-Zayed Higher Organization( groupe #2)

-Week #5

The printing and sports sections

On 10^th of Oct were my fifth and the last observing visiting day to the workshops I chose to go to two places first I visit the printing workshop then I went to the sport section. In the printing workshop there are many things for the students to do such as cutting the papers, using different printing machines and create the final looks for different things that could be ordered from outside places such as logos or procures. They have a list of rules that the students should be reminded about them daily for their safety because some of the tools there could heart them.

Then I moved with them to the sport section which they like most, because there they start playing with each other basketball with their kind teacher. 

-Zayed Higher Organization( groupe #2) 

 -Week #4

The weaving workshop

On 3^rd of Oct was my fourth visit to the ZHO and I chose to be in the Weaving workshop. In that workshop there are two teachers and 9 students who are autism and Down syndrome, and some of them need more care and safer place than others. Because of that the divided in groups so the ones who can work with the weaving tool in good way without hearting themselves were 3 students and they who work on weaving. Then there were 4 students who need more care and its difficult for them to use the weaving tools so they working on covering the done products. The sever disable students were 2 and they worked on tiding up the covered products only, for their safety. When I asked the teacher he told me that they most of the time working on weaving bracelets with different shapes and colors and then the sell them in the expiations. On that day they were working on creating bracelets with the UAE flag colors to cover an order of 1000 bracelets.

That day was a short working day for them because it was the flag day and they all gathering on the yard for celebrating the flag day.

-Zayed Higher Organization( groupe #2)

-Week #3

The Electronics workshop

On 27^th of Oct was my third visit to the ZHO and I chose to be in the Electronics workshop with Mr. Thomas. That section is for working, creating and building electronic things which really surprise me, to see that they can do such things with details and hard working. So some of them do small electronic cards that we need inside the electronic devices which without them the devices will be useless. Moreover other work on bigger thing such as robots, I saw Khalid while he was programing his own robot that he create and build it, and Khalid was one of the best students in that workshop. 

 

-Zayed Higher Organization( groupe #2) 

-Week #2

In 20^th of Oct was the second visit to ZOH and that day started at 8:00 am and finished at 1:00 Pm. I decided to enter two workshops, and they were the Academic section ( 8:00 am – 10:30 am) and carpentry workshop ( 11:00 am- 1:00 Pm ).

                In Academy section there were 15 students with one teacher. The students were have different special needs and they were from different age ranges some are much older than others. The similarity that gathered them in that section was they all of them had already done with the basic workshops and they all evaluated as advance students than the others who still in the workshops. In that section the only one teacher is teaching them many different subjects (Math, Science, Arabic, Social studies and Religion) and the curriculum that they use is the same of the one that we used in our school. They learn the basic things such as shapes, simple math problem, and reading and writing, for me I helped one of the students in writing. I surprised when I sat and observe them while they were discussing with their teacher about different topics I found that they know deeper than what I thought before.

                After the break which was from 10:30 am to 11:00 am I attend carprt workshop. This workshop is presented by Mr. Mohammed Al Hammadi and there they learn how to create different useful objects from wood weekly, so for each week they learn how to create one thing. In that day they were working on create a presenting plate, and the students were 5 so each two were working as pairs and the fifth one worked with the teacher. They were collaborating with each other very well so one of them was catching the object and the other one using the machine. They have many resources in that room such as different machines measurement tools that make the work easier and more professional. That day was ended up with finishing one plate.

-Zayed Higher Organization( groupe #2) 

-Week #1

13 Oct 2015 was first volunteering day for my group in ZHO. Ms Maitha Almuhairi took us round special needs departments which include 11 departments (Carpentry, blacksmithing, electricity and so on). Each one of us choose department to stay on it even we will exchange departments weekly. That was absolutely new experience in our life.

They gave us the choice to choose which workshop to be in in that day. For me I chose to enter the electricity workshop, which includes 6 special need students and their teacher Mr. Muntaser. In that workshop the student did many things related to the electricity some more complex than others, such as working on electricity safety and creating electrical circles to match the electricity to any device, and others are working on preparing wires ( cut and reuse them ). In that section one student called Saleh AL Marri  who looks like that he is the most expert student between them, because he was working on the hardest thing which is electricity safety and he was helping others in their works.  I sat and work with one of those who were cutting and reusing wires, because he looks like that he need help and then I found that he is a new student there.