The Batey Relief Alliance
Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is a non-profit, non-political, humanitarian aid entity uniting grassroots groups, faith-based organizations, government agencies, and the international community in a strategic partnership to help create a safe, productive and self-sufficient environment, through health care, food security, education, disaster relief, and community development programs, for children and their families severely affected by extreme poverty, disease, and hunger in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean.

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NEW YORK, N.Y. – As part of its continuing humanitarian intervention in the economically-isolated and medically-deprived Southeast border region of Haiti, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is scheduled to dispatch from January 2-9, 2011 a team of nine American dentists and assistants to deliver preventive dental care to impoverished children and their families living in the commune of Anse-a-Pitres. “The week-long dental intervention will take place at BRA’s medical clinic in Anse-a-Pitres and free care will also be provided along with free toothbrushes, pastes and flosses to anyone in critical need, including quake-affected internally-displaced people and those living in the Dominican Republic’s community of Pedernales,” said Dr. Thomas Beague, BRA’s Dental Mission Chief.

Since the 7.0-magnitude powerful earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12th, killing more than 300,000 people and leaving another 1.3 million sick, homeless and hungry, BRA responded swiftly by sponsoring medical mission trips and coordinating the donations of millions of dollars-worth of medicine and medical supplies and food. Dr. Beague added that more missions are scheduled in 2011 to continue delivering more urgent medical and dental services and antibiotics, as well as eye care and prescription eye glasses to the populations.

Please help the Batey Relief Alliance continue to help the suffering people of Haiti. Donate alternatively by clicking online or mailing in your tax-deductible checks payable to Batey Relief Alliance, P.O. Box 300565, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11230.

MONTE PLATA, Dominican Republic – December 1, 2010. – In the presence of hundreds of people gathered at the BRA’s Medical Center inside Batey Cinco Casas in the province of Monte Plata to celebrate World AIDS Day, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) presented the “True Partners Award” to three local organizations, including the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, Population Services International and Global Fund’s del Instituto Dermatológico y Cirugía de Piel for their life-saving work with BRA to fight HIV and AIDS in the Dominican Republic (DR).

Ulrick Gaillard, BRA’s CEO commented that for the past five years, his organization worked strategically with these partners to help strengthen the DR’s National Response to Fight AIDS inside the bateyes, by forming dozens of young leaders to work on education campaigns; collaborating with communities and key actors to reduce the spread of the virus and deliver microcredit/economic assistance and comprehensive health and HIV (antiretroviral) treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS; and providing nutritional aid to orphans and vulnerable children, pregnant women and the elderly.

In compliance with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, BRA continues to further develop its HIV/AIDS comprehensive program in Monte Plata by creating agricultural cooperatives to develop infrastructures and agriculture inside seven batey communities in order to produce food security and economic self-sufficiency for 35,000 people, including HIV/AIDS-affected families.

Currently BRA works in more than 70 bateyes and rural communities of the provinces Monte Plata and Pedernales and in the Southeast border regions of the Republic of Haiti.

Provincia Monte Plata, Rep. Dom. Diciembre 1, 2010. En un solemne acto de Conmemoración por el Día Mundial del SIDA en el Ayuntamiento Municipal de Sabana Grande de Boya del Municipio de este mismo nombre, en la provincia Monte Plata, a través del Consejo Municipal presidido por la Lic. Juana E. Coca, y a solicitud de la honorable Alcaldesa Dra. Bertilia del Carmen Fernández (gestión 2010-2016), se realizó la entrega de un Reconocimiento al Sr. Ulrick Gaillard, Fundador y Jefe Ejecutivo de Batey Relief Alliance (BRA), como “Huésped Distinguido y la Entrega de la Llave de la Ciudad del Municipio Sabana Grande de Boya”, considerando:

1-Que es un líder, un hombre de bien y su obra ha llegado hasta el municipio. 2-Que sus preocupaciones abarcan las poblaciones más vulnerables de la provincia y en especial el municipio de Sabana Grande de Boya y sus bateyes para impulsar acciones de desarrollo social y dar a sus habitantes mejor calidad de vida.

El acto fue realizado en el despacho de la honorable Alcaldesa, el protocolo de lugar y fue recibido con gran honor por la Lic. Matilde Marcial Contreras en representación del galardonado, a seguidas se presentó una síntesis de la labor humanitaria de BRA, resaltando el espíritu humanitario del Sr. Gaillard, lo cual fue corroborado con testimonios de presentes que han sido testigos de la entrega del Sr. Gaillard ante los más vulnerables como es el caso del Sr. Antonio García, quien se pronunció al respecto sacando a relucir los ejemplos de ocasiones en donde el Sr. Gaillard ha estado presente poniendo en peligro su integridad física en las intervenciones (Tormentas Olga y Noel, Bajo Yuna) y además haciendo notar el trato de cerca con los más necesitados sin discriminar raza, nacionalidad, credo, religión, o afiliación política.

La actividad se cerró con un brindis por la vida y la frase “hacia la dignidad y la productividad humana” y solicitando la visita del Sr. Gaillard a el Ayuntamiento para conocerle personalmente, ya que expresan mucha admiración hacia BRA y, en particular, hacia su persona. Cabe destacar que, una comisión de personas viviendo con el VIH/SIDA, los cuales son beneficiarios de los servicios de Atención Integral de BRA, también solicitó reconocer al Sr. Gaillard por su iniciativa y gran apoyo en materia de VIH/SIDA en la zona.

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