Day3 IN ADNEC- Volunteer Project

26-3-2014

Wednesday

This time I started my day with Emirets Autism Society and We did an interview with the Head of Abu Dhabi Committee of Emirates Autism society (Fkhrya AlNuamani):

1-  Tell me about Emirates Autism society? 

It is a society with a public interest, it begin when a group of volunteers mothers  “who have a relative with autism” decided to know more about this disability and communicate with other organizations and society who is interested in autism.

2-What are the difficulties that you’ve faced it when you were work on establish the society?

In the beginning we didn’t have enough information about Autism so we started seeking for information from everywhere and we searched for the experience workers that had work with autism children and know how to deal with them.

Then we communicated with ministry of social affairs and apply a request to considerate the society as an official society and it has been accepted in 5^th of May 2012 and we started to present many problems for autism children.

3-Tell me what is your participations in abilities, why?

We went to show that we are an important member in the community and we want everyone to know more about our society. And to benefit from it.

4- What is your next plants and events?

We have a lot of training program and workshop also we have programs like (My Talent) it is a program that look for all kind o children of autism have it. And try to develops it into a product for marking also we have a campaigns in second of April, which is will be in dubai and there will be a lecture and workshop and free time check up for autism children

At this time some guys from desert group were drawing a beautiful painting. this guys work in desert group and they were planting a very nice flowers.

Also some football players visit abilities to support special needs Ismael Matar, Sebastian Tagliabue

On this day my teacher Gregory came to visit us in abilities and we were happy of his visiting :

In the end Eman from ZHO give us our certificate

Actually it was a very good experience and my total hours are 16.And I would like to do it again, Because it give a very good feeling and a new viewpoint of the life=).