Exercise #7

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.       By expanding the camp all the way to Jordan for the Syrian’s refugees.

b.      By implementation of health and the social program of the Palestinian territory.

c.        By making new projects that are for the Palestinian Red Crescent society for the next three years.

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

a.       Palestinian

b.       Pakistan

c.       Sirlanke

d.      Syria

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

-          180,830,333 million

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

-          The external 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	Ruins, mischances
	Crises	Disaster
	rehabilitation	Recovery
	infrastructure	Organization, structure
	devastation	Damage, destruction
	public utilities	Values, services

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

a.       Deluge

b.       Storms

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 

Human Rights Activity/ Exercise #4

Human Rights Activity/ Exercise #4

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?

< 1-Schools & colleges : Right to Education.

< 2- Hospitals : Right to life, liberty, personal security.

< !3- Mosque : Freedom of belief and religion.

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

Yes, Mussafah has a few rights because it very crowded with trucks and factories, so very few people live there.

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

 

Hospitals : Right to life, liberty, personal security.

Mosque : Freedom of belief and religion.

 

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

Yes, Airports : Right to free movement in and out of the country.

 

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

To be fair about the rights and consider each area to have the same parts.

Exercise #6

 

 

UNICEF Activity 1:

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

List and discus the latest news line events in the United Arab Emirates

1-    Arab media award on child rights initiated to honor outstanding achievements.

2-    Giving money to jeboti.

3-    Stop the violence in the South Sudan.

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
Health Awareness	Going out to the community and aware them about the food.
Abroad poverty Aid	Going to countries who need help to live and help them so they can live.
Sports activities in the beach	By doing a sport event that will tell the people to know the importance of sports and the exercises.
Support the traffic week	We must respect the police and respect the streets, published posters to aware the people to drive in a good and polite way in the streets.

 Takatof

 

 

Activity 1

What is Takatof?

-         It is a program for social volunteering is a nationwide volunteering initiative in the United Arab Emirates, and one of the principal initiatives of the Emirates Foundation.

 

Which year did start? And who started it?

 

       It was established in 2005, started by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?

-   Taktouf Ramadan Project 
-   Tornado recovery Aid
 -   Jacket distribution campaign
-    Formula 1 project

How can you help?

-         I would  not mind to volunteer and  help the community either it is big projects or it is small projects. Also I wouldn’t mind going abroad and helping the people who wants help because I’m a good citizen.

Exercise #5

Listen again and see if you can work out the answers to these questions about the interview:

1.                  How old were the Games volunteers? All ages

2.                  During the Games, the volunteers had a special title. What was this special title?

Games Makers

3.                  Complete this quote from David… “… For a moment in time volunteering had a profile and an image that they fully deserve but don’t always get.”

4.                  David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? Working part time

5.                  Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located?

Olympic Stadium

6.                  How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? Fantastic, an experience

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.       Meet new people

b.      Confidence

c.       Fun

d.      Satisfaction

8.                  Why does David feel that volunteering in the community is so important?

Organization that it will support the volunteers of all ages of the community with all the free time they have.

 This page is also from AGE UK.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/volunteers-week/

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur	Age UK Harpenden volunteer
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey Analyst volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Copywriter volunteer
4	Stanley Parker	Market Drayton shop volunteer
5	Camilla Williamson	Volunteer Parliamentary Assistant

Look again at these people and their jobs. What can you say about volunteering from the information in your chart?

Stanley is 95 while Oliver is 17, this means that age doesn’t matter if you have skills you can help you can volunteer.