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.

http://rcuae.ae/

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.