First day - City Guard event

 Community Service Volunteering Project

First day : 24-4-2014
Event : City Guard Application
Time : 2 - 6 p.m
Location : Abu Dhabi - Marina Mall (Takatuf corner)

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Today I would like to write about my first day on volunteering with takatuf orgnization, which gives us  meaningful opportunities to volunteer for humanitarian, social and community. Our event was about City Guard application, which is a new application launched by UAE government in 2013 and its available on smartphones stores for free. The whole idea is : making Abu Dhabi a better city by encouraging the residents to report non-emergency incidents.

At first we distribute a huge number of brochures that describe the app in easy way, to give most of people a good idea about this application. We was there, giving the visitors many information about this app, talking with deferent ages, some of them ignore us and most of them liked the idea and said : WOW its a great idea from Abu Dhabi government.

I was so excited to explain the porpuse of this application to the visitors, Also I tought them how to use it and how to submit thier cases through it and that what takatuf supervisors tought us in the first meeting . Many of them downloaded it there and used it immediately.

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Here is our corner ( Mohammad to the right & Adnan ) are discovering the area

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 Mohammad distributes some brochures for the visitors 

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I was explaining the concepts of City Guard app to the visitors

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TAKATOF ORGANAIZATION

1.       Title of plan

·       City Guard

·       Malaria Exhibition

 Providing Help and assistance within the events, organizing and

Aware people to the situation.

2. Names of group participants

·       Mohamed Matar Alnaqbi

·       Salem Ahmed Alaydaroos

·       Khalid Alhammadi

·       Adnan Quwaider Baflah

3. Contact person

·       Husain Al Hadi       

·       050/6229307

4. Purpose

The purpose of these events is to provide Help and awareness to the visitors throughout the event. Moreover ensuring their safety and well being. On the other hand the entire exhibition is made to aware people and corporate about the new technologies that provide a better solution to encourage residents, to report non-emergency incidents through their smart phones. Moreover one of the main purposes of the second event is to combat malaria – an ancient enemy and a modern scourge much has been achieved, but much has been remains to be done, together with our friends in the roll back malaria partnership we look forward to the day when this debilitating and destructive disease is eliminated from our planet.

5. Time schedule

·       23/04/2014 introduction meeting

·       24/04/2014  city guard event 2:00 PM to 6 PM

·       17/05/2014 to 18/05/2014 The Event (Malaria Exhibition)

·       Event Timing is from 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM

6. To be successful what needs to be done

Some of the thing that are needed to be done within the event period are following the trainer exact instructions without making an extra move unless asking for referrals by the instructor. Giving  people some information about what they are looking for throughout the event. And provide assistance in organizing the events and sharing with them the information.

7. What are the benefits to participants?

The benefits of these events are going to be lifelong skills. Such as safety skills to ensure the audience and the participants be more awarded and effective in their society. Moreover to learn about the government’s efforts to combat the deadly disease Malaria.

8. Who are the target audience?

Visitors to the event from different backgrounds such as safety inspectors, All people how live in UAE trying to have a safer lifestyle, employees that are in charge of safety and students whom are curious about the modern safety technology and equipment’s types and usage methods.

9. What problems might came across and how would we try to get around them?

Communication could be a problem or a barrier that face the volunteers, Since English is not their first language and they are still learning to prefect it. However we can overcome it by technology such as online translating. The volunteers must be patient as much as they can because there are few people who are ignoring them since they want to help them.

Exercise #7

LSH 2903 – Community Service – Learning /  Exercise #7

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.

When I travel to other countries and talk to people about my job, the students and the UAE in general, one constant thought I hear repeated is that the UAE is a very hospitable country and its people are very generous. People in the UAE often want to do things to help others, whether it is other UAE Nationals or people from other countries.

Within the UAE we see so many examples of people volunteering and giving to charities to try and help others. People do this out of the simple goodness of their hearts and to try to help other people to have a better life than they have at the moment. An obvious example is TAKATOF which promotes the idea of volunteering within the country.

Just last semester (March 2013) we had a major charity fundraising week when students, staff and teachers of ADMC raised 25,000 Dh to donate to a school in a poor village Cambodia.

The UAE is also very strongly represented in the international field of assisting people from other countries. It may be through the Red Crescent that people donate money, time or skills to try and help others. So much of the time when we hear about various international problems, the UAE is one of the first to step forward and provide assistance.

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.      Constructionprojects - shelters and houses.
• b.      Building  mosques.
• c.       Education projects

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

• a.      Philippines.
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• b.      Lebanon.
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• c.       Palestine.
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• d.      Afghanistan.

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

-          180 million dirhams

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

• ·       Infrastructure
• ·       education
• ·       health projects.

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
	disasters	Caused by nature
	crises	Caused by man made decisions
	rehabilitation	Repair and recover
	infrastructure	Foundation, base
	devastation	Damage
	public utilities	Public services

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

• a.      Lack of rain.
• b.      Earthquakes.
• c.       Storms.

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

What are the three areas of training/qualification that university students could work towards?

• a.      First Aid.
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• b.      Volunteer work methods.
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• c.       The international humanitarian law.