Spencer Global, the owners and operators of All Southern Chile and Patagonia and its sister sites in the All Chile Network, decided to call on the expat community in Chile and those that love Chile around the World to help organize direct aid flights to remote communities in Southern Chile in the days after the earthquake and devastating tsunami. Spencer Global re-tasked its entire staff and contacts around Chile after the earthquake to providing assistance finding missing people, including many foreigners across Chile. They used their exensive network of contacts to help put people in touch with their families outside Chile. The law office of Spencer Global Chile was one of the few organizations, either public or private, with the resources already in place to assist after the disaster. 

It became apparent in the first days that there were many small communities in Southern Chile that where cut off from receiving aid, and major aid organizations were still getting established in Southern Chile.

We called on several friends that live in Southern Chile. Vincent Beasley a commercial pilot with bush pilot experience in Alaska volunteered his time and airplane to help in the effort. American doctors living in Chile, Dr. Charles Whiting and his wife Dr. Kristan Whiting also volunteered to help. We quickly organized a small donation network through expat forum at allchile.net to help pay for fuel, medicine, and other needs, and the  Chilean attorneys at Spencer Global organized an emergency provisional medical license for the doctors to practice medicine in Chile.

It was less than 72 hours from making the preliminary first calls to organize until the first load of aid landed in the town of Teua on the coast of the Chilean 9th region along with doctors and staff from Spencer Global. Over the course of the following week, we made more than 37 flights,  covering thousands of miles to delivere tons of aid, psychologist, military search and rescue teams, and other aid workers from NGOs such as Techos para Chile, Cruz Roja, and Hogar de Cristo in to effected areas. Spencer Global and the Volanteers of All Chile Network continue to work closely with the large aid organizations to help send aid shipments in to effected communities, and are working on reconstruction projects for remote communities such as Isla Mocha off the coast of region Nine in Southern Chile. We will have much more news on these efforts in the coming months.