Self Reflection

                                                                  Self Reflection

Trough my volunteer experience I learned many thing, when I was volunteer I meet some people who change my think about the life. I volunteer in ZHO company for 4 weeks in two days each week.

First when I inter the company I was scared from the student who study in the company. In the first day of me in ZHO I meet Mrs.Fatima and she talk with me and with my group about the company and about the student. When I meet the student first time I saw there very kind people and I change my opinion about them. I learned from my experience many if benefits for example: I know how I can treat with them and talk, I learned that is different levels of student. I change my outlook about the student because some student they think like us or better than us, and some student have a good body and they can do some practice best than us, that's thing change my outlook. I faced some experience in ZHO and first experience it when I meet some student and he talk to me and to my group about football in the world and we surprise about what he know and that mack us change our opinion, the second thing when we go to electrical work-shop the teacher give a tool for a student by a wrong way and we surprise about the student he don't tack a tool, that effect me because when they learn some thing they kipped in they brain, not like us we say that's not important that's mean we can learn from them many benefits in the life.

In the last I want to thank's the college because they teach us this subject, because the experience change my think about the disability people.   

Volunteering Day #4

Volunteering Day #4

On the last day of volunteering at ZHO, Our plan was first to go to the blacksmithing and welding workshop , so we went to the workshop and there was Mr. Hilal and FD told us everything about the workshop and tell us about the levels of students in the workshop, then we speak about the machines in the workshop. Last thing we sorted things every type we put it in a box.

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After we finished from the workshop we went to play football with the students of the center and the match was organization by supervisors of the center. We play in the Stadium of the center for 30 minutes and the game was fun and we enjoyed the play with the students. When the match ended our volunteer ended at the center.

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I would like to thank all the staff at the ZHO, it was a good time at the center and the supervisors were like a brothers to us.

Volunteering Day #3

Volunteering Day #3 

 

Today is the third day at the ZHO , in this day visited the center, Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed, he visited most of the workshop, but he has not visited the carpentry workshop that we were there. Students  of the center students are kind and respectful.

 First we went to the carpentry workshop and helped the students to use a hammer and screwdriver and share our work with them. They are respectful and good people and we enjoyed working with them.

In this pictures we had with the students some kind of games like jumping up from the ball and they do some practice like push up, then we sit with them and we sharing conversation with them to know what they are feeling.

Finally, I've enjoyed it very much and I hope to visit the place again.

Volunteering Day #2

 Volunteering Day #2

On the second day of volunteering we went first to record attendance at the reception, and then we went to the carpentry workshop and we know the students and the supervisor, and we went to the stadium and played football with the students of the center and some students are playing well and everyone was helping others and stimulated. Finally, we went to the blacksmith shop and this was the nicest Workshop. Was the supervisor of the workshop, Mr. Jasim Al Ali, and was a good person, we had to work on arranging the workshop and put all purposes in the store.

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I want to thank Mr. Jassim today because he knew that was my birthday and he brought me a cake

Volunteering Day #1

Volunteering Day #1

Today I went to ZHO and colleagues know even more about the center and its facilities and how to rehabilitate and educate students
On the first day we went to the onset and the security guard and asked him about Ms. Fatima supervisor for first place and a public utilities that have full knowledge about the center and all the answers on the questions

  She welcomed us and told us about the place and the date of its establishment and what was established, where he found the center for the rehabilitation of students with special needs, education and Alastvad of their community service, and took us on a tour of Gul Centre and we know the facilities where said teacher Fatima said at the center great facilities and are all safe and we can talk with some of the students as some of them difficult to deal with them and forbidden to approach them.

  Then we turned to Mr. Raja which an entrepreneur all of the students in terms of the formed about their mental abilities and we went with him to his workshop, where is the rehabilitation of the student and the foundation and knowledge of its capabilities and later distributed among the students qualify for several workshops, including carpentry, blacksmithing, sewing, electricity and printing where creates each student with his talent and I talk with student and I was surprised how high their abilities,  I saw some of their production and creativity.

