I asked him a few questions about the workshop.
Click on the link to watch the interview with Thomas.
Sunday, 25 October 2015
Week#3: The third day of volunteering
Subject: third Day of volunteering project
Date: Sunday 25th October 2015
Time: 8:00am – 1:00pm
Location: Zayed Higher Organization
I arrived the center (Zayed higher
organization) at 8:00AM. We divided in new two groups. My colleague Saleh and I
went to the Electronics workshop with Mr. Thomas.
First, I started working with Khaled in assembling pieces
robot, Such as adding arm or wheels or Sensors. Khaled very intelligent young
man, he can use the computer and programming. He is seating because the
weakness in his legs.
The other students in the workshop was working in produce
a simple printed circuit board by putting LED lights and made internet cables.
Then, all students stopped there their
work and moved to basketball court with captain Husham. He taught them how to
throw the ball. My friend Khaled was the best thrower, due to his strong arms.
In that moment Mr. Gregory visited us
to see what we did and learned from different workshop. Also he talk with us
about people with disability.
After that, I moved to another workshop which called
Electro Mechanic workshop with Mr. Muntaser.
In this workshop student made
complex electrical circuits. Also, they made electrical connection, electronic
cables, and wires.
After that, Mr. Muntaser leave the
workshop because he has meeting, so Mr. Thomas integrated two classes in one
lab to work together.
I worked with Khaled again, but I found that he finished
build the robot’s arm already.
So he started programming it from the laptop. It
was hard for me to understand programming, so I could not help him that much.
- Khaled made a mistake in the robot's steps, so he
corrected the steps.
- He did it.
After that, we went to the library were
all student learning the colors, alphabetic, and numbers in Arabic and English.
A few students know to read and write, the most of them the do not, that really
surprised me.
Finally, students returned back to the lab and I leaved
the center at 1:00 PM.
Sunday, 18 October 2015
Week#2: The second day of volunteering
Subject: Second Day of volunteering
project
Date: Sunday 18th October
2015
Time: 8:00am – 2:00pm
Location: Zayed Higher Organization
On the second day of volunteering on Sunday 18th
of October 2015, I arrived Zayed organization for Humanitarian care and special
needs at 8:00 AM with partner Mubarak.
- First, we went to metal workshop to
complete our work which is making seating for the canteen.
Then, as a group we worked to together with
supervisor Helal to smooth metal (seating parts).
- After that, the supervisor Hela and I started welding seating’s parts
which took a lot of times.
- By the end of this day, we made four structure
of canteen seating.
Finally, by the end of this reflection I want to
introduce one person works in the metal workshop his name is Abdullah Al Suwaidi his age about fourteen
years.
He suffered from Down syndrome. I am exciting when I met and worked with
Abdullah Al Suwaidi because
he is friendly, like to meet new people, and he is disciplined in his work.
- Abdullah helps his friend
Abdullah Al-Hajri with Closing buttons Coat, also he helped
me to take a lot of photos in the workshop.
Sunday, 11 October 2015
Week#1: The first day of volunteering
Subject: First Day of
volunteering project
Date: Sunday 11th
October 2015
Time: 8:00am – 2:00pm
Location: Zayed Higher
Organization
In the first
day of volunteerism in Zayed Higher Organization, I came at 7:47 AM and I
waited until all group members arrive.
At 9:00 AM when khalisa arrived we met two female supervisors to give
us tours for four workshops.
1- The first workshop is
print. In this workshop workers made boxes, business cards, files, and gifts
wrapping:
2-
The second workshop is metalwork. Workers in this workshop created
chairs and tables:
3-
The third workshop is electricity workshop. In this workshop
workers produced electrical tools:
4-
The last workshop in Zayed Higher Organization is carpentry
workshop. In this workshop workers made geometric forms and furniture:
After we went through all four workshops two female supervisors divided us
in two groups Mubarak and me in metalwork workshop. The second group Saleh and
Abdallah in carpentry workshop. Also, the supervisor told us that we will go
each week one workshop to get more experience about all fields.
Mubarak and I went to
metalwork workshop with Mr. Helal who told us some rules of workshop like
wearing uniforms while we are working in the workshop to be more flexible while
we are work.
Also, he put us as supervisors in the workshop to observe students while
they are working and help Mr. Helal while he works.
