My self-reflection

Bashir Al Mughairbi

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CIL

My self-reflection

During this Volunteering project I’ve learnt a lot, from experiences and influences for example at the start of the project we had a lot to decide on what to do it took the most time and effort and taught me many things like time crunching, communication skills and trust.

The main one was trust for me and my colleagues we had a lot of trust in each other and because if one person couldn’t complete the individual task any of us will automatically help the other one out which is crucial in keeping the project at the best conditions, another thing this project taught me was damage control/time crunching, we had a lot of opportunities to go and work for big companies like Takatof, Food authority and Red Crescent, but none quite had the same image we wanted we wanted to add our university the most and the environment that was our goal but due to our schedules as students we had to decline many projects due to the fact we wouldn’t be able to make them and the final thing I learnt was improving my communication skills I am naturally an introvert and I have a mediocre case of social anxiety so having to make meetings with the Student conical and certain admin teachers really took a lot of courage and helped me better my self to not be afraid.

The only thing I’d ever do different in this project will to do it again and do better because of all the skills I learnt it can only go up from here I recommend this course to anyone if we had the choice to retake it. 

Week #2 - Discussing project planning

Project week #2 Step #2 Date: 10:30 - 14:30 12/5/2014

Last week we got their proposal, and we sent it to the Student council and its going to take a while to get the confirmation of the director.

So the student council told us today to find good spots for the bins because "Zone waste papers"   agreed to give us 30 bins, and we need to put them in the most reasonable places.

Also, we asked students how far would they go to put papers for recycling ... the results were terrible. they need the bins very close to them. so we went and looked all around the college to get some good results. 

Project week #2 Step #1 11:00 - 13:30 4/5/2014

During this week we will be working together with the student council, firsty , we arranged a project with the student council and offered to do majority of the work due to there exam pressure. So they agreed to the recycling plan. We are going to bring a company that will be in charge of taking the papers that are going to be recycled. we are talking to about 7 companies but only 3 met our requirements that we got from Ibrahim (one of the student council).

Our requirements were:

1- No fees needed or a profit gain.

2- They provide us with recycling bins around the college

3- Weekly or monthly collecting time

4- Fastest time to apply.

Zaytoona Recycling           
Contact:

• Tel: 02 5838328
• Mob: 050 8183369
• Email: zrecycling@yahoo.com

1- 6x6 Metal Cage (outside)

2- weekly

3-free



MAHY Khoory & Co.
Contact:

• Mob: 056 6861792
• Email: prem@upm.ae

1- 6x6 Metal Cage (outside)

2- Fast agreement

3- Free

4- Monthly

5- Need to call 1 day before for the collection

6- Collects: paper, plastic, metal cans


Zone Waste Papers
Contacts:

• Mob: 052 6403566
• Email: zeina@zonewastepapers.com

1-Big boxes spread in the college

2-Free of charge if the load is over 500 kg

3- monthly or weekly

 

 

We have decided on the last one. 

LSH 2903 – Community Service – Learning / Exercise #8

Charity and Volunteering in the UAE - Information and Activities

The UAE is famous for its hospitality and the desire to give one's time and efforts to help other people.

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.        Educational Projects in: Palestine, Yemen, Pakistan

b.        Drilling of over 2254 wells all over the world

c.        Construction of over 858 mosques

2.     Name at least 4 countries the UAERC has worked in to provide various project assistance

a.        Palestine

b.        Yemen

c.        Pakistan

d.        Sudan

3.                   What was the estimated total cost of projects undertaken in the UAE during 2009?

155 million and 954 thousand and 600 dirhams

4.                   According to the information about the foreign based projects, which group of projects received funding of 8,373,558 Dirhams?

Housing, health, education and other infrastructure 

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 of houses and buildings
	disasters	Huge natural destruction
	crises	Major issues within a country
	rehabilitation	Helping people better themselves
	infrastructure	The building blocks of the community/building
	devastation	Major Damage
	public utilities	Public toilets, wells

6.                   Name three situations which are listed as �natural disasters�.

a.        Floods

b.        Torrents

c.        Earthquakes

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

UNICEF + Takatof Activity: Exercise #7

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

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
Nutrition Awareness	Go to schools and hold presentations. Visit malls and handout brochures.
Smoking Awareness	Enlighten children what smoking does to you and how it affects you over time
Drug Awareness	Teach kids in school what drugs do to you and how they affect your life in the short and long term.

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?

Takatof mobilizes people and resources across the nation to find creative and sustainable solutions for proven community needs. Takatof particularly offers young people meaningful opportunities to volunteer for humanitarian, social and community programs.

  

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.

What volunteer work have they done?

·      Formula 1 Project

·      Jacket Distribution Campaign

·      Takatof International volunteer project – Tanzanian

·      Tuscaloosa – Tornado Recovery AID

How can you help?

I will join the Takatof volunteer program and aid in projects in UAE by teaching children in school what nutrition’s are in food and what they can do to better there lives by there diet, and outside UAE for the International volunteers project in Nepal, Tanzanian, USA.