Institutions in Chile

1- Grouping

As you know people live together with other people making communitites. There are small communities like your family and bigger ones like schools, communes and countries.

Family:  

Family is the basics of society, there are different types of family, but there must be love, respect and protection in all of them. It is in charge of educating children and teaching them values.  Some families are big and others small, but no matter how they are like, they are all important and special.

School:  

School is the place where children adquire knowledge to integrate society. Also, children make friends, play, eat and spend most of the day there.

2- Public Institutions

An institution is a group of people who work together to achieve a particular function of public interest, in other words, to be useful for all people.

Hospitals: 

Doctors, nurses and paramedics take of patients in hospitals, appart from saving people's lifes with their job. They are also in charge of preventing illnesses, people's dental care, children's medical checks, etc. 

Courts:

Judges and lawyers work in courts. They help people with their legal problems. They also pass sentences to those who don't obey the law. 

Libraries:

In the library we can find lots of books to read and have fun. There are also computers and you can visit it whenever you want. The person in charge of a library is called librarian.

Police: 

This institution protecs and helps people who have been robbed, attacked, who have had an accident or an important loss. It was founded on april 27th, 1927. We can identify them because of their green uniform. They have got a badge with two crossed carbines. 

Firefighters:

Firefighters are in charge of putting out fires and helping with different kinds of rescues. In Chile, firefighters provide a public service without payment, that is to say, firefighters are voluntary workers. This institution was created in Valparaíso and is more than 150 years old.

Source: www.portaleducativo.net