My Self Reflection

The volunteering experience made me learn a lot of new stuff, the first thing that I learned is that when you volunteer people who you volunteer for become happy to know that someone cares about them to do something that helps them without pay. Volunteering helped me find and meet new friends in the collage because part of my volunteering job was to go around collage and ask people questions in the survey. I also learned how to communicate with people from different places and languages, this can be helpful if I had to communicate later with people that are different from what I usually see.

 This experience made me realize how people can change from volunteering and become more helpful to our community in different ways. My volunteering experience made it easier for me to work in the future because I helped the collage in many different ways, one way was to ask people questions about the collage, or tell them about the new applications that the collage made. I also learned more about companies from the last volunteering jobs I had, it was to write the names, numbers, emails and P.O boxes of the companies that is useful to the collage in an excel sheet to make it easy for the collage to contact the companies instead of searching the business cards one by one.

Possibly if I volunteer next time what I would do differently is trying to know more about the things that will make my future job easier, and try to communicate more with my supervisor to make it easier for me to know how to communicate In my job.

project day 3

Today all we had to do is to put the name, phone numbers, PO box and emails from the business cards to an exel sheet to make things easier for the principle to search the number that he needs

i had difficulties putting the numbers in because i had to buy and install excel in my computer  so we had to work on one computer..

we put in almost 120 numbers until now in the computer and we are still trying to finish all of the business cards that the principle gave us.

7/5/2014 10:30 to 12:30  

project day 2

Wednesday 23/04/2013 10:30 Am - 12:30 Pm

Today i was assigned to do a survey for the college students,teachers ,staff and anyone in the college and our goal was to reach 500 students and we were almost 420 so we still needed 80 but today the library was kind or empty there were not too many students to survey so me and yousef decided to go to the cafeteria because most of the students go there, so we went to the canteen and we saw many of our friends there.

 and that was a relief because it wouldn't be easy to do a survey on someone we don't know, so we did the survey for like 10 of our friends and did 15 to other people.

http://www.youtube.com/feature=player_embedded

yousef interviewing a student and asking him about the survey.

project plan

Our project plan:-

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

Follow this template to organize the primary details about your volunteer project:

   1.    Title of plan – Library assistant.

   2.    Names of group participants:

1- Yousef Ahmed

2- Abdulazeez Mohammed

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

ADMC, Helen Weston , hweston@hct.ac.ae

   4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

To help the students who have difficulties searching for the things that they need in the library or in their studies

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

We will volunteer from 23-April -2014 , Around 16 hrs in four weeks

   6.    To be successful what need to be done?

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

After this event we need to be able to communicate with people who need help and help them achieve what they are looking for, because we will benefit from this a lot of things like how to develop our communication skills with people and try to get peoples' attention and convince all people that the library is a place where people can get information of anything they want easily and fast and they can learn and also have fun at the same time.

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

To give to our community, develop our organization, problem solving, and Teamwork and communication skills. So if we are success in those skills we will have a good reputation about our volunteering that people would want to benefit from us and be successful people.

   8.    What are the aims of the project

Give people people what they need and tell them about the importance about the library.

   9.    Who are the target audience, and why?

People in the society ,students, teachers and anyone who wants to learn. because we can build the community by learning new things.

  10. What activities would your project involve?

We will be helping the students in the library and doing a short survey about the library to them.

  11. Who would be volunteering?

Yousef, Abdulazeez

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

It will help target audience to consider going to the library is a great place for learning.

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

In the library the only difficulty i think we will be facing is when the library is crowded and many people ask you for help but we can only help one person at a time, But we will do our best to do our job fast and smart (: .

project day 1

My first day volunteering was easy and my task was simple it was to do a survey for the students in collage about the eBooks and pBooks

first i started asking the people in the library and it was easy then it started getting harder because i had to walk all over campus to ask students outside the library too the students were nice to me and answered all my questions then i started asking the security guards and teachers too. when i was done i interviewed a total of 21 people.

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.       In 2009 they build around 100 houses and made maintenance for many houses that owned by poor people around the UAE, and also they build and made a maintenance for a 19 mosques.

b.       They made projects for education and housing in Afghanistan, Siri-lanka, India Yemen and Palestine.

c.       Drilling of over 2254 wells total the cost of 12 million 993 thousands and 605  dirhams.

  

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

a.       Yemen

b.       Palestine

c.       Sudan

d.       Maldives

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

It costs over 180 million dirhams.

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

Housing, education, health 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	rebuilding
	disasters	catastrophe
	crises	Problem – squeeze
	rehabilitation	repair
	infrastructure	Foundation of building
	devastation	destruction
	public utilities	Public services

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

a.       hurricanes

b.       volcanoes

c.       Earthquakes

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

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

a.       First aid.

b.       Methods of volunteer work.

c.       Public Relations Committee.

Exercise 6

Voluntary and charitable Organizations

There are many local, national and international organizations that support people or projects around the word. Two of which are:

1.     Unicef

UNICEF is the largest and most powerful organization in matters concerning children. UNICEF is working in more than 160 countries to help children get a good and safe life.
UNICEF collects and distributes money to give children clean water and enough food, reasonable living conditions, medical aid and vaccines and the opportunity of getting an education.

UNICEF especially concentrates on helping children in specifically tough situation, such as orphans and children who live in areas of war or poverty.

In UNICEF’s annual report of 1990, the seven most important goals for the nineties are revealed:

1. To reduce the death rate for children who are less than five years old to one third of that of 1990. 2. To reduce the death rate of new-born children to half of that of 1990. 3. To reduce the malnutrition among children who are less than five years old to one third of that of 1990. 4. To ensure everybody access to clean drinking water and sanitary installation. 5. To give all children access to basic education, with the goal that 80% of all children will complete mandatory basic school.

6. To reduce illiteracy among adults to half of that of 1990, with specific attention to women’s access to education.
7. To protect children in specifically difficult situations, especially when it comes to armed conflicts.

UNICEF Activity 1:

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

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

1-    Arab Media Award on Child Rights initiated to honour outstanding achievements.

2-    Giving money to Jeboti.

3-    Stop the Violence In 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	Aware people to do sports and be healthy by eating healthy foods.
Abroad Poverty Aid	Search for people who need the life needs and give them money, food and love.
Sport activities in Abu Dhabi	Do a sport event to aware the people about the importance of sports and give them the chance to make some exercises.
Support Traffic week	Respect the rules that the police put and be a good drivers in the street.

2-    Takatof

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?

It 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 established in 2005 in the UAE under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?

1-Formula 1 project
2-Takatof  Ramadan project
3-Jacket distribution campaign
4-Tuscoloosa Tornado recovery Aid


How can you help?

I would volunteer and help the community, in any project big or small because I am a good citizen.