Monday, March 31, 2014

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form



2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form  
Follow this template to organize the primary details about your volunteer project:
1.    Title of plan –
      Abilities me Conference- and special needs community
2.    Names of group participants:
      Rashed Alqemzi/Mohammed Albisher/ Abdulla Kalib
      Mohammed Abdul Aziz/ Marwan mahammed/ Fahad sultan

3.    Organization (name) and contact person (supervisor + email): 
     Eman Al-Tamimi head of Education special needs sector
     tel:026980466/ Email: eman.altamimi@zoh.ae

4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?
Ex: this project will help the students of Al Hosan School to develop their IT skills 

    We wanted to accomplish the instruction that the regulators gave us. Which resulted in an organized       exhibition.


5.    Time/ schedule: students will volunteer for how many hours / week? Days?  

              From 24th of March to 26th 10:00 am till 6 pm

6.    To be successful what need to be done?
Ex: In the end, students must be able to type 20wpm English typing. 

           Need to know how to deal with the people and be positive

           Try to ask about the thing that you don’t know. 

7.    What are the Benefits to the participants? (Both volunteers and recipients)
            Organized event and less paper work

            For volunteer, volunteering certificate, gain experience, feel confidence and meet new people from                     different countries.  

8.    What are the aims of the project
                To learn more skills
                To be in depended
   9.    Who are the target audience, and why?
                People in the society
                Disabilities people
  10. What activities would your project involve?
             Give the people some information about the conference and register their name
             Guiding the people and give them brochure.
  11. Who would be volunteering?
              Students
              Teachers
              Anyone who would like to help society
 12. What are the benefits your project could bring to the target audience?
               Consider special needs more in their any opportunities they would offer.
  13. What problems do you think you might come across and how would you try to get around them?
               When I was in the conference there was a woman asked me about exhibition car parking payment,                     and I was confused because I don’t know the answer, then I told her to meet my supervisor.   

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Final reflaction



I had Learned a lot of things about people with special needs and that it's will be a benefit  in my life, which made me look forward to volunteering again and contribute to society. I learned that there is no word in the dictionary is impossible with special needs. I have seen who has a mental disability presents a speech in Arabic and English , and some of them was a painter and also a farmer, and was visually impaired and blind that he did not notice, also do not forget the disabled who are unable to play basketball like them . Every time when I was leaving the exhibit  I were  happy to volunteer in this exhibition, I thank you once again, this volunteer was one of the best things that I tried in my life, and I am fully prepared to volunteer, and I'll try to offer ideas that benefit society .

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Last Day (26th of March)

At The last day we start to work in other place than the conference room because the conference room closed,then we went to help the people in the show. We had helped the handicap painter packaging his drawing's and he thanks us for helping him also we took a picture with him for remembering. At the end of the day we receive a certificate for participating from our supervisor Eman Altamimi.



An interview with Mr.James ADNEC organiser. (voice recording).

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

The 2nd day (25th of March)

Our disk.
The second day of the exhibition (25th of March), which was attended by many people with special needs, also they talked about the education of people with special needs, after that we started to provide certificates for all the attendees at the conference. 
The Certificates for attending.
The big event was surprise for us on that day. HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan visit us in the exhibition, he participate in the exhibition and joined specially to those with special needs.
HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan with Emirates wheelchair basketball team.

Finally I had met with Emirates wheelchair basketball team and I watched their match which stole the attention of all those who attended the exhibition.


Me and my friends with UAE wheelchair basketball players.





Terry Fox a hero that I will never forget him


And in one of the The conference topics offered a video talking about the hero would not forget history Terry Fox an athlete and activist in support of Cancer Research and the Canadian human. In 1980 he ran across Canada, only with one leg, it was amputated after the other, to raise funds and awareness about cancer research. however, his efforts have resulted in activities to support cancer research worldwide. It has become "Terry Fox” global event annually since 1981, involving millions of participants in more than 60 countries, and is now the biggest global event to collect donations in a single day for Cancer Research. He has the effect in much of what has made me search the internet and have found the campaign in his name in Abu Dhabi called terry fox run , which is held every year at the Abu Dhabi Corniche and I wanted to join them, but unfortunately ended in the previous week, but I'll stay on the lookout for and where I'm going next year.

