Future Center project / Plan

“Future Center volunteering project”"Future Center project" / Plan

Group members:

Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Shaibani

Abdul Hakeem Al Jaberi

Ahmed Saeed Al Naqbi

Ali Abdulrahman Al Kalbani

Humaid Khamis Al Shamsi

Organization information:

Future Center for special needs

o   Contact person: Ms. Anjum Jaffer (Head of Education)

§  Tel: +971 2 5533506

§  Email: anjum1@futurecn.ae

Time / Schedule:

Our group will volunteer for 5 weeks in the center starting from 14^th April, 3 hours per week divided into two days.  The schedule will help us to end up with 15 hours of volunteering, but we may add more hours after week 1.

Target audience:

Mental disability, Autism spectrum disorder, multiple disability, Down syndrome, physical disability and speech disorder students.  Students are from different ages and nationalities.

Activities our project will involve:

Sport classes.

IT skills classes.

Art classes.

Outside trips (if it possible).

Afternoon activities (football or basketball).

Aims of the project:

This project has many purposes and outcomes for both of volunteers and target audience.  Us volunteers, we are going to gain experience and background about education volunteering work.

 We will learn more about disabilities and how to treat people with disabilities and disorders, especially that we will learn by doing and dealing with them.

This project is a part of this course, by doing it on the best way we will pass this course with the best outcomes.

Planning and preparing is one of the most important purposes of this project, we will improve our planning skills.

Try to help the target audience and people in the future center as much as we can during our volunteering time.

Come up with new ideas to improve the center services and help the managers with some future possible plans.

                                                     

Benefits of project on target audience:

The philosophy of the center says “Individuals with disabilities have the right to appropriate education and intervention.  They are to be accorded every opportunity for growth and development”.  We are dealing with disability people and they have special needs and we should know what they need from us, we have to make sure from everything before we meet them.  Students there are so sensitive and some actions that we see regular may have a negative reflect on them.  For this purpose, the best way to get ready is to think about their needs and put them in levels:

a)      Level one needs

Understanding: Students will feel more comfortable if they find someone who understands them, and by this way the education process will be easy on both of us.

Time – Patient: We should be patient and give the students time, and we always have to remember that we are dealing with disability students.

Support: The purpose of the project is to help these students, and they need moral support more than any other kind of supports.

b)      Level two needs:

Sympathy: To support disability students and help them to improve their skills to involve in the society we have to show them kindness and love.

Listen-notice: If they feel comfortable they will try to say their thoughts and ideas and we should listen.  Sometimes actions say more than words, so noticing is not less importance than listening.

c)      Level three needs:

Opportunity: Disability students need an opportunity to show people around them how good they are and they are not on the same situation anymore, we have to give them opportunities.

Motivation: they may not success from the first opportunity; they need motivation to try again and again and keep improving and learning.

b) Level four needs:

Confidence: Students will gain confidence and believing in themselves by time and after getting their needs from the past levels.

Acceptance: After getting their previous needs, students will have to get the acceptance from the society and people to live naturally.

           

            Challenges:

We are going to face many challenges and we are going to pass them.  Some of these challenges are:

-       The acceptance of the students.

-       We are not allowed to take photos or videos without permission, and by this way our blog reports are going to be weak.

-       The center strict rules (for instance, no phones are allowed during the volunteering hours .. etc)

These challenges will be passed easily and we are going to achieve our target and we will end up with a great experience and project at the end of the course.

Exercise #4

Human Rights Activity

1.     Present the map to the whole class.

·         Did any parts of your map have a high concentration of rights? How do you explain this?

-          The center of Abu dhabi is highly concentrated with most of the things, it provides the rights to all nationalities and religions with no expectations.

·         Did any parts have few or no rights associations? How do you explain this?

-          The whole map was filled with rights, I couldn't find a place with few/no rights.

·         Are there any articles of the UDHR that seem to be especially exercised in this community? How can this be explained?

-          There are many mosques, healthcare centers and police stations, courts and much more rights. It is the middle of the Capital Abu dhabi, so many people live and work there.

·        Are there any articles of the UDHR that no group included on their map? How can this be explained?

-          No, they are locating it correctly.

How could town/city planners might use information like this when they develop areas for their citizens?

-          Firstly, they will recognize the type of area and what are the needs in it.  Secondly, they will know the amount of services that suits the population.  Finally, They will order the needs and know the most needed articles to know the concentration level that they will create.

Exercise #3

Human Rights Activity 

Working in pairs, discuss and choose 3-5 specific rights that relate to the different levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?  Mark on Maslow's Pyramid... (Attach)

   “Right to equality” (Article 1).  The article aims to achieve the base need in Maslow pyramid which is physiological needs.  People should be treated equally and get their living elements in equal.

   “Right to life, Liberty, Personal Security” (Article 3).  This article directly points on the second level of Maslow pyramid under the topic of safety.  The article says that everyone has the right to live in a freedom and safety.

     “Freedom from Slavery” (Article 4).  People should be treated in equal to feel love and belonging, slavery takes this feeling from them and split up families and human lost his belongings.  This article relate to the third need in Maslow pyramid (Love and Belonging).

Exercise #6

UNICEF Activity 1: Exercise #6

Open the link http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uae_44659.html

List and discus the latest newsline events in the United Arab Emirates

1-Giving Money to Jeboti for vaccination and opening health facilities

2- Arab Media Award on Child Rights initiates to honor outstanding achievements.

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
Homeless shelters	Help preparing meals Collect clothes for residents of the shelter Help distribution of their needs
Food banks	Collect food Manage their inventory distribute food to those in need
Wishes for children	Referring a child Fulfilling a wish Volunteering for children's wish
Blood banks	Donating blood  Recommend people to donate blood

1.     Takatof - Exercise #6

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?

It is a Social Volunteering organization. It finds creative and sustainable solutions for proven community needs. It is also a nationwide volunteering initiative in United Arab Emirates  

Which year did start? And who started it?
It was established in 2005, it was started by H.H Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nayhan.

What volunteer work have they done?
Formula 1 project
Ramadan project
Jacket distribution 
Tucaloosa, Tornado recovery aid

How can you help?
I would volunteer almost everywhere, anytime to help the community.

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.       Building mosques

b.      Building schools

c.       Building homes

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

a.       Afghanistan

b.      Syria

c.       Palestine

d.      Maldives

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

 - 180,830,333 Dirhams

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

                           - Health , Education , 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
	disasters	Natural sudden accidents that cause great damage
	crises	Intense difficulty
	rehabilitation	Recovery
	infrastructure	The basic of a structure
	devastation	Great destruction
	public utilities	Services

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

a.       Tsunami

b.      Earthquakes

c.       Flooding

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