HelpChileQuake Turns Travelers into Volunteers and Helps Organize Volunteer Relief Efforts

HelpChileQuake along with VolunteerBlogpost is the number one website that is pushing hard to merge travel with volunteering. We already know that travelers are already a special group of people motivated by the experience, culture and the attractions of new adventures. One way or the other, they will be out to explore and be one with Mother Nature. While traveling for fun, travelers can participate in a network of good championed by VolunteerBlogPost Network.

We are in the business of encouraging, motivating and encouraging people with great skills and expertise and time to share with those who need them the most. After the monster quakes that hit Haiti and Chile, we have come to see the importance of such efforts.

The organizations that are working to alleviate the pain of the victims and survivors of the quake depend on the efforts of people like us. They depend on organizations provided by sites such as HelpHaitiQuake and HelpchileQuake to tap into a readily available group of potential volunteers willing to travel to the country to help. We understand that organization is very important in the chaotic situation created by quake-related needs and emergencies.

Today, we are all Haitians and Chilenos! We feel for all of them.

Decide to volunteer either in Haiti or Chile

HelpChileQuake@gmail.com or HelpHaitiQuake@gmail.com

We hope to turn each traveler into a readily available volunteer today!!!!!

List of Organizations Helping Chile Rebuild

Feb. 27 Chile Earthquake

Aftershocks continue to rattle Chile as they continue to recovery from the February 8.8-magnitude earthquake.
How you can help:

• ADRA International
• American Red Cross
• AmeriCares
• Chilean Red Cross
• Church World Service
• Direct Relief International
• Doctors Without Borders
• Habitat for Humanity
• Operation Blessing International
• Samaritan's Purse
• Shelterbox
World Vision

World Vision is Reaching Out To Chilean Children Who Suffer Mental Shocks, Are Jumpy Due to Quake and Aftershocks

Many crisis workers and psychologists have known the effects of natural disasters on children. They saw it at Banda Aceh in Indonesia and in Haiti. Children are suffering from panic attacks. The Feb. 27 quake has lasting effects on all the Chilean children who are still at home. Their school has been delayed until mid April after the government announced an intensive project of school rebuilding. Christian organization, World Vision, is doing something to help solve these problems. World Vision needs your financial assistance to meet its goals.

Through community centers, World Vision is trying to return the kids to normalcy through play.

"The Christian charity is opening several centers in some of the hardest-hit parts of Chile, which it is calling "Child Friendly Spaces," to try to ease the burden of the quake on kids.

World Vision is also launching a nationwide toll-free help line. The phone bank staffed by psychologists will offer counseling to anyone feeling stressed, anxious or severely depressed. They are also offering advice to parents on how to help their children cope with the traumatic event...."

Read the rest of the article at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124744971

Currently Traveling Chile and Seeking Volunteer Opportunities in Vina del Mar or Elsewhere

Matt A. and his friend are currently traveling in Chile. They are in Vina del Mar. They want to take some time to volunteer with any local organization.

Please contact HelpChileQuake@gmail.com if you are an organization needing volunteer help in that community or anywhere nearby.

Let us say thanks to Matt and his friend for wanting to help fellow Chileans.

Oy somos todos chilenos! Si se puede!

Mechanical Engineering Graduate from Australia, Automotive Mechanic Is Seeking Engineering Position in Chile's Infrastructures Reconstruction Projects

28-year-old Jason H. is ready to help Chile rebuild its infrastructures. Jason has a degree in Mechanical engineering. He is also an automotive mechanic by trade. He is eager to help Chile. He wants to use his skills to help rebuild Chile. While he is traveling in South America, he would like to find a position where he can utilize his great skills.

Jason H. is ready to work and help rebuild Chile. Here is what he says about his search, "I am a practical person who thrives on utilizing skills that I have to help and rebuild chile. I would love to know if I could be helpful in anyway, where it be in engineering or in hands on applications...."

If any national or international engineering firms want to contact him, please shoot us a message at HelpChileQuake@Gmail.com

Welcome to HelpChileQuake Where You Can Be Part of Grupos de Voluntarios Para Chile

HelpChileQuake wants to build a tsumani of volunteers who are ready to help Chile rebuild. Chile has been a good neighbor to many countries in Latin America. Chile's government sent lots of help to Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake hit the Caribbean nation. Little did Chileans know that they would be hit by a monster just a month after the Haitian quake!

Chile sent lots of assistance to Haiti and other countries. Now it is time to help Chile face its problems and help Chileans rebuild bridges and other necessary infrastructures.

Chile needs you now. Will you stand with Chileans all over the world?

Write to HelpChileQuake@gmail.com

Mapuche Communities Complain About Lack of Assistance, Tents, Feel Abandoned by Chilean Government

Mapuche communities are complaining about the lack of food, water, tents, cloths, gas and electricity. They feel marginalized and abandoned by their own government. The leaders are wondering whether this treatment is due to their past and ongoing fights and claims of ancestral land. Find out more about the plight of the central-south regions Mapuche Indigenous people..... Please do not let the Mapuche people go without despite their struggles to get heard! Send assistance to the remote areas of their communities! They need shelter, clothes and food just like any Chileans! Volunteers and humanitarian organizations can focu on these vast areas now.


"Chile´s indigenous Mapuche community is looking abroad for help in the aftermath of the Feb. 27 earthquake, as some members of the community say they feel marginalized and abandoned by the country´s government, reports The Santiago Times.

According to the UKL-based organization Mapuche International Link (MIL), there has been very little, if any, food, tents, cloths, water, gas or electricity in the rural areas of the central-south regions of the country inhabited by ethnic Mapuches.

This is in contradiction with official claims that the situation in Chile is under control and improving for most citizens.

“The Mapuches face ceaseless repression of their political and ancestral rights. As such, they have a reason to worry that their needs will be put at the bottom of the state´s intervention list,” says MIL vice-secretary Nina Dean.

According to Mapuche activist Miguel Cheuqueman, government aid arrived to the municipalities, such as Tirua, Canete, Arauco and Lebu. But it was not distributed to isolated Mapuche communities.

“The municipalities probably don´t have sufficient means. However, we suspect that the lack of will also plays role,” Cheuqueman, who represents the regional Mapuche group La Identidad Territorial Lafkenche, told the Santiago Times.

There have been many conflicts between the state and the Mapuche community in the La Araucania region in the past years, mostly over land.

Feeling that they are left alone, Mapuche civil society organizations are taking initiative into their hands, collecting donations and distributing them into rural areas. Still, they lack resources that the state has at its disposal......