Project plan
“Future Center volunteering project”
Group members:
Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Shaibani
Abdul Hakeem Al Jaberi
Ahmed Saeed Al Naqbi
Ali Abdulrahman Al Kalbani
Humaid Khamis Al Shamsi
Organization information:
Future Center for special needs
o Contact person: Ms. Anjum Jaffer (Head of Education)
§ Tel: +971 2 5533506
Time / Schedule:
Our group will volunteer for 5 weeks in the center starting from 14th April, 3 hours per week divided into two days. The schedule will help us to end up with 15 hours of volunteering, but we may add more hours after week 1.
Target audience:
Mental disability, Autism spectrum disorder, multiple disability, Down syndrome, physical disability and speech disorder students. Students are from different ages and nationalities.
Activities our project will involve:
Sport classes.
IT skills classes.
Art classes.
Outside trips (if it possible).
Afternoon activities (football or basketball).
Aims of the project:
This project has many purposes and outcomes for both of volunteers and target audience. Us volunteers, we are going to gain experience and background about education volunteering work.
We will learn more about disabilities and how to treat people with disabilities and disorders, especially that we will learn by doing and dealing with them.
This project is a part of this course, by doing it on the best way we will pass this course with the best outcomes.
Planning and preparing is one of the most important purposes of this project, we will improve our planning skills.
Try to help the target audience and people in the future center as much as we can during our volunteering time.
Come up with new ideas to improve the center services and help the managers with some future possible plans.
Benefits of project on target audience:
The philosophy of the center says “Individuals with disabilities have the right to appropriate education and intervention. They are to be accorded every opportunity for growth and development”. We are dealing with disability people and they have special needs and we should know what they need from us, we have to make sure from everything before we meet them. Students there are so sensitive and some actions that we see regular may have a negative reflect on them. For this purpose, the best way to get ready is to think about their needs and put them in levels:
a) Level one needs
Understanding: Students will feel more comfortable if they find someone who understands them, and by this way the education process will be easy on both of us.
Time – Patient: We should be patient and give the students time, and we always have to remember that we are dealing with disability students.
Support: The purpose of the project is to help these students, and they need moral support more than any other kind of supports.
b) Level two needs:
Sympathy: To support disability students and help them to improve their skills to involve in the society we have to show them kindness and love.
Listen-notice: If they feel comfortable they will try to say their thoughts and ideas and we should listen. Sometimes actions say more than words, so noticing is not less importance than listening.
c) Level three needs:
Opportunity: Disability students need an opportunity to show people around them how good they are and they are not on the same situation anymore, we have to give them opportunities.
Motivation: they may not success from the first opportunity; they need motivation to try again and again and keep improving and learning.
b) Level four needs:
Confidence: Students will gain confidence and believing in themselves by time and after getting their needs from the past levels.
Acceptance: After getting their previous needs, students will have to get the acceptance from the society and people to live naturally.
Challenges:
We are going to face many challenges and we are going to pass them. Some of these challenges are:
- The acceptance of the students.
- We are not allowed to take photos or videos without permission, and by this way our blog reports are going to be weak.
- The center strict rules (for instance, no phones are allowed during the volunteering hours .. etc)
These challenges will be passed easily and we are going to achieve our target and we will end up with a great experience and project at the end of the course.
