Batey residents enjoy clean water for first time, thanks to USDA, Presbyterian Church-USA and Batey Relief Alliance.

| February 28, 2011

BATEY COJOBAL, Monte Plata province, D.R. – February 3, 2011. – As part of its continuing effort to improve living conditions inside deep rural vulnerable batey communities in the Dominican Republic, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) collaborated with the Presbyterian Church-USA’s Committee for Self-Development of People (SDOP) to install three new water systems inside Batey …

BRA seeks Washington support to address food insecurity in DR and Haiti.

| February 22, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ulrick Gaillard, BRA’s CEO travels to Washington D.C. tomorrow morning for a one-day visit with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officials to discuss the progress and success of the organization’s current agricultural/cooperative initiative, under a USDA-funded Food for Progress program, being developed inside …