Santo Domingo.– The Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) completed its 2007 independent financial audit
and is reporting a total public fundraising activity in the amount of
$2,312,997.35, of which, $85,371 covered the organization’s administrative
expenditures while $2,227,626.35 was spent to develop its programs and projects
in the Dominican Republic.
The Batey Relief Alliance delivered direct social and complete health/eye
care and free medicines to 19,132 vulnerable people living inside the bateyes
(vulnerable sugar cane plantations communities) in the province of Monte Plata.
55,000 children is now receiving multivitamins and antiparasitic medicines while
another 80,000 adults and children received improved medical care and medicines
through BRA’s medical donations to 26 grassroots and governmental organizations
working in various urban barrios, border localities and rural slums around the
country.
And those who are living with HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis received free
testing, education, antiretroviral treatment, nutrition and Biosand water
filters.
The organization’s cash and in-kind donations are all U.S-based and come from
the Batey Relief Alliance’s board of directors, United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, Disciples of
Christ’s Week of Compassion, Saint Joseph Foundation, International Foundation,
New York Rotary Foundation, New Jersey Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center,
Riverside Church of New York City, Penny Harvest Comment Cents, Presbyterian
Church USA-Hunger Prevention Program, Union Hill Presbyterian Church, SVOSH
University of Alabama, SVOSH New England College of Optometry, Vitamin Angel
Alliance, Catholic Medical Mission Board, Direct Relief International, and
individual contributors.
From: United States
Where are the owners of these Batey's?
They should be charged with negligence of Human Basic Rights or do they have a extremely strong business alliance with the government (PROPINA) so that they are left alone
Private individuals should not assume these reponsiblities while the owners live in lavish homes and reap the rewards of neglignece.
From: Canada
because you see things from there does not mean you see it clearly.... examine closely this situation if you want to help ....there actually is a smear campaign against the D.R. so use caution before you judge...Or you will be just another big mouth Maxine Waters type
From: United States
You assume that I don't know what is going on. Then you are saddley mistaken.
The owners don't give a damm and they treat their cattle better than the human staff.
I stand by my allegations and that the government dosen't have a problem lining its pockets at the expense of the Batey workers.
Written by: josean, 11 May 2008 10:09 AM
From: United States
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"....there actually is a smear campaign against the D.R. so use caution before you judge"
I am surprised I thought you did not adhere to grassy knoll theories!
Who is running this "smear campaign"? In what secret location do the meet?
The word campaign implies coordination of resources and efforts.
Or is freedom of expression now considered a conspiracy to smear?
If there is any "smear campaign" it must be being run by the Dominican government and the Catholic church who know this is going on and don't lift a finger.
And when the local and international community point it out what is obvious to everyone, they start crying about a "smear campaign!"
The best defense is a good offense, keep attacking the messenger so people will not focus on the message!
From: Canada
I agree much more can be done and will be done...this is not a case of one size fits all....knee jerk liberal reactions to movies and propaganda from certain sources will not help these unfortunate people..See Bill Clinton speak on behalf of BRA...His and Hillarys relationship with the important people on this island is well known
http://www.youtube.com/results?se....n++bateye+relief&search_type=Written by: josean, 11 May 2008 10:31 AM
From: United States
"knee jerk liberal reactions"
As Ronald Regan would say there you go again "G"immy!
Whether the information comes from Jane Fonda or Phyllis Schlafly the truth is the truth.
These folks live in subhuman conditions at best, which can and should be addressed, everybody knows about it and no government does anything!
From: United States
For everyones information:
I worked in the DR for 10 years, in the sugar mills, with environemtal remidation, press relations.
I have first hand knowledge of what is going on.
I saw the subhuman conditions in the bateys.
I saw and still see the government being purchased.
I saw and still see how the press being purchased and manipulated.
It is extremely sad when someone that hasn't been directly privy to the the inner workings can make statement such as smear campaign or buorgois remarks.
Those that work hard will always have, those that don't won't work hard will come up with the bougois remarks because of pure jealousy of thos that have.
General Imbert Barrear although seen as a hero was incharge of the largest polution center the mina rosario with all its pollution and money laundering. Where is this clean up? People die when they drink the water there.
I love the people in the DR and that is why I fight for those that can fight on their own.
From: Canada
many Dominicans live in these conditions...resources are thin...you know because of the metro...albeit some people think the government should buy them homes and autos ,but this is a much larger problem than you see .......dealing with immigration issues and sovereignty issues besides humanitarian aid
From: Canada
harrington if you lived in La Romana as a American employee of big sugar you would be the................bourgeois".....and if not you would be an outside agitator who does not know how to spell......So if you were the "bourgy" when did you have the conversion to the proletariat ? when you got transfered and could not take your domestics and driver with you
From: United States
gouletcolonial, you are a bigger idiot than I orignally percieved you to be. Stay in Canada and have your country the DR raped by the Domican Politicians politicans. You will only have the spoils that they leave over for your meals.
