my first day volunteer

( First Day 8/15 Hours  )

15-3-2014
SATURDAY
 8 AM / 3 PM

My first day volunteer in The Khalifa International Date Palm Award inside of Emirates palace with takatof that well announce at Sunday morning , were always filled with anticipation and excitement as to what tasks my day will involve. 

The volunteers where 4 of my classmates and 5 more people. upon arriving at the emirate place our supervisor split us into 3 groups for the 2 days where we would take turns at getting the guests from the main door and say welcome and lead them to the hall, helping the special needs and kids, show the guests the history of date palm and we had to arrange around 750 bags.

 



 After we had split each one took his position and start working to get ready for tomorrow it was a great experience as a volunteer I was helping others, but I also helped myself. I was very nervous on my first day, but i mange to remove the nervous after i start to recognize that all my life I’ve always loved helping people and serving and giving back in any way I can. 

All my worries were gone instantly.I had fun, enjoyed the guests and my team.It built my self-esteem a lot!  I felt great seeing that I can contribute my time and knowledge to be part of a team. My supervisor was great, he guided me, taught me how to interact with guests. Every hour was a new experience for me and the volunteers . I probably waited for the next day with bigger anticipation . In my opinion "volunteer is not all about benefiting the people you know best, but it’s  helping those complete stranger who need you most.”

My second day volunteer

( Second Day 15/15 Hours ) 

16-3-2014

SUNDAY

8 AM / 2 PM

My second day volunteer with The Khalifa International Date Palm Award inside of Emirates palace with takatof  , where much the same, filled with hard work we had to get ready to welcome the guest and to lead them to there chairs,to check the names of guest that are ambassador,student or participate.

Before 20 minutes from starting the ceremony  each volunteer went into his group and start to do what he was told to do. For my group we had to welcome the guests and lead them and we also had to help the Special Needs. At last after ceremony ended we had the honer to shake hands with his highness sheikh HAMED and his highness sheikh NAHYAN .

The ceremony was amazing، people from all over the world were there and had the chance to meet many Important figures and form a good relationships with some. At that moment i renumber my teacher JOHN VRHOVNIK when he always says 

(For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction). 

Finally i like to say that Volunteering is about giving, contributing, and helping other individuals and the community at large. It is working with others to make a meaningful contribution to a better community.

UNICEF Activity 1:/ Exercise 6

                      

UNICEF Activity 1:/ Exercise 6

Open the linkhttp://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 honor outstanding achievements.

It is a new award that recognizes media stories that accurately depict the situation of children and young people in the Arab nations of the Middle East.

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

Unicef and the Gulf charity Dubai Cares organize a program that support education programs in Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia and the Middle East.

3-    Former camel jockeys reclaiming their lost childhood.

They sent thousands of other children who work as camel jockeys to their homes.

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
Children protection	Protect them from weather, disease, by build house. Shelter, toilet.
Sports activities in the beach	By doing a sport event that will tell the people to know the importance of sports and the exercises.
Health Awareness	Going out to the community and aware them about the food.
Basic education and gender quality	Send for them cloths, bag, books, teacher (basic needs).

Takatof :/Exercise 6

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?

  The Takatof programmer for social volunteering is a nationwide volunteering initiative in the UAE.   

Which year did start? And who started it?

established in 2005 under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed
 What volunteer work have they done?

1- Takatof for school renovation 
2- Takatof for special needs 
3- Takatof for ramadan project 
4- Takatof house renovation survey 
How can you help?

Joining Takatof team and start to volunteering their to get an experiences and helping the people or learning a new things that will help you in future. 

Human rights activity2 /Exercise 4

Human rights activity2  /Exercise 3

           Did any parts of your map have a high concentration of rights? How do you explain this?
Yes, 1-Embassy-Right to Asylum in other countries from persecution    
      2-Mosque-Freedom of belief and religion.
3-Hospital- Right to Life ,Liberty,Personal Security.
 Did any parts have few or no rights associations? How do you explain this?
No, because it’s spread 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
-Mosque-Freedom of religion
-Hospital - Right to Life
Are there any articles of the UDHR that no group included on their map? How can this be explained?
Yes, Airport , Right to free movement in and out of the country 
 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 them to reach anywhere.

Human rights activity 1:

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

Human Rights Activity1/ Exercise 3

Human Rights Activity1/ 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)

Charity and Volunteering in the UAE - Information and Activities/Exercise 7

Charity and Volunteering in the UAE - Information and Activities /Exercise 7

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.       Mosques

b.       Wells

c.       Building houses

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

a.      Syria

b.       Afghanistan

c.       Pakistan

d.       Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

180 million . 

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

                    Projects in health , education 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	To construct or form again ; rebuild
	disasters	Great harm, damage, death or serious difficulty.
	crises	A crucial stage or turning point in the course of something.
	rehabilitation	To return someone or something.
	infrastructure	Basic services(transport, power supply) that a country uses to work efficiently.
	devastation	To lay waste or make desolate; ravage; destroy.
	public utilities	Services supplied to public like water,gas and electricity.

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

a.    Earthquakes  

b.       Storms and the cyclone

c.       Floods

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

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

a.     First Aid

b.     Public Relations Committee and international law Alanasana

c.      Methods of volunteer work