Hamdah Bassim Sami

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Higher Colleges of Technology Ras Al Khaimah Colleges

Reflective writing
Community Service Learning LSH 2903

Done by: Hamdah Bassim H00235028

Section: AB4-H01 For: Ms. Abeer Al Rasbi

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Reflection of myself: I am a kind of person whom you can say is a quit type. But deep inside me, I am still a baby innocent of what is there that surround me but not too nave of what is happening in this world. I can be a real lady, a woman anyone could easily approach and can give the kindest heart to everybody even when they are already mean to me but never crashed my feelings because I can also be your worst enemy. As I grow up in every aspect of my life, I have learned a lot. Not just from what I have learned from school or from my experiences but also from what my eyes have seen around me. Every individual has their own values or importance not just only to ourselves but also to the society and to this country. Although we do not realize these values until we see the reality in this world. Before, I only know my values as being a student to be responsible for everything that my studies is concerned; as a daughter and a sister to my siblings to give respect to my parents and to guide younger siblings as they grow up and most of all as a Muslim, to do as to what Allah had teaches us through His messenger. I never widened my view of the world for I was thinking that there are specific people out there who would take care about the problems of the world until one day, when we have an educational tour and I have seen with my naked eyes those I have recent to see before. That as a real citizen of this country and as a Muslim, my value should not be just of what my eyes could reach but I have to see beyond of what I can already see. I went through an amazing educational tour with my classmates in this Couse which is community service where we volunteered to do some activities, this experience made me gain some good lessons in life like appreciating life and humanity better, and made a great impact to myself like gave me the power to challenge the weakness that I may face with myself, the philosophies that I forgot about, my mind, my ideas, the way of thinking and even the concept of life, and added more to my self-confidence, another thing it also raised of my willingness to serve my community and the people around me (family, friends, society and even strangers), and it also have changed me to a better person. this experience motivated me to volunteer more and help others because there is nothing more pleasing than seeing others smile to what have you done for them. I challenged every small piece of myself because I have seen some stereotypes in peoples attitudes which made me realize that people need to be aware of a lot of things before judging or acting against others. On other hand, these experiences have changed and will change my life, attitude and personal life into a better way and I can tell that my future is going to be full of success and joy because I will dedicate my life for helping others and make sure that I raise awareness among my community.
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Reflection of the experience: Our plan was to start educating children more about the environment and tell them what are the bad effect that can destroy the nature, the earth and of course the human beings, also explaining how to protect our universe from these bad, dangerous pollution, also we planned to volunteer and go to the beach for cleaning to help the workers and of course to keep our community clean and suitable to live in. furthermore, we planned to visit some workers at the hospital to comfort them by asking about them and giving them gifts. Moreover, we have chosen two schools one is for girls and the other for boys to go and do some activates to help them be aware of the consciousness of having a dirty community to the human being living and working on it, so we prepared for them a short movies shows the daily life of the workers who wake up before dune to prepare themselves for their work which starts at 5:00 in the morning till 1:00 in the afternoon, so that they know what is this worker goes through, after showing them the short movie we started to ask them about it and about their feelings and I can tell that they were touched by the movie because the life that the workers are really hard, then we gave them some advises about how to be kind and gentle with them because at the end of the day they are human beings and they have feelings. We connected them with the environment because by not throwing dirties and garages in the streets or anywhere else we are protecting the environment and making the work of the workers so much easier. After that we talked about the environment and what does it mean and what the causes are of destroying the environment (air, water, soil), the beauty of the nature and the human beings health by showing them pictures through power point slides, and at the end of the slides show we talked about how to protect our environment and what are the ways to avoid the dangerous elements of destroying the nature. According to that we divided the class into groups and distributed a puzzle, the puzzle is about a picture that shows a different attitudes (right or wrong) and we told the groups to decided whether it is right or wrong. And then we brought small flowers with us so that the students share an activity and make them feel that they are part of making the earth a better place. At the end we asked them for any questions and if they enjoyed their time with us and they were so helpful and enjoyed their time, then we distributed a gifts to all for them. After a week, we went to Saqer hospital to visit some workers who they are sick and have some injuries from their nature of work; we visited six patients and asked them about their health and what happened to them, and we gave them some gifts to cheer them up and see their smiles because at the end they are human beings with feelings and heart and we must treat them better. One more thing we planned to do but unfortunately we couldnt because of lack of time which was cleaning the beach.
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Through this experience we faced a moment of success and happiness, we succeed in sending our massage to the students because we saw that in their reactions and how they were happy and sharing their ideas and thoughts, and we faced a lot of happiness, we were so glad when we saw the smiles we draw in peoples faces when we visited the workers at the hospital and the students, I will never ever forget their smiles and it will always bring joy to my heart and will encourage me for more because the feeling that I felt is great. To my point of view, this issue is dangerous and needs more effort from the people in the community and the Government as well, not only in my community the whole world needs to make a big step to keep this universe clean, balanced and out of danger, also people have to start to think more about the worker whom they are working to help us have a fresh environment. If I were in charge of this issue will make a lot of changes in law to protect our universe and community and will make a regular awareness throw the media, I will make sure that people respect others and never underestimates the works in the streets or anywhere else, because we are equal when it comes to humanity. I have learned a lot of things from the community we are living in and I have noticed the lack of the awareness in peoples attitude and it needs to be changed for good. Reflection for the future: During our educational service experience I have seen clearly everything that none of which I see any underlying or overarching issues that affected the problem. First, it is so clear that those who are working on the streets only wanted to help clean the environment while we, the citizens are polluting it. We went to educate the children so that they would know that the act of littering is one way of polluting the environment. We have aimed to educate the children so that in the future they will know how to help and protect the environment to create a well natured citizen and a healthy environment to live in.

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