And I enjoyed the first visit

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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.

When I travel to other countries and talk to people about my job, the students and the UAE in general, one constant thought I hear repeated is that the UAE is a very hospitable country and its people are very generous. People in the UAE often want to do things to help others, whether it is other UAE Nationals or people from other countries.

Within the UAE we see so many examples of people volunteering and giving to charities to try and help others. People do this out of the simple goodness of their hearts and to try to help other people to have a better life than they have at the moment. An obvious example is TAKATOF which promotes the idea of volunteering within the country.

Just last semester (March 2013) we had a major charity fundraising week when students, staff and teachers of ADMC raised 25,000 Dh to donate to a school in a poor village Cambodia.

The UAE is also very strongly represented in the international field of assisting people from other countries. It may be through the Red Crescent that people donate money, time or skills to try and help others. So much of the time when we hear about various international problems, the UAE is one of the first to step forward and provide assistance.

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.

http://rcuae.ae/

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.    Building mosques

b.    Digging wells

c.     Residential cities

2.              Name at least 4 countries the UAERC has worked in to provide various project assistance

a.     Syria

b.     Philippines

c.     Sudan

d.     Al-yamen

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

180,830,333 dirhams

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

 External Projects, various projects in the areas of housing, health, education and other              infrastructure at a cost of 8 million 373 thousand and 558 dirhams.

       

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	Rebuilding
	disasters	Ruins, mischance
	crises	Disaster
	rehabilitation	Recovery
	infrastructure	Organization, structure
	devastation	Destruction
	public utilities	Values, services

6.              Name three situations which are listed as �natural disasters�.

a.     Deluge

b.     Storms

               

c.     Earthquake

7.              Crescent Volunteers University

What are the three areas of training/qualification that university students could work towards?

a.     First aid

b.     The international humanitarian law

c.     Volunteer work methods

Follow Up

In the previous questions you have looked at a particular charity – the UAE Red Crescent. The questions were designed to get you thinking about some of the activities the charity does as well as thinking about the possibilities of being able to volunteer your own time and efforts towards the benefit of other people.

In the past ADMC has had very strong ties with volunteering and charity organisation both here and abroad.

Here in the UAE we have partnered with the Zayed Higher Organization and the Future Centre, offering opportunities for our students to work with people less privileged than themselves.

http://www.zho.ae/English/Pages/home.aspx

http://future-centre.org/x/en/home

During the second semester of 2012-13, ADMC ran a major charity fundraising week when students, staff and teachers of ADMC raised 25,000 Dh to donate to a school in a poor village Cambodia

http://honourvillage.org

This semester, we will be working with the Abu Dhabi Science Festival, helping to educate school children and the general public about how exciting science can be.

http://www.abudhabisciencefestival.ae/adsf2013.aspx

In groups, you need to select one charity from the UAE and put together a short presentation which you and the rest of your group can present to the whole class.

Think about the questions you were asked earlier on this worksheet as a way of guiding you.

Important: There are no right or wrong answers for such an exercise. This should be a presentation which gives information about the charity you have selected, and that information should be the ideas that you would like other people to know about.

Here are a few suggested websites for you to use. Or, you could always select a different charity to present.

Your presentation should last approx. 8-10 minutes (which should include time for questions).

OVER TO YOU J

http://www.gulf4good.org/en

http://www.cancer.ae

http://www.dcsneeds.ae

http://www.volunteerinuae.com

http://www.sheikhmohammed.com/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2511850c9b974310VgnVCM1000004d64a8c0RCRD&vgnextchannel=6a51fd70bdc04310VgnVCM1000004d64a8c0RCRD&vgnextfmt=default&date=1325067335027

http://www.takatof.ae/english/

http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/where-we-work/middle-east-and-north-africa/red-crescent-society-of-the-united-arab-emirates/