Day Three in ZHO

Tuesday October 27th 2015

Things were pretty quiet today, since a few of the students did not come, it was a little hard forming teams to play soccer and handball.

However, we sat with a few students and started talking about their interests majority did not share much information, but a few did open up, and I was surprised we had the same interests such as cars for example. 

It is pretty short, hopefully tomorrow things would be a bit more interesting.

First Two days in ZHO Sports

I apologize for not posting what I did yesterday, just a hectic week with exams and such, but I will provide a summary of what happened these two days.

Day 1:-

It was relatively short, we just spent a few minutes getting to know the people there, from Miss Nabila, to the coaches to the students, to even the security guards.

I was relatively uneasy about the whole thing, but I gave it a shot, and I am glad I did, even though it is just the first day, it was a different experience for me, to be able to help someone in actual need, and just converse with them as a group and slowly learn everyone and in the condition they are in. Slowly the walls started to loosen up and we found common interest in the group I was with, I admit I couldn’t learn everyone's name on the first day but it was an enjoyable experience.

When it was time for us to go, the coach told us the people would greatly appreciate it if we were to show up in sports clothes and play with them the next time they see us, and so we agreed.

Day 2:-

Resting and saying goodbye

Dressed in sports clothes and went to the indoor gym seeing everyone warm up, the coach showed me what I should be doing, such as coach them and act as a referee on hand ball (something I never played before) but it was easy to handle the first hour.

We were then split into two teams to play soccer, there was a dispute on who wanted to be the leader on each team, even though most of the older students were with me, the coach showed me how to handle the situation, so then the soccer game commenced and it was a lot of fun, despite my team losing 10-11, we all had fun and we formed a bond which was a pleasant experience, these two days did impact me a lot, and in a way showed me we can all just ignore our differences and just bond and have fun, something we once had in our childhood days.

Playing handball 

Playing soccer

2903 Community Service – Volunteer Project plan

1.    Title of plan:

-    Zayed Higher Organization (ZHO)  – Community service

 2.    Names of group participants:

-          Mohsen Ahmed Alshadadi          --- H00254816

-          Khalid Ahmed AlQubaisi             --- H00247285

-          Ahmed Mohammed Al-Mehairi    --- H00213889

-          Saeed Abdullah Almansoori        --- H00269420

3.    Organization (name) and contact person (supervisor + email):

-    Zayed Higher Organization (ZHO)

- Contact Person:

-   Nabila / 0501934219 – Abdullah / 0559959977

4.    Purpose / what do you wish to accomplish?

-       I would like to get this chance to communicate and try to help the disabled people, it will enhance my communication skills as well as it will make us understand the huge effort that this country is providing to help and educate those people.

5.    Time/ schedule: students will volunteer for how many hours / week? Days?  

-          The schedule will  be 4 hours per week divided into two days for 5 weeks. because of the conflict in the students schedule the volunteering will be as shown below :

Name	Date
Mohsen and Khalid	Wednesday, 12:30 - 2:30       Thursday,  10:30 - 12:30
Saeed and Ahmed	Tuesday, 5:00 – 7:00       Wednesday, 5:00 – 7:00

 

6.    To be successful what need to be done?

-       In the end, students must be able to communicate with the people there and try to give them positive energy. Also make a good impact for them and others. Because they are disable people, its a bit hard for them to deal with the things that they have to accomplish but mostly it is doing something specific like playing games in teams or do other specific activities such as painting.

 

  7.    What are the Benefits to the participants?

-       Volunteers will get a positive experience, enhancing our skills and revealing our talent.  While also participating we will learn new things and look at life from another perspective.

8. Any potential problems you see arising??

-          The only problem we may face is the hardness of dealing with some of the disable people because they need special care, attention and being patient with them.