exercise 7

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 mosques

b.     Digging wells

c.      Building houses

2.              Name at least 4 countries the UAERC has worked in to provide various project assistance

a.      Palestine

b.     Yemen

c.      Sudan

d.     pakistan

3.              What was the estimated total cost of projects undertaken in the UAE during 2009?

180 million

4.              According to the information about the foreign based projects, which group of projects received funding of 8,373,558 Dirhams?

Projects in health <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.

	Translation Term	My/Our own meaning
	reconstruction	Rebuild
	disasters
	crises
	rehabilitation	Reform, repair
	infrastructure
	devastation	Destroy
	public utilities

6.              Name three situations which are listed as �natural disasters�.

a.      Floods

b.     Earthquake

c.      Volcano’s

7.              Crescent Volunteers University

What are the three areas of training/qualification that university students could work towards?

a.      First aid

b.     Voluntary work methods

 

c. international humanitarian law and the humanitarian issue

exercise 6

UNICEF Activity 1:

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

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

…Annual award for the young people in the Arab nation of the middle east to recognize media stories

1- Arab Media Award on Child Rights initiated to honour outstanding achievments.(It's an award for the best written story that represents best the children rights.)
2- UNICEF and Dubai Cares support quality education to break the cycle of poverty.(It's a campaign to collect donations to educate 1 million child)
3- Police boost AIDS campaign in Dubai.(It's a campaign to aware people about AIDS and it included a march through the streets of 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
Increase the awareness nitration about the children’s	Going to school and lecture and aware them
Aware old people to eat healthy food and doing sports	Visiting homes and talk to the oldies about consuming healthy food
Increase the awareness about how bad is smoking   Aware children’s about racism and slavery	Going to company’s and work zone and aware them and present lecture

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?

Takatof is a Programme for Social Volunteering is a nationwide volunteering initiative in the United Arab Emirates ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  

Which year did start? And who started it?
takatof was launched in Abu Dhabi in April 2007 with an inaugural school renovation event__________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What volunteer work have they done?
Takatof is working to create a culture of volunteering throughout the UAE. It offers all residents of the country an opportunity to volunteer in an Emirati environment through activities that promote community involvement, national identity and citizenship. ________________________________________________________________

How can you help?

__we can volunteer with takatof and work with them ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________