LSH 2903 – Community Service – Learning / Exercise #7

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.

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.

http://rcuae.ae/

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.  Housing projects     
b.  Health projects

c.  Education projects       

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

a. Palestine      

b. Yemen       

c. Syria      

d. Sudan       

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

180,830,333 Dhs

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

                        Health, education and other infrastructure 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.

	Translation Term	My/Our own meaning
	reconstruction	building something that has been damaged
	disasters	great damage
	crises	time of great disagreement
	rehabilitation	return someone or something to a good condition
	infrastructure	basic services
	devastation	damage
	public utilities	services

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

a. heat waves  

b. droughts    

c. floods     

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

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

a.First aid        

b. Volunteer work methods       

c.   The International humanitarian law