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.

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.      Building houses and mosques       

b.      Drilling of 2254 wells

c.     They do about 3298 project in 17 countries 

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

 

1-   Somali

2-   Pakistan

3-  Syria

4-  Yemen

 

 

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

 

around 190 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: Housing, health, education and other infrastructure 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	Rebuilt after being damaged
	disasters	an event or fact that was unfortunate consequence
	crises	Damage
	rehabilitation	the restoration of someone to a useful place in society
	infrastructure	the basic physical and organization structure and facilities
	devastation	great destruction
	public utilities	an organization supplying the community

 

 

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

1-   Hurricanes

2-   Floods

3-   Earthquakes

 

 

 

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

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

 

1-  First aid     

2- The International Humanitarian Law

3- Volunteer work methods

Human Rights Activity 2

Working in groups, use the tree on the next page (or you may want to stick several pieces of paper together and create a larger tree).

1.     Write on the tree those human rights that people need to live in dignity and justice.

1. Article 3:Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security.
2. Article 6:Right to Recognition as a Person before the Law.
3. Article 12:Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence.

  

UNICEF Activity 1 &Takatof : 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

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

 

2-   support quality education to break the cycle of poverty

3- Police boost AIDS campaign in Dubai (awareness against AIBS) 

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
Child survival and development	help them by send some psychology and have workshop for good nutrition
Children protection	1-Protect them from all weather by giving them clothes.   2-building shelters
Basic education and gender equality	provide for them books ,teacher building schools
HIV/AIDS and Children	Educate people about the dangers of this disease

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?

 

 

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 2007, by H.H.Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayad  Al Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?

1. Taktouf Ramadan Project 
2. Tornado recovery Aid
3. Community Projects (Makeover)

How can you help?
By volunteer with them to help the community.

Human Rights Activity/ Exercise #4

Human Rights Activity / Exercise #3

Human Rights Activity / Exercise #3

Human Rights Activity / Exercise #3

Human Rights Activity / Exercise #3

Working in pairs, discuss and choose 3-5 specific rights that relate to the different levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?  Mark on Maslow's Pyramid.. (attach)

1.right to life,liberty,personal security.( safety)
2. right to marriage and family.(love,belonging)
3.freedom of belief and religion. (esteem) 

4. right to social security. (safety)
5.right to rest and leisure (esteem) 

Exercise #5

 

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 deserve but don’t always get.”

4. David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? 
They working part 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?
Best experience in her life.

7.  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

 Meeting new people
 Feeling Satisfied
 Confidence
 fun

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

Organization that it will support the volunteers of all ages of the community with all the free time they have.

 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	Administration and Information volunteer
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey Analyst volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Copy Writer volunteer
4	Stanley Parker	Market Draytor Shop volunteer
5	Camilla Williamson	Volunteer parliamentary assistant

 

 

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

 

 Volunteering is available for all people no matter what is your ages and your job.

 

 

2and Day volunteer with Takatof FROM (8AM-2PM)

AWARD DISTRIBUTION CERMONY.

KHALIFA INTERNATIONAL DATE PALM AWARD.

ABU DHABI EMIRATES PALACE.

 

In the second day of our volunteering we went to Emirates palace at  8 am .When we arrived there we met our supervisor. He divided us in to groups and he explain for us what the job for each group in this event. The first group was at the door of the palace to welcome and greeting  the people and the second group was show the gusts the way the hall.

 The  third group his job was to arrange the guest entry by asked them to show their card.

 Because each gust  have a specific place to sit. The last group there job were telling the guest about the dates ,also about KHALIFA INTERNATIONAL DATE PALM AWARD and about the history of it.




 All the people whose came were an important people from different country . Also there were some of the guest were disable we had to arrange wheel chair and register their name in hotel registration and to be with all the time to help them.
 
  

 Then they asked us to greet sheik Hamed and sheik Nahayan who was the guest of honor. After that we give the people the gifts. Finally, when we finished we met the sheiks and they  thanks us for our hard works .They really were grateful for our efforts.   

Here is link For KIDPA ( Khalifa International Date Palm Award)

http://www.kidpa.ae/main.php?lang=E