project - 3nd day in ZHO

12/16 Hours - 30/04/2014

 

In the third day in ZHO, we surprised to see Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed visiting ZHO but unfortunately we didn’t meet him personally. After that, we had an interesting program in a new workshop. It was the carpentry workshop and we start our work by helping the students to finish their work. Also, we educated them some proper ways to cut equal parts of wood, fitting the screws in the proper place, and choosing the suitable screw for each object. Despite this, carpentry workshop students are very kind and funny. They like to make you smile hole of the time and they love their instructor very much and respect him.

When we finished the workshop class, we went to the music hall and dance with our friends. Also, we played with them some interesting games. It was really interesting day.

project - 2nd day in ZHO

THE SECOND DAY IN Z.H.O.

8/16 Hours - 27/04/2014

In the second day at ZHO, we had an interesting program. At the beginning of the day, we had a football match versus ZHO team. It was an interesting match and we end with score of 7-7. After that, we went to the wood workshop to see what they are doing. Then, we went to the welding workshop and we started the hard work there. We cooperate with the instructor and the students to organize the equipment and the tools in the workshop. Also, we separated a big amount of mixed nuts, plus sign screws, minus sign screws, and bolts and we put every type of them in different boxes to make the workshop well organized and look tidy and clean. At the end of the day, we made a birthday party for our creative student who is Salem ALbolooshi and we ate some cake and we shared it with our handicap friends in the workshop.

project - 1st day in ZHO

THE FIRST DAY IN Z.H.O.

4/16 Hours - 20/04/2014

In the first day of our volunteering work, we met Ms. Fatima ALhameli which is the supervisor of students who come from collages to volunteer in ZHO. She is very helpful woman and cooperative. Then we went to the auditorium to get the instructions and warning in working and communicating with some groups of handicaps.  After that, we met Mr. Rajaa who is the supervisor of the workshops in the organization. He reminds us of the important safety rules inside the workshops. Then we went to many workshops like the electronic workshop. It is one of the most interesting workshops and Mr. Rajaa explained to us the goal of this workshop and we looked at some works of the handicap students. Also, he showed us a project that they are working on it in these days which is recycling light bulbs and make it usable without spending money on buying new light bulbs. Also, we went to the wood workshop and all other workshops with Mr. Rajaa and he showed us how do they work and he also showed us the achievements of handicaps who work in workshops. It was really wonderful. Finally, every one of us should choose a workshop to work on it the next days and I choose wood workshop because I like these manual types of workshops. That was our first day in ZHO.

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.

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.        Send food and essential goods for the poor countries.

b.        By making new projects that are for the palestinian red crescent  

c.        Bxpanding the camp all the way to Jordan for the Syrian refugee.

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

a.        Egypt.

b.        Afghanistan.

c.        Syria.

d.        Maldives.

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

Over 180 million.

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

The external 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	Rebuilding
	disasters	mischances
	crises	problem
	rehabilitation	recovery
	infrastructure	Building and streets
	devastation	destruction
	public utilities	Public services

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

a.        Deluge.

b.        Earthquake.

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 method.

c.        The international humanitarian law.

Exercise #6

UNISEF 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 achivments.

2- Giving money to Jeboti.

3- Stop the violence in south Sudan.

UNISEF 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	Going out to the community and aware them about some kinds of food.
Abroad Poverty Aid	Going to the countries that are poor and needs help and provide to them some essential food to live.
Sports activities in the beaches	By doing sport carnival and try to make people in love with sports and daily exercises by telling the importance of doing exercises.
Support the traffic week	Publish some photos of danger accidents that happened to make people be aware to drive fast and to be restricted by traffic rules.

# Takatof

What is Takatof?

Is the program that serves the community by volunteering citizen people to help others. And it is a nationwide volunteering initiative in the United Arab Emirates.

Which year did start? And who started it?
It was established in 2005 by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed AL Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?
They did many projects that help the community and also in the emergency cases. For example, they did maintenance and reconstruction for some schools in the UAE. Also, they have participated in many emergency cases like when some homes had a flood because of heavy rains in the northern area of the country.


How can you help?
By joining them to serve the society inside or outside the country. Also, by motivating them to develop their programs and do the best.

Exercise #5

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 images that they fully deserve but don’t always get.”

4.                  David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? 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? Fantastic, an experience

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.       Meet new people.

b.      confidence.

c.       fun.

d.      satisfaction.

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

Because the organization will support the volunteers of all ages of the community with all the free time they have.

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur	Age UK harpenden volunteer
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey analyst volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Copywriter volunteer
4	Stanley Parker	Market drayton 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?

Stanley is 95 while Oliver is 17. And as we can notice the difference in age between them, we can say that age doesn’t matter is have abilities to be an engineer.