I can't beleive ther could be a bigger idiot than you, gouletcolonial.
From: United States
This is how you can get away from the issue at hand and make it your personal agenda and the actual suffering for the poor in the bateys is lost.
From: Canada
harrington I just had the honor to spend 4 days with this young man who manages to keep political issues out of the mix ...if you feel so strongly come back and help and stop whining and complaining...Aaron will be implementing a similar program here he lives on pennies a day and genuinely cares...without all the noise about the exploiters and bourgeois Dominicans
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/....icine-to-de-worm-Haitian-childrenFrom: Canada
harrington if you want to make a donation I would be happy to give you his info
From: Canada
josean very clever G immy.............................................................dont wander to far out there in left field....................
From: United States
to Jim Harrington. welcome to the army of posters who realise that gouletcolonial is among the most idiotic creatures ever to walk this planet! also recognise that this turd from the tundra supports oppression and oppressors the world over.it is no surprise to see him weigh in against the opponents of the bateyes; he probably has shares in one or more of them.
From: Canada
stop sucking up dredy
From: United States
it is called concurrence , goulet, not sucking up. i simple agree with anyone who asserts that you are a mindless idiot, and that is understandable in your case.
From: Canada
I am going to let you expend your gaseous air for awhile dred I will be back to push your buttons later
Written by: arcatype, 11 May 2008 3:17 PM
From: Dominican Republic
It's not the responsibility of the dominican goverment to take care of these illegals from Haiti. In Haiti they will have a worst prospect living in worse conditions with no work at all eating dirt cookies. The message is being sent loud and clear from the dominican goverment we will not take care or be responsible of this quiet invasion in part by haitians, it's been the dream from the very small ruling class of Haiti to get rid of their poor. The marginalization will continue, the deportations will be swifter and the dominican state has to work to improve the quality of life for it's citizens. One side of the island is trying to move forward the other side is betting it's chances on the opposite (Dominican Republic), to bail out it's poor from their own miserable and oppressive system of self destruction. These international organizations should demand change in Haiti, i dont understand with the presence of the U.N. in Haiti and no real progress. Haiti seems to be stuck in it's.
Written by: arcatype, 11 May 2008 3:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Cont., Own twilightzone! how can a goverment allow so much retrogression.
From: Canada
outsiders and whiners and complainers refuse to see this from any other perspective and show a lack of sensitivity to legitimate issues ie immigration and citizenship much more humanitarian work needs to be done...but without provoking a large segment of the population.....some outsiders try to promote this as an issue of race....... that concept will not help these suffering people and only arouse animosity....there are people who want to poison the well and create racial strife and they will play the slimy race card as easily here as Phony Al and Jesse and Farakhan play it in USA...You have seen these groups of Congressional black caucus members here being counterproductive....they should spend more time fixing the mess they created in Haiti by installing their hero Aristide then leaving the UN to clean up their mess..do not be deceived there is mischief at hand
Written by: arcatype, 11 May 2008 6:02 PM
From: Dominican Republic
It's time for Haiti to take care of their problems within there borders. The Dominican Republic should not pay by any means for the sins of Haiti's leaders that have brought misery upon their own people. Haiti for the haitians, Dominican Republic for dominicans.
From: United States
Gentlemen,
Most people working in the Bateys are legal workers wether from Haiti or from some other god forsaken country..
Most of the workers are legaly imported by paying a fee to the Domican government.
The issue is the subhuman working and living conditions that exist in the bateys and that these conditions persist even though the DR government collects a fee for allowing foreign workers and that an outside agency has to assit in taking care of these workers.
these owners of these Bateys treat their cattle better. If the cow is sick it will get vet help immediatly so as the owner dosen't suffer a loss but a human is let to rot in his own waste.
So gouletcolonial, don't change the subject with your own agenda in order to fulfill a void in your ego.
Written by: arcatype, 11 May 2008 7:25 PM
From: Dominican Republic
To JIMHARRINGTON Most of the workers contracted to work in the bateys come from Haiti, many have children in the country. They are given a pink birth certificate because they are contracted to work not to remain in the country, so they are not granted citizenship neither their children.
From: United States
gouletcolonial,
what are you trying to say?
That the batey workers deserve to be treated like a subhuman lifeform because they are from Haiti?
Is this what you are really saying gouletcolonial?
