Final Community Service Self-Reflection

1.       Organization:

Volunteering is a great thing to do for your community, you’ll become more social, your confidence will, increase your patience and it will also draw a smile on others face. At first I had a course where I can serve my country through volunteering, I volunteered in taktof at  the Yas Marina Circuit for the Formula 1 final race that was biggest event in the UAE because it was final race and big event so a lot of came to saw that.

2.       Best part:

The best part is when, I helped the older man disabled to reach the site can view it, without that obscures the matter with him. He is from Germany and was happy because His first visit in my country and he took good idea about local. Also, my groups provide assistance for older persons to get to their chairs and to the exits and entrances of the runway and the nearest restaurants.

3.       Support the community:

The volunteering give me a lot of things I need such as self-confident, involved with other people, help and give advice for people learn from my mistake, community with deference people and deference culture, it change my look to life and I thing it make me a better person. In other hand, the deference organization also involve with us which make our jobs difficult I lost a little of confident, get scared of the job which they give me I thought I can’t finish it on time.

4.       Learn:

I learned in this course what the meaning of volunteering is and how it helps the people and me. The volunteering is working without payment and it help the people in so many ways like organizing the people in festivals and guiding the people, also I learned some new vocabulary for example reconstructions which mean rebuild. Volunteering is all about helping people in so many different ways and it also benefits me to be positive person in life. This course we learned about many companies and organization it main purpose helping people and it based of people who gladly spend their time or there have free time for them.

video about volunteering

http://youtu.be/Lz5enX2B9pE

 http://instagram.com/p/vqqeBzLQOd/

in the second link my friend Masaed said: he enjoying the event and ready to help anyone. 

Interview with our team leader

 The our team leader was Sultan Al Dahry  and here's the text of the interview:

 1-What is the interesting in volunteering with takatof?

Well interesting in volunteering with takatof nice and very special participate in.

2-What is the the skills and the experience that you gain in volunteer?

  I gained as volunteering with takatof and working in many events i gained the skill of communication and socializing with people because in this events mean you are managing with people.

3-What is the difficulties that you face it in volunteer?

   My difficulties is or what i did faced is sometimes you mamage to work with many kind of people from everywhere and  not everybody are alike everybody is different amd you have to know or to have the right way to approach thees people to gain their interest and overall you have to smile and be happy.

4-What do you want to say to young emirate people to attract them to volunteer?

What i would like to say come and join us you will enjoy all the events and it is for your benefits and good for you and your future you will learn and it is welling your CV.  

    https://soundcloud.com/musaed-3/takatof

The second day of volunteering

Today at 10 am I exist in a tent Alshama to prepare for the second day is no doubt that the second day will be harder than the first has been our distribution to new locations is that we present where yesterday I enjoyed the new place at the main gate but it was difficult because I am in frontage to visitors and you help them in everything and anything knowing inquired from officials on us and people were many and dimensions have been changed where I am on the surface of the runway at 8 pm we returned by bus to the tent Alshama because the log in and log-out is not to out there and we cannot get it completed the third day, which is tomorrow due to exams.

The first day of volunteering

We have our presence at 10 am in a tent Alshama to record and stop the car there and take the passes and after the arrangements we went to the Yas Marina Circuit at 12 pm and then we started our work in helping people in I was outside the runway Tell people about the sites and sites that should be sober present them and give them the guide and the sun was burning today I was standing four hours, and then took a Break 10 mins and the strategy that they belong change places so as not to tire of your sites that have covered most of the places have been changed where I am inside the amphitheater where high volume spam am to 8 pm and then we left Yas Marina Circuit.

The second day of Orientation

On Friday our presence in the media center at the Yas Marina Circuit from noon 3 pm to 8 pm, and I threw director unite his keynote speech and read the new program can all be downloaded from Apple Astor sets you interior places in the ring and gives you information about them under the supervision of the Yas Marina Circuit staff and also the distribution of leaders Captain Tim and groups on their supervision and sites identified and the border, which fall within the permissions required as a volunteer and team captain has told us that we will be on the three teams will be determined next time.

