Final Community Services Self-Reflection

As we started this course I thought it will be a tough course , it was the first time for me to learn about community service . Eventually it wasn’t that tough we had a lot of things to learn about some stuff I didn’t knew

1: Organization

          I was volunteering at the future center that is located at Mussafah  .

The future center is for special needs kids that need help in learning basically in Arabic language and English and Mathematics , they are aged between 8 years to 20 years , and the accept volunteering from different colleges from the UAE to help in different types  in learning , they even teach them how to use type in computers , how to play music , how to clean and even how to cook  .

2: Best part

The best part about the volunteering is that it gives you the opportunity to help others and know more about different types of people , for me I learned more things about special needs people things I didn’t know and the bad thought about them , I learned that its not difficult to help them in studies.

           

3: support the community

We helped our community by helping the kids in studies in the center and we were asked to tell the kids in the national day what does the national day mean to us as locals to show them that the studies is not that difficult at all, at the end you actually fell that you had achieved something for your community and you well be proud about your self .

4: All I Leaned

As the last day for me in volunteering I had learned a lot of things , I gained experience in volunteering, I know how to treat people with special need we have to treat them as normal people , at first it was so hard cuse it was the first time to work with special need kids but know I hope that we can do it all over again .وem in studies astudies and ino cook, i  about diffrent  the volunteering from diffrent

The Video - Future Center

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-vDb0LrBE&feature=youtu.be

The Future center interview

I had an interview one of the teacher as I was asked to and I asked her some Questions


1 - For how many years you have been working with special needs kids ?

Ans - She answered that she have been working with special needs kids for 25 years , she worked in Palestine for 13 years and at he she started workin at the future center since 3rd of January 2003

2 - Is working with special needs kids a hard job ? What are the hardest cases?

Ans - She said at first when she was a fresh graduated  student she had a hard time but by the time goes on she got to it and she said the hardest cases are girls with Down syndrome and hyper active students  

3 - Why did you choose working with special needs kids ?

Ans - Because she lovels helping people plus she has a master degree in sociology so she understand the feelings of their parents

4 - What are the best feeling you had as an special needs teacher ?

Ans - When she sees the parents are glade their children and when the parents are glade with here and they tell here that they consider here as she is like a mother to the kids and how mush the kids love her

5 - how can we as a college students help them ?

Ans - She says that we have to accept them in all their needs We should treet them as a normal human we shouldn't let them feel like the are outcast person we should help them in all difrent ways.

Day #3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 Future center

Day #3


Today we started the day with some mathematics we made the count from 1 till the number 20 and all of the students their where great in it . And then we showed them how to help their Mothers to clean their houses .


Day # 4
 in this day we went to a horse riding events all the student had experienced horse riding a lot and then we went back to the center and we had asked every one to tell us about what they felt and that if they want to repeat that again .


Day # 5

in this day we had a birthday party for one of the kids (sultan's birthday party ) .
His mother did for him a surprise party and he enjoyed because it was the first birthday party with his friends.


Day # 6

Today we had Arabic and math classes and then we took them to do some sports and playing some football before the end of the day

Day # 7

Today we had the morning cycle that includes morning exercise and we choosed a randomly selected boy to right the date after that we made them to read some holy Quran after that they had their breakfast

Day # 8

Today we took them to Sheikh Zayed's sports city to teach them how to play bowling and some kids wanted to learn how to play table tennis

Day # 9

Today class we ha a science class and we teached  them different types of animals such as fishes , birds and wild animals and how to treat animals in different ways

Day # 10 (Last day )

After the break fast we took them to do some excersice and then we took them to an art class and they started drawind and coloring flowers and trees

Day #1 & 2 Future Center

Day #1

Future center , the moment we arrived

 

 

As we enter the building  every one must sign in his name and the time he entered to the building and should sign .
Mrs. Anjum was waiting for our arrival at the reception  so she can show as where we will be volunteering so she showed every one the class he was helping .
For me , I was helping kids with Mr. Mohamed and Mrs. Nadia in teaching children how to right Arabic words then we went to Mr. tareq class to show them how people wear their clothes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day #2

 

as soon as we had entered our second day for me it was sports day for the kids I helped the teachers to make the children run over the playground and then we took them to the centers gym and did some morning exercise 

 

 

After that we took them back to the class rooms and we gave them some new English words to learn .we had a lot of fun in our second day

Activity 3

1- What is Takatof?

 A social volunteering programme in United Arab Emirates that established in 2005.  Takatof vision is to offer a better community by offering people social volunteering projects.  It offers the society creative solutions under the dress of volunteering.

2- Which year did start? And who started it?
established in 2005 in the UAE under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and the Deputy Supreme Commander of UAE Armed Forces. Takatof was launched in Abu Dhabi in April 2007 with an inaugural school renovation event. 
3- What volunteer work have they done?
A- Volunteering in the Health Sector:
Volunteers for this programme perform highly useful health and administrative activities at hospitals and health centres.
B- Takatof for Special Needs:
Participation in this programme provides frequent opportunities for volunteers to utilize their leisure time through voluntary work for people with special needs.
C- Takatof International Volunteering Programme:
This programme offers volunteers an opportunity to develop their skills and experiences outside the country, while taking part in socially responsible activities.
 
4- How can you help?
- I can help by volunteering one time at least with them, to help my society and to get some knowledge.- Spreading the idea of volunteering is also a help for the organization and it will get people to volunteer and help.

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
Protecting our youths from the drugs	- Doing seminars about the dangrous of the drugs and helping with the organization. - Spread the awareness to the families. - Visitng schools and make a group talk with the students
Helping everyone to be educated	- Paying for anyone who can get education. - Donate books. - Open centers to teach the old people.
protecting the society from Chronic diseases	- Periodically check for everyone specially the elders. - spread the awareness about Diabetes because its one of the highest Chronic diseases in the UAE.
Geting the workers their rights	- taking care of the workers in the UAE. - punish anyone who miss with their rights.  - giving them less work in the hot weather or provide them ways to keep them cold and protected.