BATEY RELIEF ALLIANCE (BRA)®

BRA aims to improve living conditions by providing children and their families access to comprehensive healthcare and economic development opportunities so that each member of the family is able to attend school and/or work to support their community or society.

The strategies BRA has created to achieve its mission goals are:

1. Partner with funders and donors to provide support to install fully-equipped modern medical facilities in the communities to deliver comprehensive health services (testing and counseling, primary and HIV/AIDS care, nutrition, micronutrients, clean drinking water, antiparasitic drugs and essential medicines);
2. Partner with local Ministries of Health and NGO to help coordinate our intervention through the national health agenda; and
3. Develop community development programs such as agriculture, microcredit and women economic empowerment to provide the tools to families to create food security and economic self-sufficiency.

BRA is equipped with:

1. Fully-equipped offices and professional staff to manage programs;
2. Fully-equipped medical clinics;
3. Trained community health promoters to educate the community about preventive health education issues;
4. The "BRA Holistic Healthcare Model" as a guide to providing comprehensive health care;
5. Strategic partners to provide in-kind and cash support and technical assistance to maintain the delivery of care;
6. Memberships with international platforms such as the Clinton Global Initiative and United Nations' Economic and Social Council and Department Public Information to network, and development new partnerships; and
7. External evaluators to monitor and evaluate our programs.

So far, we have accomplished the followings:

1. Members of the local communities are more knowledgeable about issues of interests that affect them;
2. Members of the communities are more willing to be trained as community health promoters and engaged to keep their families more informed and safe;
3. Created a new cultural of comprehensive health care for the poor in real areas;
4. Built the first and only modern medical facility inside the Dominican Republic's highly vulnerable sugarcane plantations rural "batey" communities, since the start of sugar production on the island in year 1517, to deliver compressive health services to the rural populations; accompanied by a replicable Holistic Healthcare Model as guidelines to deliver comprehensive health services;
5. Provided comprehensive health services to more 35,000 patients each year;
6. Provided nutritious food products to more than 21,000 patients each year;
7. Provided 180 million liters of clean drinking water to 35,000 each year; and
8. Created an agricultural cooperative to provide opportunity to 27,000 rural persons to farm, and micro loans to others to develop agricultural activities capable of producing household food security and economic self-sufficiency