Here are the first group of volunteers in Chile, just before setting off to the project site. Volunteers have come from different countries and will be working together to help the people of Pichidegua rebuild their community.

Quillota hospital is a public hospital located in an urban zone of a mostly agricultural area in Central Chile in the Aconcagua Valley. The hospital welcomes volunteers from medical or nursing schools willing to help and experience the Chilean public health system.

A volunteer on the 'English Opens Doors' Project in Chile. Volunteers help children to learn or improve conversational English language skills.

Following the devastating Erathquake which struck Chile in February 2010, towns and villages were reduced to piles of rubble, leaving the local people homeless and in need of international support and aid. EIL was part of a project to send volunteers to Chile to help to clear up and to help local people re-establsih their communities.

The after effects of the eartquake in Chile 2010. EIL was part of a project to send volunteers to Chile to help the local people rebuild their communities.

The children at the school where the volunteer had been helping wave goodbye as the volunteer sets off on the journey home. The volunteer was in Chile as part of the Volunteer Abroad programme.

A group of Chilean children performing some traditional songs.