From: Canada
Mr Harrington you are misinterpreting what I believe about these poor unfortunate people..... also how best to help them.....please read my post concerning Mr Aaron Jackson a young man who spent 4 days in my home last week and is setting up a program of help for these very people.....He is only 26 years old and it was an honor to meet him ...I look forward to helping him any way I can......see previous post .11 May 2008 12:23 PM............ harrington I just had the honor to spend 4 days with this young man who manages to keep political issues out of the mix ...if you feel so strongly come back and help and stop whining and complaining...Aaron will be implementing a similar program here he lives on pennies a day and genuinely cares...without all the noise about the exploiters and bourgeois Dominicans
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/....icine-to-de-worm-Haitian-childrenFrom: United States
Gouletcolonial ,What can i say i agree with you....C EST LA VIE.Haitians for haiti, Dominicans for Dominicans Why is this so hard to understand?I dont see a bunch of Dominicans Trying to impose to Haiti what the Haitians are trying to impose to usDOMINICANS.Leave us ALONE. period. i AM SICK AND TIRE . of reading about HAITIANS.GO AND POST IN hAITI TODAY in KREYOLE.
From: United States
carbelk99: Way to go for the country that rocks "Dominican Republic"......................CONGRATULATIONS
Written by: macocael, 24 May 2008 5:14 PM
From: Dominican Republic
If you wish to learn more about the bateys and the current state of affairs, as well as historical and cultural information, please have a look at the following website:
http://dominicanbatey.org. It is intended as a resource for all people interested in learning about this issue.
From: United States
How many Dominicans live in Haiti.,How many Haitians live in Dominican republic?....Isugest that you Haitians who manage to leave the quagmire calle HAITI.just shut up and post in Haiti Today in KREYOL. i bet you don t have one.most of us Me included who helped haitians agains BLACK Dominicans, after reading your comments here.I ll not do so , like i did EN LALINEA, They were making fun of a Haitian girl,because of her nappy hair, i told that they had pappy hair too, AND that they were BLACK, they called me Americano.and i am Mocano.After readin the coments of Bel;ial The comunist who live in U S A. what a hipocrite, insted of living in a Comunist country.Habao Haitiano Josean and all those Haitians who post on Dominican Today...........Jemesouviens .Dominicans for Dominicans.......Haitians for Whatever,they can t even take care of their affairs. Que verguenza cono.
From: United States
i believe Mr Jim Harrington has zeroed in on the instincts of Goulet! i always knew it, but i am glad to see that he has exposed himself further, this troglodyte from the tundra.
From: Canada
he will be returning you can volunteer to help like I did instead of trying to make trouble
From: United States
listen Goulet, unlike you, i do not have to make banner headlines when i help people. i have done my fair share, thank you, and i have no need for you directing me where to help. there are enough worthy causes in the dr, so i encounter them on a repetitive basis. i do what i can, but i do not find a need to announce it in the media. maybe this is a first for you, and you are still overjoyed. those of us with a history of caring for the next guy do not need to alert the press every time we buy a plato del dia for a limpiabota!!
From: Canada
one minute I am a slave driver and oppressing exploiter of the poor now you paint me as the Albert Schweitzer of the Caribbean...thats OK anything but an outside trouble maker like yourself you pompous pretentious airbag of a hypocrite
From: United States
actually, goulet, i do not paint you as anything more than an attention seeker. anyone who has to tell the world that he has done charity to his fellow man is in serious need of psychiatric intervention. i have read this forum for many moons, and you are the only person i can recall who has informed us that he has done a kindness to the needy. to some of us that is a normal act, quite like eating , sleeping and going to the bathroom. announcing to the world that you helped someone once is like telling the world you just expended two feet of toilet paper; we do not need so much information!
From: Canada
but"" dread the air bag ""please only after your vicious attack on a subject to do with children did I remind you I had never said a negative word on this sensitive subject...my motto on this is DO NO HARM.....now bugger off and go somewhere and decompress
From: United States
you seem to be demented; will you kindly show me where i made a vicious attack in a subject regarding children? or is this another accusation you cannot substantiate with facts.? and what is with this bugger off thing? new toy?
From: Canada
the article on Haitian children in Santiago when you claimed I was the ring leader of some people making ugly emotional statements about a problem that is a tragedy and that I pointedly avoid posting on ....what did you get amnesia to go with your dumbass symptoms
From: United States
if i make vicious attacks , Goulet, they are not directed to the weak and mistreated. they are directed toward you, a punk and coward who has all the trappings of a slavemaster. if you continue to try and drive a rift between myself and Dominicans, i will excoriate you to the limits of my vocabulary. you remain a marginal creature in this forum, here to take out your animosity against the cuban regime upon anyone who dares to express a favorable comment on behalf of socialism. as to your repetitive references to redistribution on the part of Mugabe...you should use the term re redistribution. the land was already redistributed by the europeans, from the natives to themselves. i do not agree with such draconian measures, but this would not be happening if europe had not stolen the land in the first place.
