy, please click 2009-2010 BRA Annual Report.

Thanks to the generous support of our friends, partners and donors, our dedicated Boards of Directors, personnel, volunteers and missionaries, and the loyalty of the communities we serve, our accomplishments reached beyond what we had expected.

Through direct and indirect services and bona fide partnerships with local governmental and non-governmental organizations and the international community, we served an unprecedented number of over 200,000 people.

We know there are many challenges that await us, but we will overcome them with the same skills, discipline and creative wisdom that have enabled us to succeed in the past years.

As we embark on our new endeavors to meet the increased need of women and earthquake-affected internally-displaced people in Haiti’s Southeast border region or unemployed farmers inside the bateyes facing severe economic hardship, however, more funding will be needed to help rebuild their lives.

The generous support of donors like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has allowed us to strengthen our base as we expand our horizons. Your continued support is essential to our continued success.

I thank you in advance.

Respectfully,
Ulrick Gaillard, J.D.
Founder/CEO