Emergency Earthquake Response: Donate Now!
Dear VE Friends and Volunteers,
VE's local team is leading the repair effort, hazard removal, food and sanitary product distribution and emotional and survival training support for the children in its institutional network in Santiago. A four-tiered strategy is underway to combat the damage caused by Saturday's Earthquake and raise the necessary $30,000 to rebuild and support our institutions. 
Collapsed wall at María Reina Aldea
VE's strategy is the following:
1) Disaster Response:
VE has assessed the damage to the orphanages, community centers and schools and is now focused on supporting them and our local NGO partners.
2) Repair Structural Damage:
A number of our institutional partners' buildings and homes were severely damaged during the earthquake, leaving over 450 children without a safe place to sleep, eat, play, or study. We have evaluated the damage and will continue to seek professional advice on structural repairs and develop a rebuilding process.
3) Distribute Sanitation Supplies:
The spread of disease is a paramount concern after every natural disaster. We need sanitation and personal hygiene products to keep our children safe from disease.
4) Prevention and Education:
VE Global is teaming up with the American Red Cross to develop post-traumatic emotional educational programs and survival programs for the children and tías in our instituions. Although repairs to the children's homes are the first priority, VE will help confront emotional and educational issues for many months to come.
We need help. If you are able to assist us, please donate online here, or contact matt, msuggett@ve-global.org, for more information on how you can help.
Un Abrazo,
Brooke Lloyd
Executive Director
Welcome to VE Global
VE Global is a different kind of volunteer organization. With no volunteering fee and a philosophy of greater opportunity for both the volunteers and the children we serve, VE Global continually seeks to find ways to support the programs essential objectives which are to recruit and train international volunteers to implement educational programs and act as positive role models for at-risk children in Santiago, Chile. Our projects are created out of a desire to bring equality of opportunity to the children of Chile. By combining the desire for a better world with the determination for concrete results, VE not only dreams of change; it creates change.
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Unite. Act. Engage. Campaign Update!
The 2009 UNITE. ACT. ENGAGE. campaign is officially underway! Click here to check out some photos of our campaign launch event, held in Santiago on Saturday November 7th. Be sure to check our campaign headquarters page regularly for announcements, updates, and news as our campaign gathers pace, and to find out how our volunteers around the world are helping!
Our campaign thermometer will report back to everyone the progress VE has made around the globe. This is just a quick glimpse of what we will have in store, so be sure to stay tuned!
UNITE. ACT. ENGAGE. 2009 campaign supporting the children we serve. For more information, please visit our campaign homepage.