Community Service Self-Reflection

My Experience in the Future Center

1.          I Volunteered in the future center in Mohammed Bin Zayed city this organization is for handicaps or the special needs , they are a specialist on treating special needs and their goal are involve the special needs on the community , The future center contain 300 Students Boys and Girls and each of them have a section , Future Center opened in 2000 and their main sponsor was sheikh (Nahyan Bin Mubark)

2.         It was an amazing experience for me to work in the future center, everyone was welcoming me since day one , my best part in this volunteering program was the trip to the bowling center in zayed sport city all the student were amazing and I was enjoying playing bowling with them , anther best part in volunteering program was the sport class , the students got amazing strength and power and they are so active they never tired of playing soccer .

3.     Volunteering Helped me a lot to understand the special needs , also I supported the community by volunteering and the knowledge that I got it from the future center , also I will share some tips with my family about special needs and how they communicate or treat them and by this way I will share my experience with the community and I will support the community on the same time

4.     I learned a lot of things in this volunteering program , 1^st I learned how to work on a team and solve problems , 2^nd I got communicating skills, 3^rd    I learned how to treat special needs,4^TH Special needs are amazing and they got some skills that normal people cant do so we must involve them in our community   , I learned a lot of things but those are the most important things I learned from the volunteering  program 

The Interview with Ms.anjum

the interview

Last Week in the future Center

      Firts of all i thank Mr.Greg to give us tjhis amazing opportunity , i dont want to leave cause i had a lot of fun and experience , in the last week all my students thank me for being in the class with them and they told that i must stay with them cause they liked me a loot so , it was a hard mommwnt for me to leave them they are like my brothers , in the last days in future center we did some mathematics and there was a lot ofproggres in their skills so i was so happy that i helped those young mans to learn some math ,,,, i wish if i can stayed volunteer in the future center for a longer time but i will never stop going their and visit them .    

Future center - Day 5&6

       in Day 5 in the future center i went to the bowling center with my class and thats help my class a lot to make their hands stronger , also when we went back i did some practice with my student saood on reading , in day 6 we did a lot of stuff arabic lesson , math , reading and drawing and my student (Abduallah)   started to attend all classes , that was a big progress i did with the help with his parents 

Future center - Day 3&4

Day 3 and 4 in the future center was amazing ,, i tried my best to help my two students with mathematics ( Abdullah , Saood) and im so shocked how they are smart ,, also im trying to solve some problems with abdullah in attending class and i will contact his parents soon to put them in the picture,,he is such a good student and he know a lot about phones and technology so i wish if i can solve that problem,,sorry about not posting pictures Mr.Greg as you know it's hard to take pictures in the future center and some of the parents dont like it . 

Future center - Day 2

The 2nd Day was amazing in the future center we did a lot of work and i helped some of the students in couple of thing like , learning Numbers , reading , and Mathematics and it was amazing , the students are so organized and clean so with the help from ms.Nadia and Mr.Mohammed i did my job as a volunteer .

Future Center-Day 1

It was a first amazing day in Future , i worked wthe ma.Nadia & Mr.Mohammed , also we did a practice for new hajrii year event and it also today it was a amazing day in future center and the kids was amazing and they treat me like a big brother . 

Volunteering Plan

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

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

1.    Title of plan –  (Volunterr for a better community)

2.    Names of group participants:

1-    Raad Awaana

2-    Mohammed Jasim Alhosani

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

Future Center

Ms.Anjum / Anjum1@Futurecn.ae

4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

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

  This Project will give me some communication skill , plus it will be my first time to deal with special needs , plus I will help them to learn more about my college life and help them with their lessons   

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

Monday – full 6 Hr / for  6 weeks and 12 days 60 Hours  

Tuesday – 4 Hr

6.    To be successful what need to be done?

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

They must learn about a new thing In science    

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

1-    Communication skills 

2-    Communty service 

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.      Construction projects (houses and mosques).

b.      Building houses and mosques.

c.       Education projects.

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

a.      Somalia.

b.      Lebanon.

c.       Palestine.

d.      Afghanistan.

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

-          180,830,333 DHS

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

-          Infrastructure, education and 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	Rebuild
	disasters	Ruin that happens because of nature
	crises	Ruins that happens because of human activities
	rehabilitation	Repair and recover
	infrastructure	Foundation, base
	devastation	Ruin
	public utilities	Public services

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

a.      Earthquakes.

b.      Flooding.

c.       Storms.

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: Exercise #6

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

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

-         Arab media Award on Child Rights initiated to honor outstanding achievements.

-         UNICEF and Dubai Cares support quality education to break the cycle of poverty.

-         Police boost AIDS campaign in Dubai.

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
Education for children	-         Volunteer as teacher. -         Donate books.	-
Protection from hard working	-         Awareness campaigns. -         Support laws that forbid children working in poverty countries.
Protect children from diseases	-         Donate medicines. -         Offer doctors -         Spread awareness through parents.
Clean sources of living	-         Build water filtering stations in poverty countries. -         Donate healthy food.

1.     Takatof - Exercise #6

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?

A social volunteering programme in United Arab Emirates that established in 2005.  Takatof vision is to offer a better community by offering people social volunteering projects.  It offers the society creative solutions under the dress of volunteering.

  

Which year did start? And who started it?

It starts in 2005 under the patronage of his highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?

They’ve worked on many projects, some of them were inside UAE while the others outside UAE.  For instance, training programs to develop the volunteer’s skills, Formula 1 project, Ramadan project and school makeover campaign.  Furthermore, Tanzanian project and Tornado recovery aid in USA are two projects that were outside the UAE.

How can you help?

We can offer them help by volunteer and join their training programs.  In addition, we can offer them some new ideas for projects that they may handle in the future.  Furthermore, we can spot the light on some issues in our society that they could fix by a creative volunteering project.

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?

* They were from 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?

            * They want to serve the community and want to do something for it.

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

            * In the Olympic Stadium.

6.                  How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics?

            * She said that it was the best experience in her life and it was fantastic.

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.       Satisfaction

b.      Meet new people

c.       Increase confidence

d.      Having fun

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

* David feels the importance of volunteering in the community because its improve confidence and experience by people relying on volunteer to do something.

 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 / Information volunteer
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey analyst volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Copywriter
4	Stanley Parker	Market Drayton
5	Camilla Williamson	Parliamentary assistant

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

·         There are a vary of jobs that offered to volunteers that suits all ages, in addition, it is organized well and each one feel the importance of his or her role.