UNICEF + Takatof Activity: Exercise #6

UNICEF Activity 1: Exercise #6

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

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

-         Arab media Award on Child Rights initiated to honor outstanding achievements.

-         UNICEF and Dubai Cares support quality education to break the cycle of poverty.

-         Police boost AIDS campaign in 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
Education for children	-         Volunteer as teacher. -         Donate books.	-
Protection from hard working	-         Awareness campaigns. -         Support laws that forbid children working in poverty countries.
Protect children from diseases	-         Donate medicines. -         Offer doctors -         Spread awareness through parents.
Clean sources of living	-         Build water filtering stations in poverty countries. -         Donate healthy food.

1.     Takatof - Exercise #6

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?

A social volunteering programme in United Arab Emirates that established in 2005.  Takatof vision is to offer a better community by offering people social volunteering projects.  It offers the society creative solutions under the dress of volunteering.

  

Which year did start? And who started it?

It starts in 2005 under the patronage of his highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?

They’ve worked on many projects, some of them were inside UAE while the others outside UAE.  For instance, training programs to develop the volunteer’s skills, Formula 1 project, Ramadan project and school makeover campaign.  Furthermore, Tanzanian project and Tornado recovery aid in USA are two projects that were outside the UAE.

How can you help?

We can offer them help by volunteer and join their training programs.  In addition, we can offer them some new ideas for projects that they may handle in the future.  Furthermore, we can spot the light on some issues in our society that they could fix by a creative volunteering project.