LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercises #3 / #4 / #5 - Due 28 April!

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #3 - ALL Due 28 April!

Week 4

Looking at volunteering in different spheres of society.

During the summer of 2012 the Olympic Games were held in London. David Moorcroft is a former athlete. At one point he held the world record for the 5,000 metres. David can be heard discussing the importance of volunteering the Olympic Games.

Zoe Hall is a lady who was one of the volunteers at the Games. She talks about the event and how important it was at the time as well as how much it has inspired her to continue working as a volunteer.

Follow this link:

http://www.ageuk.com/the-wireless/the-wireless-player-page/?feature=5aa8601b-0730-48b1-9b50-16ca792eeba7

Listen again and see if you can work out the answers to these questions about the interview:

1.                  How old were the Games volunteers? ______________________________________________

2.                  During the Games, the volunteers had a special title. What was this special title? ______________________________________________

3.                  Complete this quote from David… “… for a moment in time volunteering had a _________________________________________ and an _________________________________________ that they fully _________________________________________ but don’t always get.”

4.                  David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? ______________________________________________

5.                  Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located? ______________________________________________

6.                  How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? ______________________________________________

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.       ______________________________________________

b.      ______________________________________________

c.       ______________________________________________

d.      ______________________________________________

8.                  Why does David feel that volunteering in the community is so important?

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LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #4

This page is also from AGE UK.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/volunteers-week/

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur
2	Samarah Hashmi
3	Oliver Stannard
4	Stanley Parker
5	Camilla Williamson

Look again at these people and their jobs. What can you say about volunteering from the information in your chart?

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– Exercise #5

Have a look at this page on the internet: http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/browse/sectors/education.html

This page has some ideas about how people can volunteer through education projects.

Once you have read through the pages, you need to work in groups of 4 or 5.

In your groups, come up with a project which you think can be advanced through an educational setting. There are no restrictions, but your idea should be innovative and should aim at adding real value to the people you are trying to help.

As you are working through your project, one of you should be putting together a short presentation (Powerpoint, etc) to explain to the rest of the group what you are trying to achieve.

You should aim to cover the following points, at least.

1.                  What are the aims/ goals & benefits of the project

2.                  Who are the target audience, and why?

3.                  What activities would your project involve?

4.                  Who would be volunteering? Why?

5.                  What are the benefits your project could bring to the target audience?

6.                  How would you look into launching your project with reference to the relevant authorities in the UAE and in the country you have targeted?

7.                  What problems do you think you might come across and how would you try to get around them?

You should aim at one or two of your group making a 4-6 minute presentation to the rest of the group explaining your findings.