NEW YORK. – After more than fourteen years implementing life-saving projects of health and HIV/AIDS, food security/agriculture, water/sanitations, education and disaster relief in the Dominican Republic’s impoverished and vulnerable sugarcane plantations rural “batey” communities and Haiti’s isolated border regions, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) now seeks to climb some of the highest mountains of Peru …

PIANTINI, SD. – Charlie Mariotti, Senator of Monte Plata province, sponsored a resolution in 2010 for the Dominican Republic Senate to recognize the humanitarian work of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA). Since 1997, BRA invested more than $65 million in various key programs and projects of food security/agriculture, health/HIV/AID, water/sanitation, education and disaster relief, benefitting …