Final Community Service Self-Reflection

Self-Reflection 

      During April 21^st until May 22^nd of 2015, I volunteered in Zayed higher organization for humanitarian and special need. Volunteers play a crucial part in helping us bring about lasting improvements in the quality of life for disabilities people. Either you give a couple of hours, a day or a year; I really appreciate the time that I spent with them.

      In the beginning of this course I thought it will be not interesting only dealing with some English writing likewise other LSS or LSF courses. At the same time, after I began my volunteering arrangement with I changed my mind. My project was volunteering in ZHO as I said before. Where there are five workshops Electrical, Mechanical, Tailor and the office workshop, were people with different needs are taught different skills depending on their level of comprehension and understanding.

     In Zayed Rehabilitation Center, I can honestly say that this changed my view on many things but first let me describe the experience. I met special needs and autism people and found about their achievements. For example, one of them drown an exact picture of Shaikh Zayed and he won the trophy of the best paint in UAE last year. Furthermore, I went to the Electronics Workshop, in this workshop, students learn the methods for installation, removal and repair of micro-electronic devices. Safety is a critical training component of this workshop, and this made this workshop the best part in my whole volunteer days but I was sad that time because it was my last day in ZHO so no more electronic workshop again but I’m thinking to renew my volunteer there or work in this workshop I had applied my resume to work in this great organization.

      I gained from this experience that the world never stops on exceptional needs life, however regardless they have the capacity and trust. They can do a ton and they can give the group as we do, yet they require the chance to find out themselves.

     All in all, I trust that each individual on the planet can comprehend those class of individuals and give them the opportunity to work in their organization, regard them and don't consider them with empathy. After this experience my vision was completely changed as I had apprehension to manage uncommon needs individuals. I believed that they are not ready to work but rather now I knew they find themselves able to do anything they need regardless of what kind of incapacities that they have, despite everything they can give on their way. At last, I might want to rehash this experience and find their universes more to support them.

Time attendance sheet

Fifth week at ZHO (20hour done)

      Today, 20 of May 2015 i went to Zayed Higher Organization at 10 AM, and it was the last day for me. As usual i signed in with Mrs.Fatima AlHamily she helped me to make an interview and a survey with two of the best special needs student she have one of them is dealing with files in filing room and the other is in binding workshop.





      The first video is Mohamed Ibrahim AlKhoori let us see



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRlpB5zH1iI




       Second Video is Ahmed AlMansoori talking about his life and his duty in the filing room



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ilFO92X98s




That was my whole journey in Zayed Higher Organization

Fourth week at ZHO (16 hour done)

      Today, 13 of May 2015 i went to Zayed Higher Organization at 10 PM, i signed in  with Mrs.Fatimah then i went to The Electronics Workshop

      In this workshop , students learn the methods for installation , removal and repair of micro-electronic devices .Safety is a critical training component of this workshop , as well as, learning about quality standards of production which must be met when working with electrical devices . the proper use of the many tools needed to work with electronics requires extensive training , good fine motor skills , eye-hand coordination skills. 

Disabilities:

·        Mental disabilities

·        Physical disabilities

·        Autism

·        Down syndrome

·        Hearing impairment

·        Difficulty learning

·        Prader-Willi syndrome

Products:

·        LED flashlight from recycled materials

·        Build a simple educational projects

·        Solar powered charger

·        The power box (interior parts of the project) in collaboration with the workshop  electricity

·        Faults detector

Achievements:

·        Get first place three years in a row in the IT marathon competition at Emirates University

·        Participate in the Robot marathon

·        Using recycled materials to produce  new products

·        Participate in all events 

Third week at ZHO (12 hour done)

       Today, 5th of May 2015 i went to Zayed Higher Organization at 10 PM and by coincidence i faced Dr. Gregory (our course tutor) he was setting with miss Fatima.

Suddenly Mr.Ahmed AlMansoori (the HR manager) joined the room, he took me to registration room and i felled up the registration form, then i went back to Fatima she were with Dr.Gregory in the filling room. (Picture of Ahmed is going to be here next update)

Over there i met tow guys who has special abilities in filing and talking with other people they are Hasan Al Junaibi and Ahmed Al Mansoori, i had had a great conversation with Hassan he was very friendly and he told me about his life and his experience in ZHO. 

