Volunteer Project plan form

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

    Follow this template to organize the primary details about your volunteer project:

     1.    Title of plan –

Supporting the region's Special Needs Community Conference.

     2.    Names of group participants:

j       a-Abdelrahman Khalid Abdalla ALHaarthi

d      b-Haleema yousef AlHosani

        c-Amani Alshamei
d        d- Saeed Mohamed Alhashemi

     3.    Organization (name) and contact person (supervisor + email):  

       Faleh Meshaal - faleh,mushaal@zho.ae

     4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

     5.    Time/ schedule: students will volunteer for how many hours / week? Days?   

      2 hours per days-16 hours for the project

      6.    To be successful what need to be done?

Ex: In the end, students must be able to type 20wpm English typing.  

              

      7.    What are the Benefits to the participants? (Both volunteers and recipients)

 8.    What are the aims of the project

2    9 .    Who are the target audience, and why?

3   10 .    What activities would your project involve?

         playing with them - guiding them - helping and being the coach on them

4   11 .    Who would be volunteering?

5   12 .    What are the benefits your project could bring to the target audience?

6   13 .    What problems do you think you might come across and how would you try to get around them?

Exercise #7

LSH 2903 – Community Service 

 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 projectsboth inside and outside the UAE. Name three projects the UAERC has worked on

a.Construction of 858 masjids

b.Drilling of 2254 wells

c.Building houses.       

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

a.Sudan

b.Palestine

c.Pakistan

d.Syria

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

188 million dirhams.

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

                  Projects in areas of housing, 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	Building something that has been damaged or destroyed.
	disasters	Great harm, damage, death or serious difficulty.
	crises	Time of great disagreement or confusion
	rehabilitation	To return someone or something to a good or healthy condition.
	infrastructure	Basic services(transport, power supply) that a country uses to work efficiently.
	devastation	Damage and destruction
	public utilities	Services supplied to public like water,gas and electricity.

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

a. Floods

b.Earthquakes

c.Volcanoes

7.Crescent Volunteers University

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

a.First aid

b.Volunteer work methods

c.The International Humanitarian Law

Exercise #6

Takatof Activity+UNICEF  : Exercise #6

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-  Police boost AIDS campaign in Dubai.(It's a campaign to aware people about AIDS and it included a march through the streets of Dubai).

 
2-Arab Media Award on Child Rights initiated to honour outstanding achievments.(It's an award for the best written story that represents best the children rights).

3-UNICEF and Dubai Cares support quality education to break the cycle of poverty.(It's a campaign to collect donations to educate 1 million child).

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
Basic education	Send books, stationery and volunteering teachers.     -
Child survival and development	1-Sending psychologists to make the children feel better even though they're living in harsh conditions. 2-Sending nutritionists to help fight malnutrition.
Children protection	1- Protect them from hot weather by sending air conditioners. 2-Protect them from cold weather by sending heavy clothes and building shelters.
HIV \ AIDS and children	1-Cooperate with red crescent to provide medicines and doctors within and out of the country. 2- Educate people about the dangers of this disease.	-

1.     Takatof - 

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 voluntary social program that provides youth with social and humanitarian volunteering opportunities to help others that aren't capable of helping themselves.

  

Which year did start? And who started it?It started in 2007 by His Highness Sheik Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?1-Community Projects (Environment): Spread awareness among youth to build an environment conscious culture.

2- Ramadan Projects: Spread responsibility among volunteers and allow them to help others in the holy month.

3-Community Projects (Makeover): Give the youth a chance to help maintain community centres and houses of underprivileged families.

How can you help?By getting involved in the projects initiated by Takatof to help others and give back to my community.

Exercise #5

Volunteering in different spheres of society - Exercise #5

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning 

Week 4 - Looking at volunteering in different spheres of society.

During the summer of 2012 the Olympic Games were held in London. David Moorcroft is a former athlete. At one point he held the world record for the 5,000 metres. David can be heard discussing the importance of volunteering the Olympic Games.

Zoe Hall is a lady who was one of the volunteers at the Games. She talks about the event and how important it was at the time as well as how much it has inspired her to continue working as a volunteer.

This link is about half way down the page. Then click on 'Hear more radio features' - page 2 Volunteering  - to hear the selection again..

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/

Listen again and see if you can work out the answers to these questions about the interview:

1-How old were the Games volunteers?

They were from all ages.

2-During the Games, the volunteers had a special title. What was this special title?

 Games Makers because without the games wouldn't have really existed.

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're delivering a message to the community what to continue to do so.

5-Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located?

 In Olympic Stadium.

6-How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics?

 It was the best experience of her life

7. What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.Fun

b.Satisfaction

c.Confidence

d.Meeting new people

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

1- They're a unique bunch of people.

2-Organizations depend on them from all ages.

3-They give some of their valuable time to the community.

 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	Parliamentary Assistant.

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

Volunteering isn't restricted for a specific age range or unemployed people. Its a humanitarian job that anyone can do to give back to their society.

Exercise #4

Human Rights Activity/ Exercise #4

   1.     Present the map to the whole class.

Did any parts of your map have a high concentration of rights? How do you explain this?

Yes, AlBaladiya area had a lot of prayer places, government authorities, shopping centre, schools and houses.

 Did any parts have few or no rights associations? How do you explain this?

 No, they were almost evenly distributed all around the map.

     Are there any articles of the UDHR that seem to be especially exercised in this community? How can this be explained?

Article 18: Freedom of Belief and Religion.

As we've got multiple masjids in each area to fulfill people needs to practice their prayers.

 Are there any articles of the UDHR that no group included on their map? How can this be explained? 

Article 13: Right to free movement in and out of the country.
As none of the maps showed the Airport.
Article 24: Right to Rest and Leisure.
People living in Mussafah are experiencing a lot of noise and therefore can not really rest because its an industrial area.

How could town/city planners might use information like this when they develop areas for their citizens?

Make sure that all areas in a city have the rights available to its residents not just offering them in the part of the map we had. for example: Mussafah area.

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)

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

1-Article 6:Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security.
2-Article 3:Right to Recognition as a Person before the Law.
3-Article 12:Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence.
4-Article 22:Right to Social Security. 

2. A human rights tree needs roots to grow and flourish. Give the tree roots and label them with the things that make human rights flourish. For example, a healthy economy, the rule of law, or universal education.        

1- Awareness of people of the importance of these rights.                                                 2-A society that is occupied with facilities to fulfill those rights                                           3-Strict laws that apply severe punishments to people that don't abide by rules that help in the application of the rights.

3.When step 1-2 are completed, present and explain your tree to the rest of the class.