Self Reflection

            Volunteering is a new experience that I enjoyed in because I did new things I learned a lot of things and I met new people.

            First of all I volunteered on “Abilities me” I was very excited because it was my first experience in volunteering, I thought about volunteering before but I did not had a chance so it was a good opportunity for me.

The meeting was in the day before the beginning of “Abilities me” they introduce us to the fair aspects and tell us about the places of the activates and conference etc..

            First day was the hardest because we were new to this experience but it was good I was on the workshop and then we helped in some souvenirs. Second day was okay I’m still in the workshop and I went to the emirate autism society to help them also there was a very big event in that day sheikh Saif bin Zayed came to the fair it was an honor to meet him, in the third day a lot of things were happening our teacher came to the fair and also players of alwahda team I worked in the workshop and I helped two blind ladies in the conference.

            I learned a lot of thing like disabilities people can achieve, they also can be better than the normal people in some times, this experience changed my outlook in many was now I will not be afraid of hearting there feelings now I know that if they want any help they will ask for it they don’t have to feel like the are in need for us or some thing like that.

            In the end I think that I see it differently now and I will not look at them as if they are disabilities people and they can’t do any thing but I will start looking at them as if they are normal people and they can do things better than us.

Volunteering Project day#3

On Wednesday 26th of March, 2014 

On the last day of our interesting experiment we had a very good time with the desert group employee (Hareb, Abduallah, Slah) while there were drawing with Mahra at Emirates Autism soceity stand:

I was in the workshop again on the beginning of the day then I moved to Emirates Autism society stand  and It was a pleasure to have my teacher in the exhibition to see our work and our work places : 

I went with him to "don't let me down" stand because they invited Al Wahda Team to participate in abilities with our champion from UAE football team "Ismael Matar" :

It was a very lovely day with all these events.

My toatal number of hours was 16, I loved these expermient very much and I want to repeat it really, It was so fun and full of learning, I learned how to deal with some of disabilitis like blind people and I hope to do some thing like that again.

We did an interview with the Head of Abu Dhabi Committee of Emirates Autism society (Fkhrya AlNuamani):

1-  Tell me about Emirates Autism society? 

It is a society with a public interest, it begin when a group of volunteers mothers  “who have a relative with autism” decided to know more about this disability and communicate with other organizations and society who is interested in autism.

2-What is the difficulties that you’ve faced it when you were work on establish the society?

In the beginning we didn’t have enough information about Autism so we started seeking for information from everywhere and we searched for the experience workers that had work with autism children and know how to deal with them.

Then we communicated with ministry of social affairs and apply a request to considerate the society as an official society and it has been accepted in 5^th of May 2012 and we started to present many problems for autism children.

3-Tell me what is your participations in abilities, why?

We went to show that we are an important member in the community and we want everyone to know more about our society. And to benefit from it.

4- What is your next plants and events?

We have a lot of training program and workshop also we have programs like (My Talent) it is a program that look for all kind o children of autism have it. And try to develops it into a product for marking also we have a campaigns in second of April, which is will be in dubai and there will be a lecture and workshop and free time check up for autism children.

Volunteering Project day#2

On Tuesday 25th of March, 2014 

In the second day of the volunteering Eman tell us to help tow blind ladies in the conference and I was wondering how I should deal with them in a good way without hearing their feeling, but when I dealt with them I found that it is easier than what I thought.

After guiding the tow ladies to the exit door, we went to the workshop as usual and the subject of the session was about New England Centre for Children.

The big event on that day was the visit of  Sheik Saif Bin Zayed, I took a number of picture of him, and the aim of his visit was to support special needs.

It was an honour to meet his highness Sheik Saf Bin Zayed I was very happy it gave our day its beauty.

Volunteering Project day#1

On Monday 24th of March, 2014 

Abilities the first time to held on middle east on Abu Dhabi it is Exhibitors by number of organization and sheikh nahyan bin mubarak al nahyan.

On the first day of the volunteering project we went to the exhibition on the afternoon, when we arrived we went to Eman the supervisor of volunteers from zayed higher organization to ask her where to start? She told us to go and work in the workshops: it is a small section that gathers people to tell them about stories of disabilities people and introduce people to many organizations that serve special needs like schools for them, societies and other important organizations for them.

I registered people to the session and then after attending it, abilities give them a certificate:

 In that day a famous comedian was invited be "don't let me down" its name is " Abdu Alaziz Aljasmi" he became famous because of an Instagram account, he supported disabilities people:

Near to the end of the day we returne to ZHO stand and we saw Eman so we helped her on doing some souvenirs to the visitors.

Meeting - Sunday, 23rd of March, 2014

23-March-2014 

We went to ADNEC to attend volunteers meeting for abilities me and I took some photos of the exhibition aspects:

Firstly the arrangers gave us an introductory speech about the “abilities me” and the aims of these exhibition&conference is to concentrate on the special needs abilities instead of there disabilities.

In these meeting we learned how to greet people, guide them and about important points that we should/should not do when we deal or meet disabilities people.

Then they gave us a tour in the exhibition so we can guide people to their way into the exhibition aspects, they divided us into groups, each group is responsible for a section of “abilities me”.

while we had a tour and look around the exhibition there was some inventions that will help disabilities people, like these for example:

It is moving in a straight line until something show up in front of it that makes it stops by its self.

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

    Follow this template to organize the primary details about your volunteer project:

     1.    Title of plan –

Supporting the region's Special Needs Community Conference.

     2.    Names of group participants:

j       Ayesha Al Marzouqi

        Mahra Al Ameeri

        Reem Al Tamimi

        Sara Al Marzouqi

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

Zayed Higher Organization for Humanitarian Care and Special Needs.

Eman Al Tamimi; eman.altamimi@zho.ae

     4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

Ex: this project will help the students of Al Hosan School to develop their IT skills 

To help special needs people and give them the chance to fuse in the society through getting into schools, work places or participating in activities.

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

Volunteering will be done throughout 3 days (24-26 March) for around 15-16 hours.

      6.    To be successful what need to be done?

Ex: In the end, students must be able to type 20wpm English typing.  

After this event we need to be able to communicate with special needs, be aware of their difficulties and needs and help them acheive what they're looking for.

              

      7.    What are the Benefits to the participants? (Both volunteers and recipients)

To give to our community, develop our organizational,teamwork and communication skills and get people aware of their role towards special needs.    

                                                                                                                                                                   8.    What are the aims of the project

Give people awareness about special needs , their role in society and their abilities to achieve a lot regardless the type of disability.

2    9 .    Who are the target audience, and why?

People in the society other than special needs, managers of organization. Parents because there are the people that will provide the opportunities and chances for special needs to prevent their abilities.

3   10 .    What activities would your project involve?

We will be organizing the conference, be part of the workshops helping others.

4   11 .    Who would be volunteering?

Ayesha , Reem , Mahra ,Sara.

5   12 .    What are the benefits your project could bring to the target audience?

It will help target audience to consider special needs more in their activities or any opportunities they would offer.

6   13 .    What problems do you think you might come across and how would you try to get around them?

Difficulty in dealing with deaf people, or if autistic children were present we don’t know how to deal with them if they got anxious due to presence of a lot of people do we get closer or keep for away. Also it would be difficult to deliver our massage to the audience that special needs are useful and can achieve a lot even if it was in their own way that we might not understand.