( picture of Hasan on the left and the filing room members )

       After that I want to other class which is Arabic class and the students were good in learning and they listen and respond for everyone, i helped them with writing letters.


       Finally I went to the sport class and I helped them to do some exercises and it was really funny.
I had a great three hours there and i will visit more rooms and classes next week to show you what is ZHO and what is there and what is the mentality of the student they have.

Second Week At ZHO (8 hours done)

       Today, Wednesday 22/April/2015 (8.am to 12.pm). I  went to the second class i join in ZHO which is cleaver games room and there were 5 student and they were good in many games.

I  saw them do some thinking games and one of them was very good and he did most of the games. when they do well in the games the teacher let them do something they like the most for example playing in the computer or drawing.

After that, i went to painting room and i met Mr.Salem (painting teacher), he told me about his class and about the students. The class had 5 special need students ( I recall only Mohammed and Ali ) because they are the top painter in the class. Ali showed me his paintings and i like it ( i tried to help him but i found that actually i need help regarding painting), one of his paintings was Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan ( The founder of UAE ).
  This workshop is heaving duty commercial machines and equipment are used in this workshop for binding , printing , and copying purposes. Students in this workshop use different designs and techniques to create high quality product. This workshop is a main resource for producing used in Zayed Higher Organization meetings and conferences.

Disabilities:

·        Mental disabilities

·        Physical disabilities

·        Autism

·        Down syndrome

·        Difficulty learning

·        Wheelchairs

·        Prader-Willi syndrome

Products:

·        Badges

I really like it and i'm thinking to buy it from him to be a great memory of ZHO great story to tell my children. (Pictures of Ali and his painting are going to be here next week)

Furthermore, I went to help the other three students in drawing and coloring(only draw a trees, houses and sky).

The First Week At ZHO (4 hours done)

Today the 21^th of April I did volunteer from 8 AM to 12 PM and I had an awesome day in Zayed Higher Organization (ZHO) which will be my volunteer project with Mr.Gregory. 

when I entered ZHO, the administrator(Fatima) took me for a tour inside the organization,  I really enjoyed the place and I had a great 2 hours with miss Fatima to fill up the registration form and she told me a brief summary about ZHO and what are she doing there. 

Fatima told me that she is an organizer manager and she is the one who organize the parties, events and conferences.

After that then she took me to preparation and rehabilitation workshop i met Mr.Alaa and he introduced me to the special need students.

      In this workshop the student learn new levels of academical and vocational skills . they start here when they are 14 years old  . usually they came from other department of the center but there are other came from home or school . There are a lot of different Disabilities whom training students learn to write and read the numbers, and how to grab the scissors the right way, as well as keeping a pen and ruler and underline the right way, and many of the works that qualify them to enter any of the workshops section. And through which students prepare and qualify them to work in specialized workshops according to their preferences, abilities and aptitudes, after they have been providing them with accurate and professional skills training on safety general rules for workshops laws.

      Those students need a lot of work they put them in this class to help them improve their abilities so they can find out what they are actually specialist are, so they can put them in their fields. 

I had a great 2 hours also there and i will show you next week more about ZHO and the student over there.  

Goals:

·   Prepare students academically and professionally to know  each student's capabilities.

·        Work on changing  bad  behaviors and  new behaviors.

