self refiection

SELF REFLECTION 

Today, volunteering has been an issue that sparks considerable debate amongst people because people are ignoring the volunteering and they have no idea about the benefits of this. I would talk about my self-reflection in the volunteering.

To begin with, I had volunteered with Takatof two events the first event was about city guard and i was helping the community by giving them information and explaining something could help Abu Dhabi effectively and make it one of the best cities in the world so I feel that I am one of the contributors. In addition I felt that I am really doing something for my community and I feel I am successful when I help .Also I learned how to deal with people from different nationalities and cultures.

 In second event which called Malaria exhibition I was giving aware about the danger of this disease .What’s more, from this event I learned how to meet the important characters and how to help the people to avoid this disease. In general there are a multitude of experiences that I acquire form volunteering such as learning how to control any problem could I face it. Furthermore, strengthen the connection and the cooperation between me and the society and also I understudied how I should eliminate the leisure definitely by volunteering.

In the future, Volunteering give me self-esteem and make me more confident by myself so that will affect me to be creative person and to be patient to achieve accomplishments in the future. My supervisor was ignoring me when I want to volunteer and he don’t answer me so I had to be initiator to get what I want so that taught me that I must initiate to do something not to wait. 

Third day

Third day :18-5-2014
The event: Malaria;blood, sweat and tears
location : Emirates palace
Time:3-10 p.m



      In our third day volunteering with takatof there was less number of visitors than what was in the opining day .Some schools came to the exhibition such as the Elite private school and other schools.we discussed with our supervisor to work hard for introducing the danger of Malaria disease for the visitors.

Furthermore, there is a person asked me a question that I couldn't answer it so I had to ask the  supervisor because we have to answer him , I thought about searching on the internet but I couldn't because I was nervous.We explain the exhibition for the students to avoid the symptoms of Malaria disease.

I learned a lot of things in this volunteering because I wasn't knowing how the Malaria is dangerous in the developing countries and also I gained experiences such as how to deal with people from different countries and learned what is the value of volunteering on the community service. I would like to volunteer always with takatof because I found it so interesting and teach me a lot of thing.What's more, when we help our community without return that make us successful people and showing that the life does not  depend only  in the money and the return.

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Interview task

Interview task

I  made an interview with the supervisor of city guard event

1-Can you tell about the city guard app?

she said : it is a program works on mobile phones and it is available free for all residents of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi citizens, residents and visitors.

2-How this app will help the community and Abu Dhabi city?

She said : By Activating the participation of the public and increase cooperation with government to promote and develop Abu Dhabi at all levels.

3-Which case that people can report for ?

she said : there is no specific cases , it is include any case that could be bad.

4-How this app would be effective in the future ?

She said : If everybody participate and report any case that could effect negatively in Abu Dhabi I think we can repair this so that leads Abu Dhabi for being one of the best cities in the world.

5- Do you think other cities will make like this app ?

She said : I hope so, because that will lead UAE one of the best countries not just Abu Dhabi , I think if this app achieve success other cities will try to create like this.



6- How you can guarantee that the app will succeed?
She said: I can't, but if we follow the rules correctly and if the community participate and interact there is no opportunity for failure and I guarantee that will be successful.

second day

Second day: 17-05-2014
The event: Malaria :blood,sweat and tears
location: Emirates palace
Time: 3-10 p.m

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             In second day volunteering we went to Emirates palace before starting the event for Malaria exhibition there was a meeting with our supervisor and all the volunteers to introduce our self to be cooperative in the event , there was also an explain about Malaria disease to make sure that we can face any question from any visitors and they taught us how to explain and deliver the information for the visitors correctly.

   Before the official exhibition Let's talk about the main target of the exhibition which is  documenting the significant developments achieved in the areas of command and control of the disease in developing countries, and to show the consequences and devastating consequences for this kind of disease.

 The exhibition has being presents for the first time in the Middle East after its launch in New York.

Sheikha lubna Al Qasimi present the event and open it, also the princess Astrid the daughter of Belgium's King Albert.she said  I commit $ 25 million (AED 92 million) within five years period between 2010 to 2014 in order to support the work of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. Because these important character attended the event there was a crowd of people so we get stress and we had to double our efforts to show how the event is successful .

The picture show Sheikha lubna with Astrid during the opening of the exhibition.

here are some macro shots of Mosquito by photographer Adam

project plan

TAKATOF ORGANAIZATION

1.       Title of plan:

 City Guard

Malaria Exhibition

 Providing Help and assistance within the events, organizing and

Aware people to the situation.

2. Names of group participants

Mohamed Matar Alnaqbi

Salem Ahmed Alaydaroos

Khalid Alhammadi

Adnan Quwaider Baflah

3. Contact person

· Husain Al Hadi       

· 050/6229307

4. Purpose

The purpose of these events is to provide Help and awareness to the visitors throughout the event. Moreover ensuring their safety and well being. On the other hand the entire exhibition is made to aware people and corporate about the new technologies that provide a better solution to encourage residents, to report non-emergency incidents through their smart phones. Moreover one of the main purposes of the second event is to combat malaria – an ancient enemy and a modern scourge much has been achieved, but much has been remains to be done, together with our friends in the roll back malaria partnership we look forward to the day when this debilitating and destructive disease is eliminated from our planet.

