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

Exercise 3

Human Rights Activity 1:

Working in pairs, discuss and write how these rights relate to the different levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

physiological:Article 12-Article 28-Article 4

safety:Article 23-Article 3- Article 14

love-belonging : Article 10- Article 16-Article 20

esteem:Article 2-Article 18-Article 29

Self actualization : Article 27-Article 30 

Exercise 2

Human Needs Activity 2: Exercise #2

Working in groups, discuss and answer the following questions:

1. Does every human being have the right to reach the top of the Maslow pyramid?

everybody can reach the high level because the people are equal because every one have the right of equality.

2. Does every human being have the capability of reaching that level?

No, because there are people who are poor so they didn't fill the basic need and also there are people who are rich who aren't confident .

3. What are the opportunities are needed to get to the higher level?

 for poor people they need , employment,health and filling the first three level
for rich people they need encouragement , support ,confidence.

4. What are the obstacles could stand in the way of reaching these levels?

lack of confidence ,lack of supporting ,not filling the basic needs.

5.     What could you do to help others to reach the higher levels?

Help people to solve their problems and volunteering to help people by filling their basic needs .