2903 Final Reflection

Reflection

In the last couple of weeks I started the community service in Al Ain. I choose AL Ain because I live in Al Ain, and I can not be arsed to volunteer in Abu Dhabi due to the distance. I volunteered through out organization that was inspired by HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed. It’s called TAKATOF and it has branches around Abu Dhabi city, one branch is located in Al Ain where I decided to volunteer. I volunteered 5 times in Breast Cancer Event, Al Ain Disable sport Club, Blood donation, Collecting cloths and Winter Distributing Jackets. TAKATOF has a lot of volunteering types, and it always comes depending in the time of the year, that’s why I volunteered in 5 different Events unlike my teammates who volunteered in Abu Dhabi.

I had a lot of fun and interesting moments when I volunteered in Al Ain city. The best moment so far was in AL Ain Disable Sport Club, when we volunteered to play and entertain the disabled children there. We played football and them and then we played some small games at the club. The best moment is me experiencing what I call real volunteering, like for example interacting with the disabled children and learn about how they are disabled. And then getting to know them more. I can describe the experience that I had there, but I am so satisfied by volunteering there. The sad moment happened in the same day where the the children didn’t like the idea of us leaving after the games and I felt sad for them.

Everyday I say that my time in volunteering was worth the try. I learned and experienced many new stuffs, and more importantly I supported and improved my community with the donations, poverty, disables and cancer events. I learned that God gives and takes, if you think that X man have a better life than you, then look at the Y man who doesn’t even have a leg or cant walk extr and extra. I also learned how to get along with new people, since I spent all my life with relatives and neighbors.

To any student who read this, thank you for reading and I advise you to give the course a try. This course will help me overcome difficulties in life and also engineering wise.

Takatof Montage about What we did back in the Firt Volunteering BREAST CANCER

Interview with Takatof Employee

TAKATOF INTERVIEW

http://en.file-upload.net/download-9927163/INTERVIEW.3gp.html


With mr. Bander an employee of TAKATOF MAIN OFFICE.


Hi my name is Abdulla Awad Al Sayari, I'm going to interview a man who work in TAKATOF head quarter in Abu Dhabi.



Tell me about Takatof.

Takatof is a volunteering social program, offers the nation's youth meaningful opportunities to volunteer for important social causes.


Tell me more please.

Takatof connects the youth with relevant volunteering opportunities and encoourges public service. Takatof youth are ambassadors of our nation representing a culture of support and the strength of our society's core values.

Takatof particularly offers yound people meaningful opportunities to volunteer for humanitarian, social and community programs that serve those least able to help themselves. Embracing a commitment to social responsiblity and public serive, an adherence to strict integrity and ethics and community involvement helps to strengthen the core values of the programme.

Can you please give me a background about Takatof?

Inspired by HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces. Takatof is a voluntary social program, established in 2007, designed by the Emirates Foundation to Foster a culture of volunteering throughout the United Arab Emirates. Takatof mobilizes people and resources acrros the nation to deliver creative and sustainable solutions for proven community needs.

What is Takatof's vision?

We support the idea of volunteering as a way of life. We promote the benefits to the nation as a whole and work to encourge volunteering as a part of UAE culture.


What is Takatof's Mission?

Takatof works to encourge and empower people to take part in voluntary service across the UAE.
Through our varied programmes we train, support and connect volunteers to deliver positive change and improve the quality of life within our communities.

The Fifth Time Volunteering

Abdulla Awad Al Sayari

H00280536

TAKATOOF 

Saturday 22/11/2014

4 hours from 9 am untill 1 pm

Near Al Bawadi Mall 

For the fifth time volunteering, we ended up distributing the cloths and jackets that we collected last week
plus some new jackets we received from Red crescent. We gave the poor people of al ain, mainly asians ( indians, 
pakistan) people. They separated us to 2 groups one was in the east of Al Bawadi Mall and the other in the west.
This time i met new people unlike the people i volunteered with last couple of weeks. There were some locals from 
dubai and abu dhabi. It was really a honorable thing that we did helping the poor people, because all of us are humans
we should help each other, not only in UAE but everywhere in the world. The winter here is not that cold, but its for
 poor people that dont have houses or even cloths to survive winter. So thats what we did to help them, giving them cloths.
this might be the last time i volunteer for the college, but it is not the last time to volunteer. Since i know how to volunteer
now i will make some plans in the future.

The Fourth Volunteering Time

Abdulla Awad Al Sayari

H00280536

TAKATOOF 

Thursday 18/11/2014

4 hours from 6 pm untill 10 pm

Al Bawadi Mall Parks


For the 4th time volunteering, they asked us to collect cloths and jackets for the poor people in al ain city. Our job
was simply to collect them and send them to the red crescent ( Al Helal Al Aahmr ), and red crescent is going to distribute
them to the people who are in need of it. We also gave our old cloths and family old cloths, and we merged them with the collection.
Some of us toke the cloths to the assemply points that the rred crescent made in many parts of al ain city, and the rest gave them to 
Takatof truck's who was going to give them to red crescent. I really like volunteering, but volunteering to help poor people is what 
i like the most about volunteering. It is good to volunteer orgnizing events, but helping people is more fun for me.

Abdulla Awad Hejail Al Sayari

H00280536 CJM

TAKATOOF

Al Ain Mall

Thursday 6-11-2014

4 hours Volunteering 8 pm to 12 am

For the third time volunteering, our supervisor ( TAKATOOF Supervisor ) called us and asked
for us to volunteer for the Blood Donation Campaign. Our job was simple and easy, we just had
to prepare the donation bus at Al Ain Mall Parks, and to organize people who wanted to donate
and a part of our group went inside Al Ain Mall to attract people to donate and tell them how
important its to safe the lifes of other people in need of blood. I wanted to donate but i have
a lack of blood, and they told me to eat tomatos to get more blood hahaha.in the End i find that
many people want to donate but they didnt know about the bus, everyone donated young people, old
people, men and women. We also learned that donating blood is something healthier for our bodies.

Volunteering for the Second time

Abdulla Awad Hejail Al Sayari

H00280536 CJM

TAKATOOF

Thursday 6-11-2014

4 hours Volunteering 8 am to 12pm

Al Ain Sports club for Disabled.

For the second time volunteering we went to Al Ain Sports Club for Disabled.We had to take ideas and orientation in how to deal with disabled people in order for us to volunteer. At the first time we get there, we didn't get a long with them since they don't know us but after a while they got used to us and we had fun playing basketball, well i didn't bring any sport cloths so i was cheering for them instead. We had fun with them and they really had fun with us. We also sat with them and communicating with them while playing small games, at this time exactly we got a long with each other. When our volunteer ended, they really felt bad about us leaving and one of them hugged me( i swear ).