Self Reflection

For this course we had a volunteering to do so we spend time during the classes we take on volunteering to special needs. I define volunteering as spending time with helping people without any charges during the free times.

We set up in groups which my group is containing four students, and we volunteered in  organization which is part of Zayed Higher Organization called Abu Dhabi Club for special needs.  This Club is for disables who are players of all kind of sports to play it in the Olympics or matches. They inter the competition to wen, and they have lots of the gold medallions.

What I learned through this experience is that I never gave up on trying and doing things again and again, and I never regret on doing something even if it's wrong because I learn from my mistakes. The disables people taught me a lot during my volunteering with them. They taught me that I need to set up my goals for the future, and be ready and prepare all the time. I enjoyed volunteering with these people, and I'm happy that I took this experience and met them.

When I'm with them I feel comfortable and nothing is more important than just focusing on the reason of why I'm there. This experience is like a wonderful thing that I have it through my life, which I learned a lot about it and how does it mean to the people who needs help and we're there for them, they make you feel like a hero, I loved them a lot and I wish I keep going on this direction to learn more and to feel satisfied about my life.

The Last Day Of Volunteering ( 19th May 2014 )

Today, 19th May 2014 (5:00pm-7:00pm), was the last day of volunteering. In this day, we prepared the girls disable team for the basketball for the match that will be set up on 30th of May in Dubai. We played in team four on four to watch their playing and correct their mistakes for the match, and we took almost 2 hours in teaching them and training them. Before we go, we said goodbye and hugged each of them which it broke my heart because its the last day with them, of course we will not forget them, and they are part o our family now.

The Seventh Day Of Volunteering ( 18th May 2014 )

Today, 18th May 2014 (5:00pm-7:00pm), was the seventh day of volunteering. For this day, we watched the boys playing football, and training themselves on how to make goals. It was a normal day, just training, playing and teaching them for the next match or game.  
 

 

The Sixth Day Of Volunteering ( 5th May 2014 )
 

Today, 5th May 2014  (5:00pm-7:00pm), was the sixth day of volunteering.  In this day, the sir came to our volunteering campus to evaluate us. He played with the guys, and the manger of the volunteer gave him the uniform of the club to wear it . After that the manager awarded the sir and we took some photos with the whole disables team, and with our volunteering team only. It was such an amazing day for us to be so grateful to our manager, teacher and our friends the disables.

the sir playing

Here is a video shows the sir playing with the disables.

 

The Fifth Day Of Volunteering ( first of May 2014 )

Today, Wednesday 1st May 2014 (5:00pm-7:00pm), was the fifth day of volunteering. This day was a normal day, but instead of playing inside we played outside, and it was so hot in that day. Some of the girls were not there because they had a game to play, and only two girls were there. 
   

The fourth Day Of Volunteering ( 28th April 2014 )

Today, Monday 28th April 2014 (5:00pm-7:00pm), was the forth day of volunteering. In this day, a new member joined us to the volunteer in the same place that we are in, and he's name is Saeed. For this day we didn't do any new things, just the usual things playing with the girls basketball, and the boys played football with the guys.  



Saeed (New Member)

 

The Third Day Of Volunteering ( 21st April 2014 )

Today, Monday 21^st April 2014 (5:00pm-7:00pm), was the third day of volunteering. In this day we received our outfits for Abu Dhabi Club for special needs, and from there we went to the Armed Forces Officers club to begin our training there.  When we arrived, we started to train and play basketball with the girls, and abdulrahman played football with the disability guys.   

 

catching the basketball
 

   We enjoyed playing with them, and we had fun during this day.

Me wearing the Outfit

The Second Day Of Volunteering ( 16th April 2014 )

Today, Wednesday 16^th April 2014 (5:00pm-7:00pm), was the second day of the volunteering in Abu Dhabi club for special needs. In this day, we met in the Armed Forces Officers Club, the best runner that won a gold medallion and honored by many presidents in a places that she participated in. I made a video when she was running and scoring the best time.

The funny part was, that I noticed Abdulrahman was wearing a different shoes, which made me laugh so much.

After that, we went to the bowling in Zayed sports city, which we met the bowling disability players, and we had fun playing with them and watch them how they play and records a wonderful scores. |plus they thought us how to hold the ball and how to through it to make all of them fall.

That was the end of the day it was such an amazing day of fun and laugh, and were grateful to have this opportunity and living it.

Project plan

“Abu Dhabi Club For Special Needs”

 

Group members:

Haleema Alhosani

Amani Alshaami

Abdulrahman Khalid 

 

Organization information:

       Abu Dhabi Club For Special Needs

*Contact person

       Faleh Alfaisal

     Manager – Abu Dhabi club for special needs

     Tel: 026985899 – Mob: 0504673666

 

Time/ schedule:

Our group will volunteer 4 weeks in the club (Monday&Wednesday)

Starting 15^th April 2014 – 4 hours per week divided into two days a week.

 

Target Audience:

Mental disability – multiple disabilities – physical disability and

Speech disorder members. Different ages and UAE nationalities only.

 

Activities:

Sport trainings

-       Boling

-       Football

-       Basketball

-       Running (Jogging)

Aims of project:

For this project we will have the ability and the knowledge of dealing with disable people and helping them to achieve their goals.

 Also we will have an experience of dealing with the special needs people.

Planning and preparing is the most important purpose of this project.

We will improve the plan of the club in the future.

 

Benefits:

We are dealing with disable people and they have special needs and we should know how to deal with them, so we had prepared before meeting them by searching in websites and reading about it.

They are sensitive people and our actions sometimes reflect on them so we have to be attention to our actions.

Some skills we had learned understanding and give them the patient and support them, and listen to let them feel comfortable and gain confidence to encourage them to success and get their needs and be accepted in society.

 

Challenges:

Of course it might be some challenges there to pass and one of them is the comfortableness of the members (disabilities) with us, and that's considered as a big challenge and hopefully we can get through it and success with our project.   

The First Day Of Volunteering ( 15th April 2014)

Today, Tuesday 15^th April 2014 (5:00pm- 7:00pm), was the first of the volunteering in Abu Dhabi club for special needs. When I entered the club we went straight to the manager of the club, he was so kind with dealing with us, and we had a short meeting which he mentioned the history of the club and when did it open, plus he talked about his jobs before and how many years did he manage this club (3 years). The manager Faisal was so emotional and effective in his words to those disables, and every word was telling us that he consider them as his own children from he's flesh and blood which we moved by him and gave us a motive to love and respect those kind of people. He also mentioned some other clubs that these children are training in, and what kind of Olympics they played, the medallions they got and how can we train them. The manager gave as a tour around the club to know the right place of every work.

After that he took us to the Armed Forces Officers Club (one of the club he mentioned). We met some of the trainers and there were some of the disable boys playing football and other girls were training on basketball. We stood watching them how they train and how good they are on it. In the end of the first day of the volunteering and before we go back home we discussed  and decided on which day we will volunteer, how many hours and all of that will be updated in the volunteer plan.  



 

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

a.        Mosques

b.        digging wells

c.        residential cities

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

a.       Yemen 

b.        Palestine

c.        Lebanon

d.       Sudan 

 

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

180 million.

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

 

Projects in 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	Rebuilding
	disasters	Destruction that made by nature
	crises	Disasters that happened by something
	rehabilitation	Return something or someone
	infrastructure	Basic structure
	devastation	Ravage or destroy
	public utilities	Organization which provides a basic service to the public, such as water and energy.

 

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

a.       Earthquake

b.       Flooding   

c.        Storms

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

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

a.        First aids

b.        Voluntary works methods.

c.        International humanitarian law.