Mr. Helal taught us how to take measurement of object and made new chairs
and tables for canteen.
In this workshop there are some students who have disability that we can
interact with them more comfortable than other students. Whereas, there are
some students have complex disabilities like autism that difficult for me to
interact with them.
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form
Follow this template to organize the primary
details about your volunteer project:
1. Title of plan –
Volunteering for Zayed Higher Organization
2. Names of each participant:
Salem AlJaberi
|
H00307745
|
Abdulla Basem
|
H00269022
|
Mubarak AlJunabi
|
H00282965
|
Saleh AlBreiki
|
H00308217
|
3. Organization (name) and contact person (supervisor +
email):
Zayed Higher
Organization
Fatima AlHamly
|
fatima.alhamly@zho.ae
|
+971 2 6980114
|
Khalesa AlQuwaitaei
|
khalisa.alqowateeri@zho.ae
|
+971 2 6980105
|
4. Purpose / what can you do to support the Goals of the
Organization?
Ex: this project will help the students of Al Hosan School to
develop their IT skills
We can help the organization to reach its goals, to win the trust
of every man woman and child. We will work with disabled people with our age
group and makes it a bit easer to communicate because communication in a place
like ZHO is very important so we will provide care and therapeutic services to
the participant in need.
5. Time/ schedule: students will volunteer for how many hours /
week? Which Days?
Weekly – 5 hours a week for 4/5 weeks
·
Every Sunday from 8:00 to 12:00 (3 hours) flexible
·
Every Thursday from 8:00 to 10:00 (2 hours)
6. To be successful what need to be done? Specific activities and efforts?
What are the needs of
the participants? Specific needs both Mental AND Physical
Ex: In the end, students must be able to type 20wpm English
typing. Specificy
To be successful in
this project; you must have the drive to do it willingly; we must attend every
session we have without being late or leaving early. Help and interact with the
participants so he could enjoy him self and learning from this opportunity and
recoding what happens each day.
To satisfy the needs
of the participant; first we must Speak normally and directly to them. Not speaking to someone who is
with them. The participants often have their own ways of doing things. So “Ask
before you help”. We shouldn’t refer to the disability, and never use phrases
like “handicapped”. Being patient and making sure we understand their needs. Don't
touch any assistive devices, including wheelchairs, unnecessarily unless it's
an emergency.
7. What are the specific Benefits for the participants? (Both
volunteers and recipients)
This project will help us as HCT students
to improve our communicating and social skills, how to deal with people with
different problems of all ages and will change our prospective of life so we
can appreciate what we have.
At the end both of us should have made new friends, getting to interact
with people with different backgrounds and learned from each other and from
this opportunity.
8. Any potential problems you see arising?
Every program has small
problems while starting and facing these issues is a must, we may face problems
with communication and trust; what do they want and how can we help them or
satisfy them according to their need, after introducing our self to them a talk
to each other and letting them know that we are here for them. There for it’s a
mater of time to get use to each other.
LSH 2903 – Community Service – Learning / Exercise #9 extra
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.
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 mosques.
b. Homes and schools.
c. Drilling
for water wells.
2.
Name at least 4 countries the UAERC has worked in to
provide various project assistance
a. Egypt / Yemen
b. Sudan / Ghana
c. Lebanon / Syria
d. India / Pakistan
e. Niger / Uganda
3.
What was the estimated total cost of projects
undertaken in the UAE during 2009?
- The cost of the development and
reconstruction projects carried out by the Authority until 2009 is 155 million
and 954 thousand and 600 dirhams, the cost of about 20 projects in several
countries.
4.
According to the information about the foreign based
projects, which group of projects received funding of 8,373,558 Dirhams?
-
The areas of housing, health and
education.
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
|
Rebuild
|
|
disasters
|
Big
problem
|
|
crises
|
Big
problem that might not be solved
|
|
rehabilitation
|
Rebuild
and start again to grow strong again
|
|
infrastructure
|
Schools,
mosques, houses, government buildings
|
|
devastation
|
Unbelievable
and shocked
|
|
public
utilities
|
Public
parks
|
6.
Name three situations which are listed as (natural disasters).
a. Floods
b. Earthquakes
c. Volcanoes
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.
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