Takatof -UNICEF Activity 1: Exercise #6

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

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

1- Arab Media Award on Child Rights initiated to honour outstanding achievements.(It's an award for the best written story that represents best the children rights.

2- Police boost AIDS campaign in Dubai.

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
Aware old people to eat healthy food and doing sports	Visiting homes and talk to the oldies about consuming healthy food and sportsv
Increase the awareness about how bad is smoking	Going to company’s and work zone and aware them and present lecture
Basic education	Send books, stationery and volunteering teachers.
Children protection	Protect them from the cold weather and hot weather, by building houses and hospitals

1.    Takatof

Click on the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMDUTjeymxk&feature=related

Activity 1

Using Google search for information about Takatof and answer the questions below

What is Takatof?

It is a voluntary social program to help others that aren’t capable of helping themself

Which year did start? And who started it?
It was started at 2007 by HHS Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

What volunteer work have they done?

Community Projects (Environment): Spread awareness among youth to build an environment conscious culture.

How can you help?

By participating in these projects by Takatof

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning / Exercise #5

1. 1.              How old were the Games volunteers? _all ages
2. 2.              During the Games, the volunteers had a special title. What was this special title? game makers
3. 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. 4.              David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? almost retired/half retired , working part time
5. 5.              Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located? at the Olympic stadium
6. 6.              How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? best experience of her life (fantastic)
7. 7.              What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.     Meet new people

b.     Improving you confidence

c.      feels happy and fun

d.     satisfaction

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

Because they give some of their time to the community and organizes with other people from different ages  and that makes them unique

 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	Administration and information volunteer
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey analyst volunteer (European and international unit)
3	Oliver Stannard	Copywriter volunteer (internal communication team)
4	Stanley Parker	Market dray ton 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 isn't restricted for a specific age range or retired or unemployed people. It’s a humanitarian job that anyone can do to give back to their society

Human Rights Activity / Exercise #3

Human Rights Activity 1:

Working in pairs, discuss and write how these rights relate to the different levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

Self-actualization (Article 19)

Esteem (Article2)

Love/belong (article 22)

Safety (article3&12)

Physiological (25)