From: Canada
of course you agree fool ...your feeling of victimization is overwhelming and because of that you will never amount to much...and dont brag on your vocabulary it proves my point of your pretentious pomposity
From: Canada
and your grasp of the facts is weak very weak so weak you show your shoddy education
From: Canada
". the land was already redistributed by the europeans, from the natives to themselves. i do not agree with such draconian measures, but this would not be happening if europe had not stolen the land in the first place."......yes they should have been left alone to become brain surgeons and rocket scientists
From: United States
i get it, goulet. you are one of the colonialist sympathisers who hold to the belief that europeans did africa a favor by colonising them and enslaving them. had they been left to their own devices, there would be no Starbucks in Johannesburg, and African kids would never know the joys of playing nintendo. well, i disagree. there are certain people who want just to be left alone, to continue the traditions of their ancestors. people deep in the brazilian rainforest do not necessarily want the trappings of european civilisation. they do not need prescriptions from white supremacists such as yourself as to what is good for them. they live their way, with their customs, and dont need people like you introducing some paternalistic idea of what is good for them. you say i have a weak grasp of facts. does this mean that you disagree with me that europe stole the lands of africa, all the americas, and large tracts of asia, not to mention australia and other parts of oceania?
From: United States
are you privy to the use of history books? is there a library in your neck of the tundra?these are not state secrets..everyone knows the history of european colonisation, with the possible exception of yourself. actually, you do know it, but your viewpoint is that it was a benefit to the native people. chains and shackles, forced labor, the middle passage and all the associated trappings of that era made the african a better person, in your way of thinking. i beg to differ.
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They should be charged with negligence of Human Basic Rights or do they have a extremely strong business alliance with the government (PROPINA) so that they are left alone
Private individuals should not assume these reponsiblities while the owners live in lavish homes and reap the rewards of neglignece.
The owners don't give a damm and they treat their cattle better than the human staff.
I stand by my allegations and that the government dosen't have a problem lining its pockets at the expense of the Batey workers.
"....there actually is a smear campaign against the D.R. so use caution before you judge"
I am surprised I thought you did not adhere to grassy knoll theories!
Who is running this "smear campaign"? In what secret location do the meet?
The word campaign implies coordination of resources and efforts.
Or is freedom of expression now considered a conspiracy to smear?
If there is any "smear campaign" it must be being run by the Dominican government and the Catholic church who know this is going on and don't lift a finger.
And when the local and international community point it out what is obvious to everyone, they start crying about a "smear campaign!"
The best defense is a good offense, keep attacking the messenger so people will not focus on the message!
As Ronald Regan would say there you go again "G"immy!
Whether the information comes from Jane Fonda or Phyllis Schlafly the truth is the truth.
These folks live in subhuman conditions at best, which can and should be addressed, everybody knows about it and no government does anything!
I worked in the DR for 10 years, in the sugar mills, with environemtal remidation, press relations.
I have first hand knowledge of what is going on.
I saw the subhuman conditions in the bateys.
I saw and still see the government being purchased.
I saw and still see how the press being purchased and manipulated.
It is extremely sad when someone that hasn't been directly privy to the the inner workings can make statement such as smear campaign or buorgois remarks.
Those that work hard will always have, those that don't won't work hard will come up with the bougois remarks because of pure jealousy of thos that have.
General Imbert Barrear although seen as a hero was incharge of the largest polution center the mina rosario with all its pollution and money laundering. Where is this clean up? People die when they drink the water there.
I love the people in the DR and that is why I fight for those that can fight on their own.
I can't beleive ther could be a bigger idiot than you, gouletcolonial.
Most people working in the Bateys are legal workers wether from Haiti or from some other god forsaken country..
Most of the workers are legaly imported by paying a fee to the Domican government.
The issue is the subhuman working and living conditions that exist in the bateys and that these conditions persist even though the DR government collects a fee for allowing foreign workers and that an outside agency has to assit in taking care of these workers.
these owners of these Bateys treat their cattle better. If the cow is sick it will get vet help immediatly so as the owner dosen't suffer a loss but a human is let to rot in his own waste.
So gouletcolonial, don't change the subject with your own agenda in order to fulfill a void in your ego.
what are you trying to say?
That the batey workers deserve to be treated like a subhuman lifeform because they are from Haiti?
Is this what you are really saying gouletcolonial?