1. Title of plan
Future Centre Volunteering Project
2. Names of group participants:
Salem Ali Hasan Mohammed Alhammadi - H00269480
Salah Mubarak Abdullatif Abdulrasool Mohamed - H00269525
Saif Saeed Saif Sulaiman Almemari - H00269418
Butti Mohamed Salem Zunaid Alqubaisi - H00269136
Mohamed Abdulla Salem Maar Alameri - H00269123
3. Organization (name) and contact person (supervisor + email):
Future Center for special needs
Contact person: Ms. Anjum Jaffer (Head of Education)
Tel: +971 2 5533506
4. Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?
This project has many purposes for the target recipients. First of all we are going to try our best to get their trust and we want to help them and we can do this by listening to them, we want from them to learn the basics skills to move with their lives and the skills depends on the need. For example we will teach the blind people how to depend on the other senses to avoid getting hit by things or to walk etc. Second of all we want to spread the awareness about the special needs to other people to know how to deal with them and that will be by showing them the right way to deal with there needs by giving them lessons and classes. The third purpose and I think it’s the most important one, which is to let the students with special needs participate in the community through job training, and by letting them participate with the sport events outside the centre this thing will help them the most because they are humans and they need to be social same as everyone they don’t need to be locked away from everyone. This course try to let us improve our planning skills and in my opinion this is important too for our college life and in our daily life, we will learn how to be on time and everything.
5. Time/ schedule: students will volunteer for how many hours / week? Days?
The Students will volunteer for 5 weeks, 4 hours per week divided into two days to complete 20 hours in total. Starting after the 19th of Oct.
It will be on Monday and Tuesday from 10:30 to 12:30.
6. To be successful what need to be done?
First of all, to be successful in this project we need to learn how to deal with the students in the centre and it will be by getting their trust by listening to them and they will know that we are friendly guys who wants to help. And in the end if we were successful the students will learn some basics skills and they will be comfortable dealing with us and to deal with the community, they will be able to play sports, use some computer programs, and to draw or to paint in the art class. All of this will lead to let the students to be comfortable with the society and people. And it depends on the class level and goals.
7. What are the Benefits to the participants? (Both volunteers and recipients)
As volunteers we will get many benefits such as; we will learn about the volunteering and how it will be done, what should we do and who should we contact? And we will learn more about the disabilities and what are their needs, how they face their disabilities, and we will learn how to deal with them because they’re very sensitive and anything could effect badly on them. About the target recipients they will have someone to listen to them and this is the most important thing, they need to tell how good they’re doing and they want some to listen to their thoughts and ideas. They will have the opportunities to improve their skills depending on their needs, they will get many skills using the computer and to play some sports they will have a partner to do it with them, after all they will have the confidence to be involve with others in the centre or outside, in the society and it’s the main purpose.
8. Any potential problem you see arising?
We will face some difficulty during the volunteering project and we will try to pass it. The first problem is getting the students trust because they’re sensitive and anything maybe we see it normal they get hurt by it so we should be careful when we deal with them for the first time, we should get their trust by listening to them and we should be patient. The second problem is the privacy of the centre which it doesn’t allowed you to take pictures you should turn your phone down, because we need the pictures for the project, we will contact with instructor and to find what could we do about and to get the permission to take photos. The third problem is the volunteering time and it’s only in the morning so we need time to go there and come back so maybe we are going to be late on our classes or on the centre but will ask for 15 minutes to go early to the centre and the same thing about the centre so we could be on time.