The first day of Orientation

 We have discussed a number of important things in volunteering pm 15:00 pm to 20:00 Friday and met with the director of concerted program to volunteer at the Yas Marina Circuit and listened to him and gave to all the volunteers words belong to volunteer a cooperation and the spirit of sharing and hand-one team spirit does not complete the individual but the group and also identified the leaders and supervisors of the program to volunteer and to identify the groups and divided and distributed to the tasks that will be working on volu
nteer in volunteering and has overseen we also trained competent on a number of activities for our training on the collective work together and overcome all difficulties and not surprising from the pressure that it is possible that we face and I've got our team the third place out of 12 teams involved in the volunteer program, which includes
activities in the spirit of cooperation.

Takatof Activity 3

  What is Takatof?

A program for social volunteering and helping people who suffered from natural disasters mostly.
  Which year did start? And who started it?

They started at 2005,  by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. What volunteer work have they done?

• Takatof for School Renovation

• Takatof Ramadan Project

• Volunteering in the Health Sector

How can you help?

We can help them by entering one of their volunteering programme and supporting the people that needs help by giving them what they need so they have a basic life start.

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.

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 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. 

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.

You should aim to cover the following points, at least.

1.                  What are the aims of the project

2.                  Who are the target audience, and why?

3.                  What activities would your project involve?

4.                  Who would be volunteering? Why?

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

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?

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

You should aim at one or two of your group making a 4-6 minute presentation to the rest of the group explaining your findings.

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 in London.

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?

a.    Fun

b.    Meeting new people.

c.     Experience 

d.     Improve your confidence

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

a. Helping the society is important

b. Helping the organization that depends on the volunteers 

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #4

 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 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?

There are no limits to the ages and also no limits to the experience you can gain from volunteering.

Human Rights UDHR - and Maslow

Human Rights Activity 1:

Working in pairs, discuss and write how these rights relate to the different levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

1.Article 3 personal security relates to Moslow  is need for personal safety

2. Article 16- the right to Family and marriage-Moslow 3 love&belounging

3. Article 22- the right to social security and right to develop-Moslow 4 Esteem

Questions for CSL Organization Research

1.   The Main goal(s) / purpose of the organization?      
..........            

 2.   History? When started by whom?

 2003 by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan 

3.   Organization – Where is the headquarters? Who is CEO?    

 Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan       

4.   Areas/ countries active?         

Around the world                              

 5.   Target recipients?  

   Everyone need help around the world    

 6.   Benefits/ resources provided?  Short term vs. long term?

   Response Program, which was launched in 2009; to enhance the skills of medical staff and management in the field of emergency medical response. Program: Prevention, which aimsto enhance the degree of health awareness among members of society.Training Without Borders program, which aims to train medical staff, and the development of their performance in emergencies and disasters. Initiative: "Reach tender", and aims to re-Sight, and correct deformities of children, has been launched by Her Highness SheikhaFatima Mubarak.

 7.   General profile of a volunteer – Who would/should get involved?  

  Everyone can volunteer in Zayed Giving Initiative

Human Needs Activity 3

1.     Does every human being have the right to reach the top of the Maslow pyramid?

Yes, as a human beings we all can reach the top

2.     Does every human being have the capability of reaching that level?

No, because some people don't have the basic needs like food, water and property

3.     What are the opportunities are needed to get to the higher level?

You got to have a lot of confidence in yourself, and when you see a chance to achieve something grab it and achieve it, don't waste the chances

4.     What are the obstacles could stand in the way of reaching these levels?

Living in a bad environment where there are no safety, have low self esteem about yourself and doing nothing, being not creative

5.     What could you do to help others to reach the higher levels?

By helping them to surpass the basic needs by supporting them, encouraging them to have acceptance about themselves and be more creative.

Human Needs Activity 2

Match the specific needs with the five levels by writing the level number in front of each need.

                       

1.     Self-actualization                                                       _5__ Water

                                                                                           _1__ Problem solving

                                                                                           _3__ Affection

2.     Esteem

                                                                                           _3__ Family

                                                                                           _3__ Social interaction

                                                                                            
  3.     Love/Belonging                                                       _5__ Sleep          

                                                                                      
                                                                                           _4__ Employment                                                                                      

                                                                              _5__ Health

 4.     Safety  

                                                                              _4__ Property

                                                                              _1__ Creativity

                                                                              _2__ Confidence

                                                                              _5__ Food

5.     Physiologica

                                                                             _1__ Passions

                                                                              _2__ Respect

                                                                              _4__ Resources