Charity and Volunteering in the UAE 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.

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.      Rebuilding mousqes

b.     Rebuilding houses

c.      shelter

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

a.      Philippines

b.     Pakistan

c.      Sudan

d.     sri lanka

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

180 million dirhams

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

• Houses 
• health 
• education

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	Caused by natural
	Crises	Caused by man made decisions
	Rehabilitation	Help
	Infrastructure	Base
	Devastation	Damage
	Public utilities	Service

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

a.      Earth quakes

b.     Storms

c.      Lack of rain

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

project plan

Volunteer Project
1. Title of plan
• The Fire & Emergency Middle East (FEM)
o Providing Help and assistance within the events, organizing and

guiding people toward their destinations.
2. Names of group participants

Abdulla Khalifa AlRomaithi
Mohamed Matar Alnaqbi
Salem Ahmed Alaydaroos
Khalid Alhammadi
Adnan Quwaider Baflah
Saeed Alhashime

3. Contact person
   
4. Somaya Alkathiri
   
5. G.absher.uae@gmail.com
   

6. Purpose
The purpose of this event is to provide Help and guidance to the visitors throughout the event. Moreover ensuring their safety and wellbeing. On the other hand the entire exhibition is made to aware people and corporates about the new technologies that provide a better solution in firefighting and emergency response within cars, companies, individual households and so on so forth. Moreover one of the main purposes of the event as stated by Major General Rashid AlMatroushi is to “FEM is an important opportunity for industry experts in this sector, explaining that this event brings together an elite of the largest manufacturers of commercial and non-commercial products for the emergency sector enhancing cooperation, communication, sharing ideas and executing initiatives.”
7. Time schedule

• 24/03/2014 introduction meeting
  
• 29/03/2014 to 31/03/2014 training for event
  
• 01/04/2014 to 03/04/2014 The Event
  
• Event Timing is from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM

8. To be successful what needs to be done
   Some of the thing that are needed to be done within the event period are following the trainer exact instructions without making an extra move unless asking for referrals by the instructor. Guiding people to what they are looking for throughout the event. And provide assistance in the global competition in safety that will occur in the event. There will be additional information after the training period.
   
9. What are the benefits to participants?
   The benefits of this event are going to be lifelong skills. Such as safety skills to ensure the audience and the participants learn about different types of fire extinguishers. Moreover to learn about CPR and emergency first response skills needed in times of crisis.
   

10. Who are the target audience?
Visitors to the event from different backgrounds such as safety inspectors, citizens trying to have a safer lifestyle, employees that are in charge of safety and students whom are curious about the modern safety technology and equipment’s types and usage methods.

11. What problems might came across and how would we try to get around them?

Since there are more than 40 countries participating, Communication could be a problem or a barrier that face the volunteers, Since English is not their first language and they are still learning to prefect it. However we can overcome it by technology such as online translating. Fitness might be an obstacle to those whom are overweight because emergencies need a fast response however there are the Segway two-wheeled scooter or any other cart that would help reaching the area of incident faster and in an effortless way. 

UNICEF & Takatof exercis #6

UNICEF Activity 1: Exercise #6

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 honour outstanding achievements. (Writing stories about children , Award jury and deadline)

2-UNCIEF and dubai cores support quality education to break the cycle of poverty .( educating 1 million children)

3- Police boost AIDS campaign  in Dubai (awareness against AIDS).

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 survival and development	Help them by send same society and have workshop to aware them about nutrition , health.
Basic education and gender quality	Send for them cloths , bag , books , teacher (basic needs)
HIV/AIDS and Children	coop rate with red-chrecsent by send medicine and doctors training nurses  .
Children protection	protect them from weather , disease , by build house . shelter , toilet.

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?

A program for social volunteering and helping people who suffered from natural disasters mostly.

  

Which year did start? And who started it?

They start At 2007 , by Sheikh Mohammed bin zayed.

What volunteer work have they done?

helped people in Pakistan after floods by supplying food and rebuilding their houses.

How can you help?

join their volunteering programs and help in organizing their evens or helping people who suffered from natural disasters or you can join Ramadan project which is supplying food for people who can’t afford it.