·        Teach the student to work together

Disabilities:

·        Prader-Willi syndrome

·        Mental disabilities

·        Physical disabilities

·        Autism

·        Hyper Active

·        Down syndrome

·        Hearing impairment

·        Difficulty learning

·        Wheelchairs

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan form

1.    Title of plan – ZHO – Community service

2.    Names of group participants:

Abdulkareem Al-Ameeri   – H00258370

Ahmed Omar                     –  

 

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

ZHO–  Khalsa :

4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

    This project has many purposes for the target recipients. First of all we are going to try our best to get their trust and we want to help them and we can do this by listening to them, we want from them to learn the basics skills to move with their lives and the skills depends on the need. For example we will teach the blind people how to depend on the other senses to avoid getting hit by things or to walk etc. Second of all we want to spread the awareness about the special needs to other people to know how to deal with them and that will be by showing them the right way to deal with their needs by giving them lessons and classes. The third purpose and I think it’s the most important one, which is to let the students with special needs participate in the community through JOB training, and by letting them participate with the sport events outside the center this thing will help them the most because they are humans and they need to be social same as everyone they don’t need to be locked away from everyone. This course tries to let us improve our planning skills and in my opinion this is important too for our college life and in our daily life, we will learn how to be on time and everything.

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

     We will volunteer for 5 weeks, 4 hours per week divided into two days to complete 20 hours in total.

Starting after the 19th of APRIL.

It will be on Tuesday & wednesday from 10:30 to 12:30.

6.    To be successful what need to be done?

    First of all, to be successful in this project we need to learn how to deal with the students in the centre and it will be by getting their trust by listening to them and they will know that we are friendly guys who wants to help

7.    What are the Benefits to the participants?

           As volunteers we will get many benefits such as; we will learn about the volunteering and how it will be done, what should we do and who should we contact? And we will learn more about the disabilities and what are their needs, how they face their disabilities, and we will learn how to deal with them because they’re very sensitive and anything could affect badly on them. About the target recipients they will have someone to listen to them and this is the most important thing, they need to tell how good they’re doing and they want some to listen to their thoughts and ideas. They will have the opportunities to improve their skills depending on their needs, they will get many skills using the computer and to play some sports they will have a PARTNER to do it with them, after all they will have the confidence to be involve with others in the center or outside, in the society and it’s the main purpose. 

8.    Any potential problem you see arising?

    We will face some difficulty during the volunteering project and we will try to pass it. The first problem is getting the students trust because they’re sensitive and anything maybe we see it normal they get hurt by it so we should be careful when we deal with them for the first time, we should get their trust by listening to them and we should be patient. The second problem is the privacy of the center which it doesn’t allowed you to take pictures you should turn your phone down, because we need the pictures for the project, we will contact with instructor and to find what could we do about and to get the permission to take photos. The third problem is the volunteering time and it’s only in the morning so we need time to go there and come back so maybe we are going to be late on our classes or on the center but will ask for 15 minutes to go early to the center and the same thing about the center so we could be on time.

Exercise #5

Community Service LSH– Exercise #5

Nowadays, we rely on young people to create the world in which we live, grow and thrive, the main aim of the Lestho volunteers is to create a school that is made up and financed by a volunteering forum for the disabled people. The school provides them with all the needs and hospitality, including accommodation, health care and education.

Exercise #4

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #4

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur	Admin and information volunteering
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey analyst volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Internal communication team, copy writer 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?

Volunteering is such an inspiring experience and mutual beneficial that develops skills and also teaches your skills to others.

Exercise #3

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #3

1. How old were the Games volunteers? _______All the ages_________

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

 _____Half retired and half working_____

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

 ______Olympic Stadium - London______

6.              How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? _______Fantastic and great experience_______________

7.              What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.     ___Fun____

b.     ___Satisfaction___

c.     ___Meet new people____

d.     ___Improve self confidence____

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

____For society and community____

Exercise 3

Maslow’s Human Needs-Exercise #3

Working in groups, discuss and answer the following questions:

1. Does every human being have the right to reach the top of the Maslow pyramid?

Yes, every human have the right to reach top of the Maslow pyramid.

2. Does every human being have the capability of reaching that level?

No, not every human being have the capability to reach the top level if they don’t have the basic needs like: 

* Water 

* Foods

* Cloths..etc,

3. What are the opportunities are needed to get to the higher level?

* Gifts

* Support 

* Environment

4. What are the obstacles could stand in the way of reaching these levels?

* Scared

* Safety/Confidence

* Motivation

* inspiration 

5. What could you do to help others to reach the higher levels?

We could help them by provide the suitable environment, motivate them, self-Actualization.