My Self Reflection

My Self Reflection

My course this semester teach me a lot of things especially in community service’s class. I though the study will be inside collage and they will give me for example homework’s and practice sheets to be ready for the exams, but the only class take me in other job and give an excellent exercise to help and volunteer in my community and help my society that what I need.

First of all, I was excited about the volunteer and I don’t have any experience about volunteer. Our teacher told us about some organization to register and to be a volunteer. We choose TAQATOF and there were a ceremony about dates inspire by HH Sheikh Khalifa Ben Zayed. The volunteering give me a lot of things I need such as self-confident, involved with other people, help and give advice for people learn from my mistake, community with deferent people and deferent culture, it change my look to life and I thing it make me a better person. In other hand, the deferent organization also involve with us which make our jobs difficult I lost a little of confident, get scared of the job which they give me I thought I can’t finish it on time.

Finally, the experience make me to open my mind and looking forward to volunteer in spare time and hopeful I’ll be volunteering in the summer. When you trying to help that give you feeling that I’m important person I need to help I need to be a good person. That what volunteering about. 

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.

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.        Construction of 858 masjids

b.        Drilling of 2254 wells

c.        Building houses.       

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

a.        Palestine

b.        Sudan

c.        Pakistan

d.        Syria

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

188 million dirhams.

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

-          External Project

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	Rebuild the damages
	disasters	Danger that could kill or make big damages
	crises	Time of great disagreement or confusion
	rehabilitation	To return someone or something to a good or healthy condition.
	infrastructure	Basic services that a country uses to work efficiently.
	devastation	Damage and destruction
	public utilities	An organization that supply the community

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

a.        Floods

b.        Earthquakes

c.        Volcanoes

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

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

a.        First aid

b.        Volunteer work methods

c.        The International Humanitarian Law

UNICEF + Takatof Activity: Exercise #6

UNICEF Activity 1:

Open the link http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uae_44659.html

List and discus the latest news line events in the United Arab Emirates

1-   Support quality education to break the cycle of poverty

2-    Supplies southern Somalia

3-    Arab Media Award on Child Rights initiated to honor outstanding achievements

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
Health Awareness	Going out and tell them about the health and the healthy foods
Abroad poverty Aid	Make some campaigns to collect money to help them
Sports activities in the beach	Making some competition on the beach and tell the people about importance of sport
Support the traffic week	Making more awareness signs and tell the people about the traffic rules

 Takatof

Activity 1

What is Takatof?

-          It is a local foundation for volunteering. It is motivate people for volunteering in different places. Also they help the community in different events.

Which year did start? And who started it?

  -     It was established in 2005, started by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?

-   Taktouf Ramadan Project
-   Tornado recovery Aid
 -   Jacket distribution campaign 
-    Formula 1 project 

How can you help?

      -  I can volunteer with them to help the community whether it is here or abroad because the

          main purpose for volunteering is helping other people.

Volunteering in different spheres of society - Exercise #5

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning

Week 4

Looking at volunteering in different spheres of society.

During the summer of 2012 the Olympic Games were held in London. David Moorcroft is a former athlete. At one point he held the world record for the 5,000 metres. David can be heard discussing the importance of volunteering the Olympic Games.

Zoe Hall is a lady who was one of the volunteers at the Games. She talks about the event and how important it was at the time as well as how much it has inspired her to continue working as a volunteer.

This link is about half way down the page.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/

Listen again and see if you can work out the answers to these questions about the interview:

1.               How old were the Games volunteers? ______________all ages _______________

2.               During the Games, the volunteers had a special title. What was this special title? ______________game maker____________________

3.               Complete this quote from David… “… for a moment in time volunteering had a __________profile__________________ and an ________________image_________________ that they fully __________deserve ________________ but don’t always get.”

4.               David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? _________half retired_(part time job)

5.               Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located? ____Olympic stadium

6.               How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? - ---  best experience on her life

7.               What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.       Fun

b.       Confidant

c.       Meet new people

d.       Satisfaction

8.               Why does David feel that volunteering in the community is so important?

He is proud and thankful for people whom are relying on volunteers and in people on communities.
 This page is also from AGE UK.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/volunteers-week/

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur	Admin and information
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey analyst volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Copy writer volunteer
4	Stanley Parker	Market Drayton shop volunteer
5	Camilla Williamson	Volunteer parliamentary assist

Look again at these people and their jobs. What can you say about volunteering from the information in your chart?

This shows that volunteers can find several places and many jobs to help people

People can do whatever they want without caring for their ages.

Human Rights Activity/ Exercise #4

Human Rights Activity/ Exercise #4

1.     Present the map to the whole class.

·         Did any parts of your map have a high concentration of rights? How do you explain this? 

Yes, there are some area had mosques , government schools and houses.

·         Did any parts have few or no rights associations? How do you explain this?

No, because there are separated area and deferment locations 

·         Are there any articles of the UDHR that seem to be especially exercised in this community? How can this be explained?

Right 26 : Right of Education 

We have  many schools and universities between public of privet 

·        Are there any articles of the UDHR that no group included on their map? How can this be explained?

Airport " Right 13 : Right to free movement in and out of the country"

How could town/city planners might use information like this when they develop areas for their citizens?

by this the planners can divided the rights equally by the areas then they could ask people about their opinion

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

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 –

-       TKATOF   (Khalifa International Date Palm Award)

   2.    Names of group participants:

1.       Omar Salem Alteniji

2.       Abdulaziz AlShooq

3.       Turki AlMansoori

4.       Ali Salem AlHashmi

5.       Saleh AlKurbi

   3.    Organization (name) and contact person (supervisor + email):

-       TAKOF- Mohammad AlAamri

   4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

-       The target which they give must be done smoothly without any confuse.

-       Time for know about the conference and people who will joining the ceremony.

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

-       Two days of volunteering from 15^th to 16^th march.

-       From 08:00am to 13:00 and from 16:00 to 19:00

   6.    To be successful what need to be done?

Ex: In the end, students must be able to type 20wpm English typing.

-       Ask about the events and what is important thing they need from us

-       Choose a target and try to finished before take a new one

-       Be a confident in your job

-       Try to help the people if they confused about the conference and location

-       Co-ordinate with conference staff

   7.    What are the Benefits to the participants? (Both volunteers and recipients)

-       Skill in communication, experience in teamwork, finished our target in good way, relationship with other people from other countries.

   8.    What are the aims of the project

-       To get more skill in community

-       To get knowledge from deferent people

-       Working independent.

   9.    Who are the target audience, and why?

- Important people from our society

- A lot of embossers.

-Deferent people for other countries  

  10. What activities would your project involve?

- Give the people information about the conference and help the specials need to let pass smoothly. Also organize the visitor’s cards and give it to them and guide the visitors into conference.

  11. Who would be volunteering?

- Collages including the staff (admin, teacher’s, student)

and who want to help the society.

  12. What are the benefits your project could bring to the target audience?

- The benefits was we get knowledge about some companies that help the palms and dates, also they have some experiments about the dates and how you make it sweeter.

  13. What problems do you think you might come across and how would you try to get around them?

-The staff who works in the is ceremony were unorganized and the made volunteers job difficult some of the visitors they asking for some managers we don’t know him. The supervisor must show the volunteer the manager and the staff.