First day of volunteering (24 March 2014)

       In the first day of the Exhibition and Conference special needs (24th of March), from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. I was the first volunteers present, in the beginning they give us a volunteers vest, and they divide us in to two groups to register visitors,one was in the workshop which held the lectures talk about products for people with special needs, the second section is a conference room, which is held the seminars and discuss the topics and the problems of people with special needs, and I was in the Department of the registration for the Conference. at the beginning the exhibition was opened by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, and started with a short Lecture for the people with special needs, their role in society, and continued lectures with several people till four o'clock afternoon.  also they talked about the Champions Superiority on their disabilities physical, there was a lot of people and some of them made me convinced that with disabilities are heroes, where I was met a lady which was skilled virtual record in the conference and I didn’t know that because she was looking like a normal girl not like a special need. At the end of the day mahra aldhaheri advises the word disabled with seriously, perseverance, diligence and that nothing is impossible.

Special Needs Taxi
Special Needs Car from Mercedes company. ( Its Imported from London )

Monday, March 24, 2014

LSH 2903 – Community Service – Learning / Exercise #7


LSH 2903 – Community Service – Learning /  Exercise #7 
Charity and Volunteering in the UAE - Information and Activities
The UAE is famous for its hospitality and the desire to give one's time and efforts to help other people.
Activities
Use the following link to access the website of the UAE Red Crescent.
Once you are there, see if you can answer the following questions. This will help you to find out what the organisation does, what some of their projects are and who are the people involved in the organisation.

1.                   The UAE Red Crescent has contributed to a number of building projects both inside and outside the UAE. Name three projects the UAERC has worked on
a.        An air bridge of relief to victims of the Haiti earthquake in 2009 and 2010.
b.        Build houses, mosques and schools in Africa.
c.        Building houses for Syrian refugees in Jordan.

2.                   Name at least 4 countries the UAERC has worked in to provide various project assistance
a.        Syria.
b.        Pakistan.
c.        Palestine.
d.        India.

3.                   What was the estimated total cost of projects undertaken in the UAE during 2009?

-          About 188 million dirhams.


4.                   According to the information about the foreign based projects, which group of projects received funding of 8,373,558 Dirhams?

-          projects of housing, health, education and other infrastructure

5.                   According to the information about the Foreign Projects, the UAERC is involved in some very important work. According to the English translation, these are listed below. Try to come up with an easy explanation for each of the terms in the grid.

Translation Term
My/Our own meaning
reconstruction
Building something that has been destroyed.
disasters
something very bad that happens to people.
crises
difficulty or danger.
rehabilitation
To help a person.
infrastructure
buildings, roads
devastation
Damage and destruction.
public utilities
Service for public.


6.                   Name three situations which are listed as �natural disasters�.
a.        Earthquakes.
b.        Floods.
c.        Volcanic eruptions.


7.                   Crescent Volunteers University
What are the three areas of training/qualification that university students could work towards?
a.        Volunteer work.
b.        First Aid.
c.        Human Law.


Sunday, March 23, 2014

UNICEF + Takatof Activity: Exercise #6

UNICEF Activity 1: Exercise #6

List and discus the latest newsline events in the United Arab Emirates

1-      Arab Media Award on Child Rights initiated to honour outstanding achievments: An award for the best written story.
2-      UNICEF and Dubai Cares support quality education to break the cycle of poverty: A campaign to collect donations to educate 1 million child.
3-      Police boost AIDS campaign in Dubai: A campaign to aware people about AIDS .

UNICEF Activity 2:

How can you help UNICEF? Working in groups, fill in the table below.
Ideas of supporting UNICEF
Ways of achieving it
Date of completion


Education


I will send books and volunteer on assisting and giving some general lessons for the children so they can gain knowledge.



Health


I have some knowledge of first aid and I will be helping with that as well as I will help on volunteering for the children and adults that are in bad health conditions.


Food


I will provide them with long term food such as flour, sugar, rice, and clean water because most of people get sick from polluted water.


Protection and safety

Send clothes and shoes. I will volunteer in building clean and safe shelters.
1.     Takatof - Exercise #6



Activity 1
Using Google search for information about Takatof and answer the questions below

What is Takatof?
It is a program for social volunteering is a nationwide volunteering initiative in the United Arab Emirates.
  
Which year did start? And who started it?
It was established in 2005, started by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abudhabi.
What volunteer work have they done?
1- Jacket distribution campaign.  

2-Community Projects.
3- Ramadan Projects.
How can you help?
By getting involved in Takatof to volunteer and to help others.