My Self reflection

In this course we had a great volunteering in special needs, that volunteering was funny and helpful this experience will affect in our life in good way and what we learn there will be useful in the future.

We organize a group and the group was four students, the volunteering was in part of Zayed Higher Organization called Abu Dhabi Club for special needs. We have to teach the special needs how to do the exercise in right way and I use to do this exercise in the club so I know how to do that in right way because if they do the exercise in wrong way then they will get injure. The interesting thing was that they have earned many gold medallions in different sports which is a good job from the disables who are playing this sports it’s a great work from special needs.

What I learn from this volunteering was very helpful in my life intel now I think about them and I say if they can do this even they are disables people but they didn’t give up and they work hard to get what they want so why I give up. I have to work hard to get what I want in my life. Also, I learn how to talk with them and how to make them feel comfortable and calm, I really thanks my teacher because if he didn’t order from as to volunteering we will not meets this people, I really enjoyed in this volunteering with my group and with the special needs people.

I am thinking about them right now and I miss them very much and I have to go there and treeing with my friend.    

The Fifth Day Of Volunteering ( 17th May 2014 )

The fourth Day Of Volunteering ( 5th May 2014 )

The Third Day Of Volunteering ( 30 April 2014 )

Third day was like every day funny and we played in other field with new friend.

 

Like you see in the photo, there is some one in the right he is siting, he's name Omar and he is kind and funny.

In the photo you can see me with the ball, I try to make goal for my tame.

This video is very funny, I will not tall you what happen see the video and you will know, Amani take this video when I playing football  

The Second Day Of Volunteering ( 29 April 2014 )

In this day I went to the volunteering alone because It was my second day and they start before one week so I have to catch up them. but the sad thing is I didn't take photo because no body was with me :( 

But I join them in the training and help them like first day, then I play football all the day and it was funny to play and challenge them because they take the challenge seriously... 

The First Day Of Volunteering ( 28 April 2014)

the first day was very funny and i enjoy with my class meet ( Abdulrahman Khalid , Amani Alshaami , Haleema Alhosani )  

First the couch showed as the Attendance and the schedule for them and what Championship they do have. and what they must learn also he said that we must be attention for any reaction from them and we must be calm, then we started excising them into three groups.

like you see I take my group then I said to my tame that we must win and never give up and be calm and try to make goals, they was happy to be with my tame I didn't know why !!

also they call me captain SAEED hhhh that's was very nice from them 

I was very happy because they was kind and didn't make problems.  

then I feel board and i decide to run with every player and tall him what to do and how to play, i run with them from the start to the end, they was do what I learn them if you was there you will see that they never give up until they learn how to play.

I in this photo you can see me and abd alrhman and someone I try to teach him how to control the ball,
I think that boy talent he was the bast of them and he was said to me I want to play like you teach me hhh
I enjoyed with him.

Abd alrhman was looking to me and he said you will never stop !!? then I said that is my life ( football ) .
I am very happy to be with my group and I wish to be in this place forever .

Project plan

Project plan

“Abu Dhabi Club For Special Needs”

 

Group members:

Haleema Alhosani

Amani Alshaami

Abdulrahman Khalid 

 saeed alhashmi

Organization information:

       Abu Dhabi Club For Special Needs

*Contact person

       Faleh Alfaisal

     Manager – Abu Dhabi club for special needs

     Tel: 026985899 – Mob: 0504673666

 

Time/ schedule:

Our group will volunteer 4 weeks in the club (Monday&Wednesday)

Starting 15^th April 2014 – 4 hours per week divided into two days a week.

 but I start on 28 April 2014 

Target Audience:

Mental disability – multiple disabilities – physical disability and

Speech disorder members. Different ages and UAE nationalities only.

 

Activities:

Sport trainings

-       Boling

-       Football

-       Basketball

-       Running (Jogging)

 

 

 

Aims of project:

For this project we will have the ability and the knowledge of dealing with disable people and helping them to achieve their goals.

 Also we will have an experience of dealing with the special needs people.

Planning and preparing is the most important purpose of this project.

We will improve the plan of the club in the future.

 

Benefits:

We are dealing with disable people and they have special needs and we should know how to deal with them, so we had prepared before meeting them by searching in websites and reading about it.

They are sensitive people and our actions sometimes reflect on them so we have to be attention to our actions.

Some skills we had learned understanding and give them the patient and support them, and listen to let them feel comfortable and gain confidence to encourage them to success and get their needs and be accepted in society.

 

 

Challenges:

 

Of course it might be some challenges there to pass and one of them is the comfortableness of the members (disabilities) with us, and that's considered as a big challenge and hopefully we can get through it and success with our project.   

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.      Constructionprojects - shelters and houses.
• b.      Building  mosques.
• c.       Education projects

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

• a.      Philippines.
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• b.      Lebanon.
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• c.       Palestine.
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• d.      Afghanistan.

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

-          180 million dirhams

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

• ·       Infrastructure
• ·       education
• ·       health projects.

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	Caused by nature
	crises	Caused by man made decisions
	rehabilitation	Repair and recover
	infrastructure	Foundation, base
	devastation	Damage
	public utilities	Public services

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

• a.      Lack of rain.
• b.      Earthquakes.
• c.       Storms.

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

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

• a.      First Aid.
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• b.      Volunteer work methods.
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• c.       The international humanitarian law.

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-    Arab media award on child rights initiated to honor outstanding achievements.

2-    Giving money to jeboti.

3-    Stop the violence in the South Sudan.

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 to the community and aware them about the food.
Abroad poverty Aid	Going to countries who need help to live and help them so they can live.
Sports activities in the beach	By doing a sport event that will tell the people to know the importance of sports and the exercises.
Support the traffic week	We must respect the police and respect the streets, published posters to aware the people to drive in a good and polite way in the streets.

 Takatof

 

 

Activity 1

What is Takatof?

-         It is a program for social volunteering is a nationwide volunteering initiative in the United Arab Emirates, and one of the principal initiatives of the Emirates Foundation.

 

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 would  not mind to volunteer and  help the community either it is big projects or it is small projects. Also I wouldn’t mind going abroad and helping the people who wants help because I’m a good citizen.