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.

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

1- Arab Media Award on Child Rights initiated to honor outstanding achievements.

2- UNICEF and Dubai Cares support quality education to break the cycle of poverty. 

3- They talked with youth participation about many topics that considered important for the society and the most important one in my consider  is about the AIDS, Its to spread the awareness  in the society

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #4

 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 & 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 assistance

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

-They are enjoying helping others and they have a really good time,  and at the same time they get helped too,  so they are happy with the benefits

Exercise #3

1.              How old were the Games volunteers? All Ages.

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

            Game 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?        Half work or they have a job but not all the 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? 

            Fantastic and she had a great time doing it.

7.              What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.    Fun

b.    Meeting new people.

c.     Satisfied 

d.     Confidence

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

a. Helping the society is important.

b. Helping the organisation that depends on the volunteers 

Human rights UDHR - and Maslow

Human Rights Activity 1:

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

 

1. Article#3 personal security relates to Maslow's need for personal safety 2.Article#5 relates to Maslow's need for personal safety

3. Article#16 the right to Marriage and family related to Maslow's need of love and belonging

4. Article#26 the right to Education relates to Maslow's need of self Esteem

Questions for CSL Organization Research

The Main goal(s) / purpose of the organization?     

- The main goal of this organization is to create or to make a beautiful country with a clean place to live in and with people who wants to help and give help to the poor and everyone who need it, and to make the youth of this country able to help and volunteer, and to make them understand what is the purpose of helping the other and helping your country by volunteering to clean or to help, or to rebuild a place for the poor people.

        

2.   History? When started by whom?

- The Dubai volunteering cent is quit new place, it started at the fifth of December 2012, and this center belong to community development Authority, and this center is the first volunteering center in Dubai.                    

3.   Organization – Where is the headquarters? Who is CEO?        

- As I said before this center belong to community development Authority, and the CEO is a guy named Khaled Al Kamda, and this center is a public center.

4.   Areas/ countries active?

-       The Dubai volunteering center is a new place so untill now the activity still in the local field, but I think in the soon future they will help the other countries. Their activates are to clean the places and to organize festivals for example.

                                                       

5.   Target recipients?

- The activity of this Center is in the local field so, they try to make the UAE a better place to live in by helping the poor people, organize some big occasions, train the volunteers, so they target the whole society for this.                                   

6.   Benefits/ resources provided?  Short term vs. long term?

- They  provide many things to the society like I said before this just the begging of this center so in the short term they just volunteer in the UAE but in the long term they will reach the world and they’ll spread their help all around the world.   

7.   General profile of a volunteer – Who would/should get involved?

- The center have no problem, anyone can volunteer here even the young children, but in my opinion every citizen in the country should volunteer just to pay back a little for this country, and there’s a very easy way to volunteer in this center and its by registering in on by the internet, and in this website you can put everything about you and what you want to do;http://www.cda.gov.ae/ar/Pages/Volunteer/Register.aspx