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.
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. In 2009
they build around 100 houses and made maintenance for many houses that owned by
poor people around the UAE, and also they build and made a maintenance for a 19
mosques.
b. They made
projects for education and housing in Afghanistan, Siri-lanka, India Yemen and Palestine.
c. Drilling
of over 2254 wells total the cost of 12 million 993 thousands and 605 dirhams.
2.
Name at least 4 countries the UAERC has worked in to
provide various project assistance
a. Yemen
b. Palestine
c. Sudan
d. Maldives
3.
What was the estimated total cost of projects
undertaken in the UAE during 2009?
It costs over 180 million dirhams.
4.
According to the information about the foreign based
projects, which group of projects received funding of 8,373,558 Dirhams?
Housing, education, health and other 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.
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Translation
Term
|
My/Our
own meaning
|
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reconstruction
|
rebuilding
|
|
disasters
|
catastrophe
|
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crises
|
Problem
– squeeze
|
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rehabilitation
|
repair
|
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infrastructure
|
Foundation
of building
|
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devastation
|
destruction
|
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public
utilities
|
Public
services
|
6.
Name three situations which are listed as �natural disasters�.
a. hurricanes
b. volcanoes
c. Earthquakes
7.
Crescent Volunteers University
What are the three areas of training/qualification
that university students could work towards?
a. First
aid.
b. Methods
of volunteer work.
c. Public
Relations Committee.
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