5. Time schedule

·         23/04/2014 introduction meeting

·         24/04/2014  city guard event 2:00 PM to 6 PM

·         17/05/2014 to 18/05/2014 The Event (Malaria Exhibition)

·         Event Timing is from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM

6. 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. Giving  people some information about what they are looking for throughout the event. And provide assistance in organizing the events and sharing with them the information.

7. What are the benefits to participants?

The benefits of these events are going to be lifelong skills. Such as safety skills to ensure the audience and the participants be more awarded and effective in their society. Moreover to learn about the government’s efforts to combat the deadly disease Malaria.

8. Who are the target audience?

Visitors to the event from different backgrounds such as safety inspectors, All people how live in UAE 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.

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

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. The volunteers must be patient as much as they can because there are few people who are ignoring them since they want to help them.

First day: City guard event

Community service volunteering project 

First day: 24-04 -2014

Event : City guard

Time : 2:00 p.m to 6:00 p.m

Location : Abu Dhabi  Marina mall.

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Today I would like to talk about my first participation with Takatuf which is one of the greatest  organization in the UAE for volunteering , the event was about city guard which is a new application launched in 2013,it is available in phones ,the purpose of this app is for making Abu Dhabi one of the best city in the world by making an opportunity for the residents and whole community to report any case and issue that happened in  Abu Dhabi.

 The first job that we did, is distributing brochures for  a big number of people to deliver them the idea of this app, I faced something that i didn't like when I was giving the people the brochures which that some people were ignoring me when I want to help them by giving them information about this application but some of them are really wanting to know about that so I was curious and excited to explain everything for them. While we give the visitors the good idea about this app. Also we taught them how to use the app and publish any case  by using any device.

Finally , I feel happy when I see the people understanding the app and how they are excited about it.

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I was explaining for this visitor how to use the app and how to submit a case.

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Here I was giving him the brochure and I was waiting for any question to help him with 

the information.

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TAKATOF ORGANAIZATION

1   Title of plan:

 City Guard

Malaria Exhibition

 Providing Help and assistance within the events, organizing and

Aware people to the situation.

2. Names of group participants

Mohamed Matar Alnaqbi

Salem Ahmed Alaydaroos

Khalid Alhammadi

Adnan Quwaider Baflah

3. Contact person

· Husain Al Hadi       

· 050/6229307

4. Purpose

The purpose of these events is to provide Help and awareness to the visitors throughout the event. Moreover ensuring their safety and well being. On the other hand the entire exhibition is made to aware people and corporate about the new technologies that provide a better solution to encourage residents, to report non-emergency incidents through their smart phones. Moreover one of the main purposes of the second event is to combat malaria – an ancient enemy and a modern scourge much has been achieved, but much has been remains to be done, together with our friends in the roll back malaria partnership we look forward to the day when this debilitating and destructive disease is eliminated from our planet.

5. Time schedule

·         23/04/2014 introduction meeting

·         24/04/2014  city guard event 2:00 PM to 6 PM

·         17/05/2014 to 18/05/2014 The Event (Malaria Exhibition)

·         Event Timing is from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM

6. 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. Giving  people some information about what they are looking for throughout the event. And provide assistance in organizing the events and sharing with them the information.

7. What are the benefits to participants?

The benefits of these events are going to be lifelong skills. Such as safety skills to ensure the audience and the participants be more awarded and effective in their society. Moreover to learn about the government’s efforts to combat the deadly disease Malaria.

8. Who are the target audience?

Visitors to the event from different backgrounds such as safety inspectors, All people how live in UAE 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.

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

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. The volunteers must be patient as much as they can because there are few people who are ignoring them since they want to help them.

Exercise 7

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.        Building houses

b.        Building mosques

c.     Building  schools

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

a.        Pakistan

b.        Maldives

c.        Syria

d.        Yemen

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

 180,000,000 DHR

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

                    

                       external project

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	nature disasters
	crises	disaster by human
	rehabilitation	recovery ,
	infrastructure	foundation , structure
	devastation	destruction
	public utilities	services public

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

a.        Earthquake

b.        storms

c.        floods 

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

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

Child survival and development

Education

Emergency aid and humanitarian action

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
awareness campaign	putting advertising in the streets
helping poor people	assign amount of money every month and give it to the organizations.

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 program for social volunteering is a nationwide volunteering initiative in the United Arab Emirates, and one of the principal initiatives of the Emirates foundation.

Which year did start? And who started it?

 it started in 2005 by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?

Takatof project Ramadan 

How can you help?

I could help by volunteering any where it does not matter in the UAE or abroad it just depend by which way can I give my effort , i can also work with them and do some work such as building house .

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Exercise 5

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

1.                  How old were the Games volunteers? All ages

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

                                   Games 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? 

            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? 

              best experiences in her 

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.  confidence

b.      fun

c.       meet new people

d.   satisfaction

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

because that support people and help 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	Admin and 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 Assistant

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

It means ,it does not depend in the ages also if you don't have skills you can help so everybody want to help his community