27802: Batey Relief: Emailing: Pressrelease.bra dominicana.2006 mission (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: The Batey Relief Alliance <bra@bateyrelief.org>

BRA (Dominicana) organizes medical mission trip with Dominican and Haitian
health care providers to Dominican Republic?s Bateyes.
BROOKLYN, New York, February 12, 2006. The Batey Relief Alliance/BRA
Dominicana, in partnerships with the Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad
(AMHE) and the Lions Club Arroyo Hondo Santo Domingo, is setting up a medical
mission trip to the bateyes from April 17th through April 21st, 2006.

More than 15 US-trained and licensed Haitian health care professionals are
expected to travel to the Dominican Republic to work alongside local Dominican
health providers delivering medical aid and medicines to 2500 residents who
have difficulties accessing public health care due to extreme poverty,
discrimination or fear of deportation.

BRA's local partner, the Dominican Ministry of Health (SESPAS) will
collaborate with medical practice permits for the volunteers and customs
clearance for the much needed medicines entering the country. The foreign
volunteers will be stationed in Santo Domingo, and operating at the BRA?s new
medical center located at batey Cinco Casas, District Don Juan, province of
Monte Plata.

BRA Dominicana will arrange preferred accommodations for the foreign team.
Interested volunteers must register with the BRA ? cover their own airfares,
lodging, meals and ground transportation ? and secure critically needed
medicines and supplies for the trip. Space is limited and applications must be
received by March 15th, 2006.

For an application packet or  information on how to join the mission, contact
Ulrick Gaillard at bra@bateyrelief.org or (917) 627-5026. Visit BRA at
www.bateyrelief.org.

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