Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Takatouf Activity 1


1- 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.

2- Which year did start? And who started it?
established in 2005 in the UAE under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and the Deputy Supreme Commander of UAE Armed Forces. Takatof was launched in Abu Dhabi in April 2007 with an inaugural school renovation event.
 
3- What volunteer work have they done?
A- Volunteering in the Health Sector:
Volunteers for this programme perform highly useful health and administrative activities at hospitals and health centres.
B- Takatof for Special Needs:
Participation in this programme provides frequent opportunities for volunteers to utilize their leisure time through voluntary work for people with special needs.
C- Takatof International Volunteering Programme:
This programme offers volunteers an opportunity to develop their skills and experiences outside the country, while taking part in socially responsible activities.
 
4- How can you help?
- I can help by volunteering one time at least with them, to help my society and to get some knowledge.
- Spreading the idea of volunteering is also a help for the organization and it will get people to volunteer and help.  

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

 Protecting our youths from the drugs



 - Doing seminars about the dangrous of the drugs and helping with the organization.
- Spread the awareness to the families.
- Visitng schools and make a group talk with the students  


 Helping everyone to be educated


 - Paying for anyone who can get education.
- Donate books.
- Open centers to teach the old people.



protecting the society from Chronic diseases


 - Periodically check for everyone specially the elders.
- spread the awareness about Diabetes because its one of the highest Chronic diseases in the UAE.



Geting the workers their rights


 - taking care of the workers in the UAE.
- punish anyone who miss with their rights. 
- giving them less work in the hot weather or provide them ways to keep them cold and protected. 




UNICEF Activity 1



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


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

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

3- They talked with youth participation about many topics that considered important for the society and the most important one in my consider  is about the AIDS, Its to spread the awareness  in the society. 

Saturday, September 27, 2014

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #5

Have a look at this page on the internet: http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/browse/sectors/education.html

This page has some ideas about how people can volunteer through education projects.

Once you have read through the pages, you need to work in groups of 4 or 5.
In your groups, come up with a project which you think can be advanced through an educational setting. There are no restrictions, but your idea should be innovative and should aim at adding real value to the people you are trying to help.

As you are working through your project, one of you should be putting together a short presentation (Powerpoint, etc) to explain to the rest of the group what you are trying to achieve.


Syrian volunteers help evacuees from Lebanon 26 July 2006

 The link:

1.              What are the aims of the project
Because of the war that was between Israel and Lebanon, many people from Lebanon travelled out of their country, so they needed a home, the Syrians build houses and centres for them, so the aim is to help the Lebnanes to have home in Syria and there was a lot of volunteers from Syria.
2.              Who are the target audience, and why?
The Lebnanes who moved from Lebanon because of the war.
3.              What activities would your project involve?
Building houses and shelters, providing water and food for the evacuated people from Lebanon, create a safe environment for them and get for them the care they need if someone needed a medical care.   
4.              Who would be volunteering? Why?
Everyone is involved in this, the families can donate money, food and cloths for the Lebanese, The students can work organizing the place for them, the charities could collect money from everyone to buy stuff for them like beds and blankets, and if their was a problem with the number of the families from Lebanon, and there are no more places for them, they can open the schools and every where is safe for them.
5.              What are the benefits your project could bring to the target audience?
Our project will help getting everyone what they need as fast as possible and we can collect money from people outside Syria to provide What they need here, and to organize the situation there, because if the number of the volunteers is high, the job will be easier for everyone, even for the people from Lebanon.
6.              How would you look into launching your project with reference to the relevant authorities in the UAE and in the country you have targeted?
There are many charities in the UAE that would help our project outside the country such as Red Crescent, they will provide what we need to travel and everything starting with the instruction until we got there and finish our project, And they will contact with the Syrian to inform them what we are going to do there.
7.              What problems do you think you might come across and how would you try to get around them?

We could face problems in the traveling and finding the right place to get our project on fire, and to secure the families from Lebanon. But to solve this problems we should contact with Competent authorities to organize the places and to secure the families from the fire shooting and everything that could hurt them.


*Quick note about this subject*
This was in 2006 when the Lebanon had problems in their country, and the Syrian people helped them wit everything they got. Now a days, Syria  have problems, a really huge problems and they need some where safe to be in, unfortunately the Lebnanese didn't anything to help them and they forgot everything the Syrians did for them! this is not the right morals of the arabian people, further they get over the media talking about how they are sick from the Syrians in their country! and they published many things on the walls saying that they don't want to help the Syrians and everyone who would help them he will get punished by swearing, and days ago the burned down the Syrians shelters in Lebanon! They should help them and to have some humanity and the shouldn't  forget what the Syrians did for them when they needed help.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #4

 This page is also from AGE UK.

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 volunteer
4
Stanley Parker
Market Drayton 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?

-They are enjoying helping others and they have a really good time,  and at the same time they get helped too,  so they are happy with the benefits, and you can see the different ages, most of them are elder, so when it comes to volunteering, it's not necessary to be young, age doesn't matter.

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #3


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?        Half work or they have a job but not all the 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 and she had a great time doing it.
7.              What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?
a.    Fun
b.    Meeting new people.
c.     Satisfied 
d.     Confidence
8.              Why does David feel that volunteering in the community is so important?

a. Helping the society is important.
b. Helping the organisation that depends on the volunteers