Volunteering plan

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

1.    Title of plan – Abu Dhabi science festival – Community service

2.    Names of group participants:

Fatima Jamal al Naqbi – H00279491

Nora Ahmed Al Wahedi – H00251935

3.    Organization (name) and contact person (supervisor + email): 

Edinburgh International Science Festival – Rana Mansour: rmansour@hct.ac.ae

4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

I would like to get this opportunity to communicate and demonstrate our capabilities to the public, it will enhance my communication skills as well as sending a good message that the audience will receive and understand clearly.

  

5.    Time/ schedule: students will volunteer for how many hours / week? Days?  

The ADSF will start on the 13^th of nov and will end by the 22^nd. It will take place at Abu Dhabi cornice in the arena. Students will volunteer for 20 hours in two weeks.

6.    To be successful what need to be done?

In the end, students must be able to communicate, present, engage audiences, simplify messages, communicate without words and make an impact for the younger ones.

  

7.    What are the Benefits to the participants?

Volunteers will get a positive experience and rewards, enhancing our skills and revealing our talent. However, the kids will also learn and get to try beneficial experiments and games.

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
Housing	- Supporting them mentally - providing them with shelters - provide them with basic food and needs
Helping everyone to be educated	- Paying for anyone who can get education. - Donate books. - Open centers to teach the old people.
protecting the society from Chronic diseases	- Periodically check for everyone specially the elders. - spread the awareness about Diabetes because its one of the highest Chronic diseases in the UAE.
worker human rights	- spread the awareness campaigns.   - Support the laws that forbid hiring children and obey them

Activity 3 : Takatof

What is Takatof?

The Takatof Program for Social Volunteering is a nationwide volunteering initiative in the United Arab Emirates. It is one of the principal initiatives of the Emirates Foundation, a charitable organization

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. Launched in Abu Dhabi in April 2007

What volunteer work have they done?

- Takatof for School Renovation: This program gives volunteers unique opportunities for semi-skilled work in revamping schools – painting, cleaning, gardening and site cleaning, as well as replacing furniture and modernizing library and laboratory facilities.

- Volunteering in the Health Sector:

Volunteers for this program perform highly useful health and administrative activities at hospitals and health centers, such as providing personal support, guidance and other services for patients, as well as receiving visitors and helping nursing staff.

- Takatof for Special Needs:

Participation in this program provides frequent opportunities for volunteers to utilize their leisure time through voluntary work for people with special needs. This develops their skills and life experience through humanitarian action, in collaboration with the various UAE centers for special needs.

How can you help?
Involve in such organizations and help to benefit and help as much as we can from these opportunities.

UNICEF Activity 1

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

-        A new annual award is being initiated this year to recognize media stories that accurately depict the situation of children and young people in the Arab nations.

-        UNICEF has joined forces with the Gulf charity Dubai Cares to support education programs in Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia and the Middle East. The new partnership is part of a campaign by Dubai Cares to bring education to 1 million children in developing countries and help contribute towards the achievement of universal primary education 2015.

-        UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS. The aim is to focus on raising awareness about the disease among children and young people to prevent the spread of HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS.