My self reflection

My Self Reflection

Through out my volunteering experience I’ve learned a lot of things that can be helpful to myself. Originally, our group volunteered In the sheikh zayed sport city inside the ice rink and there was a hockey championship so our group helped to organize the championship by many ways and I am pretty sure that everyone of us has learned plenty from volunteering.

Frist of all, we were watching over the audience so they behave properly and we were not letting them around the pitch because the pitch was surrounded by plastic wall and the hockey ball is from steel so it is kind of dangerous. Secondly we had another job to be honest, we were organizing some gifts for the players.

Of course that helps me to improve my social skills before I was volunteering I wasn’t really that kind of person who can speak to anyone and asks them about many things even if he doesn’t know them but, fortunately, now once I’ve volunteered because in the volunteering program I had to go around asking people how to do this an how to do that and one of the biggest reasons that I volunteered apart from the project that I was bored in my home just watching youtube videos so that took me off my routine to a better routine that I can help myself and more importantly my community

In conclusion, I felt that I turned into a better person after I volunteered and as a person that volunteered many times I advice everyone who feels bored about his routine of school, work or even family commitments, to volunteer because in this way you’re not just killing time you’re helping yourself and your community.  

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 – Hockey championship

2.    Names of group participants:

      A- Ahmed Mahmoud Alhammadi        B- Abdulla Alwahdi

      C- Abdulla Bakheet                             D- Ali Fouad

      E- Hazza Alnauimi                              F- Abdulla Sultan

 

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

   Takatof

      Bu Mansour               Sultan Alaamri

4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

Ex: this project will help the students of Al Hosan School to develop their IT skills 

I wish to accomplish that the other countries see that the UAE is well-organized.

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

6 / March / 2014 – 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm ( 4 hours )

18 / March / 2014 – 2:00 Pm to 6 PM  ( 4 hours )

19 / March / 2014 – 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Then  8:00 Pm to 10:30 PM ( 4 and half hours )

20 / March / 2014 – 10 am To 2:00 Pm  ( 4 hours )

Total 16:30 hours )

6.    To be successful what need to be done?

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

Students should have the courage to talk to people directly if they didn't respect the rules.

 

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

 it helped me to be an organized person in my life and it helped the recipients to get more people so, the more the people the more the tournament is organized.

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.        Somal's poverty aid

b.        helping syria 

c.        building schools and hospitals to poorer countries.

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

a.        Yemen

b.        Somal

c.        Syria

d.        SouthAfrica  

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

it was nearly 181 million AED

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

                    External 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	Catastrophes
	crises	Disaster
	rehabilitation	Recovery
	infrastructure	Structure
	devastation	Damage
	public utilities	Services

 

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

a.        Tsunami 

b.        Earthquakes

c.        water shortage

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

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

a.        First aid

b.        volunteer work

c.        The international humanitarian law

Takatof - Exercise #6

UNICEF Activity 1:

Open the linkhttp://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uae_44659.html

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

1-Giving Money to Jeboti for vaccination and opening health facilities

2- Arab Media Award on Child Rights initiates 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 to the community and aware them more about the food they need to intake
Abroad Poverty Aid	Traveling to the countries that are in need and give them what they need to keep on living
Sports Activities in Corniche	Do a sports event that will gather all the ‘fat’ people, and tell them about the exercises that they need to do.
Support Traffic Week	Aid the police and make posters about the traffic week.

Click on the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMDUTjeymxk&feature=related

Activity 1

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

What is Takatof?

An organization of volunteering 

  

Which year did start? And who started it?

it started in 2005, H.H Sheikh Mohd Bin Zayed started it .
What volunteer work have they done?
Tornado Recovery aid.
takatof ramadan project.
organizing hockey championship.How can you help?
I actually volunteered with takatof when they organize the hockey championship , and it was really fun and I will be happy to volunteer with them again.

Volunteering in different spheres of society - Exercise #5

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning / Exercise #5

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. Then click on 'Hear more radio features' - page 2 Volunteering  - to hear the selection again..

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 makers

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

4.                  David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? Working half time

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? Fantastic experience.

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

            a- Fun

            b- meet new people

            c- Improve confidence

            d- Satisfaction 

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

It gives all kinds of experience to the volunteer, and it fills the empty space in one’s heart.

 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	Age UK Shop Volunteer
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey Analyst Volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Copy Writer Volunteer
4	Stanley Parker	Market Prayton shop volunteer
5	Camilla Williamson	Volunteer Parliamentary Assistance

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

I see that in the volunteering thing that age doesn't matter

Human Rights Activity / Exercise #3 - #4

Human right activity - Exercise 3 & 4

Esteem	Article 1	Article 2	Article 21	Article 29	Article 6
Physiological	Article 12	Article 24	Article 25	Article 28	Article 4
Self-actualization	Article 20	Article  18	Article 19	Article 27	Article 30
Love/belonging	Article 10	Article 15	Article 16	Article 20	Article 8
Safety	Article 3	Article 5	Article 14	Article 22	Article 23

Human Rights Activity 3:

1.     Working in pairs, go to Google Maps (or a similar site) and download an image of the map of the city of Abu Dhabi. It may be a part of Abu Dhabi rather than the whole city. It should include homes, major public buildings (e.g., parks, schools, mosques) and public services (e.g., hospitals, fire department, police station) and any other places that are important to the community (e.g., grocery stores, mall, gas stations). If they are not on the map, you should add them in the correct places.

2.     Analyze your map from a human rights perspective. What human rights do they associate with different places on their maps? For example, a mosque with freedom of thought and religion; the school with the right to education; the post office with the right to information, to privacy, and to self-expression. As they identify these rights, they should look up the relevant article(s) in the UDHR and write the article number(s) next to that place on the map.

3.     Present the map to the whole class.

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

No, because it’s an industrial area.

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

No, because it’s around the map.

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

Yes, article three, because there are police stations everywhere.

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

No

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

They can use the information by distributing the rights around the community so it will be easy for the citizens to reach anywhere.