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. Building Schools to the poor countries
b. Somal’s poverty Aid
c. Donating to syria
2.
Name at least 4 countries the UAERC has worked in to provide various
project assistance
a. Syria
b. Somal
c. Palastine
d. Afica
3.
What was the estimated total cost of projects undertaken in the UAE
during 2009?
180, 830, 333 Million
4.
According to the information about the foreign based projects, which
group of projects received funding of 8,373,558 Dirhams?
External Projects
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
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My/Our own
meaning
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reconstruction
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Rebuilding
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disasters
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Catastrophes
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crises
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Disaster
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rehabilitation
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Recovery
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infrastructure
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Structure
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devastation
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Damage
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public utilities
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Services
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6.
Name three situations which are listed as �natural disasters�.
a. Earth Quakes
b. Storms
c. Tsunami
7.
Crescent Volunteers University
What are the
three areas of training/qualification that university students could work
towards?
a. First Aid
b. Volunteer work
c. The international Humanitarian law
