Friday, December 9, 2011

تطوع في كرسي متحرك مع جمعية الحراك


السلام عليكم ورحمة الله عليكم،
أولاً، نريد البدء بالقول بأننا نأمل بأن الجميع يجد نهاية العطلة هذه رائعة!

لدينا غداً يوم السبت 10/12/2011 حدث نعتقد بأنك قد ترغب في حضوره، فهو شيء لا تراه كل يوم، ولا تتيح لك هذه الفرصة دائماً، حدث يتعلق عن الكراسي المتحركة للمعاقين!


المركز البحريني للحراك الدولي في مدينة عيسى يدعوكم جميعاً للحضور غداً لأجل الحدث. حيث سيتم إعطاء نبذة عن المركز، ومناقشة مشروعهم الجديد وفعاليات أخرى. ثم سوف تطبق تدريب عملي لجميع المتطوعين "كيفية استخدام الكرسي المتحرك!"

المركز يعطيك فرصة لمعرفة كيفية استخدام الكرسي وكيف يكون هذا في المجتمع البحريني. لهذا السبب بعد الحصول على التدريب على الكرسي المتحرك جميع المشاركين سيتوجهون إلى مجمع سيتي سنتر في الكرسي المتحرك! حيث سنتناول الغداء هناك ومن ثم نعود إلى المركز في العصر حوالي 4-4:30

وهنا (البرنامج) الجدول. هو تقريبي، فإنه قد يكون عرضة للتغير أو التعديل.
الوقت
البرنامج
8:30
التعاوف ونبذة عن المركز
9:00
أهداف المشروع ولماذا

شرح الإستمارة
10:00
استراحة
10:30
تدريب عملي على الكراسي
11:30
استراحة وصلاة
2:00
التوجه إلى مجمع السيتي سنتر

الغداء
4-4:30
العودة إلى المركز
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Wheelchairs!


Good afternoon everyone,
First of all we hope everyone is having a great weekend!

We have an event tomorrow 10/12/2011 that we think you might like, it involves wheelchairs!

Let’s see, Bahrain Mobility International (Isa Town), would like to invite all of you to attend their event tomorrow, where they will talk about their center and discuss a project coming up, then they will teach all of the volunteers how to “use a wheelchair!”

The center would like you to experience how it’s like to have a disability; they want you to see how it’s like in Bahrain. That’s why after you get the training on the wheelchair; everyone will head to City Center in their wheel chair! Where everyone will have lunch there and then we will all be back in the center at about 4-4:30.

Here is the schedule! Which is an approximate schedule, it may be subject to change.
Time
Program
Introductions and about the center.
08:30
The upcoming events and projects and why
09:00
Explaining the form

Rest
10:00
Practical training on the wheelchairs
10:30
Rest and Prayer
11:30
Head to City Center
02:00
Lunch

Back to Bahrain Mobility International Center
04:00-04:30

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Dont Forget!

 Dont forget to wear your name tag when you volunteer!
And record every service you do!

If you dont have a file..email us so we could make one for you!
aljasser-youth@hotmail.com


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Attention Volunteers

Hello,
if you will volunteer please lets us know before hand;
because we would like to provide you with a name tag and folder for you to keep records of your volunteer work.
So please inform us ahead of time, so we could provide you with the things you need by the time you volunteer.
email us at (aljasser-youth@hotmail.com)

And please don’t forget to check out our blog, for news, pictures and upcoming events!

Join us in our great mission to volunteer! 


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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Bahrain Cancer Society



We have received an email from Maryam Baslar in association with Bahrain Cancer Society! They need volunteers for this weekend about 15 volunteers of them actually for the Zumba/Cycling Event at Al-Bandar..

There will be a meeting held Thursday December 1st – Al-Bandar 4:30 PM- Meeting with the team/sub team leaders.

Where they will discuss the role and activities of each volunteer and what the volunteer will do during the day. In addition to that, they will have to nominate 3 Team Leaders-to represent the 3 shifts on Friday.

1st shift: 8AM - 1PM
2nd Shift: 1PM - 6PM
3rd Shift: 8PM - 9:30PM

They will nominate 3 Team leaders to represent the 3 shifts!


We will need volunteers first to assign the leaders!

Are you interested! If so please email (maryam.baslar@gmail.com)

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Little Picassos


Monday, November 28, 2011

Volunteer this weekend!


Another Head’s up!
There is a chance to volunteer this weekend Dec 2nd. Volunteers will be required to help with a drawing competition and we require some arab speakers to help out with the orphans that will attend. Here’s the contact number: 3308 7504 (Aneisha). To volunteer you may choose a two hour slot between 10AM-9PM.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Blog Feature

Yaay!
Today we were featured In Bahraini Preneur's blog!
Check it out: here

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Bahrain Mobility International Meeting coming up soon!


Good evening everyone,

First of all I would like to wish you a happy “hijri” new year! Insha’a-allah this year will be a wonderful year for everyone! And Insha’a-allah Al-Jasser volunteers will accomplish many great things in Bahrain.

Secondly I would like to see more volunteers for Bahrain Mobility International’s new Project. I would like to inform you that there will be an informative meeting held this upcoming Monday on the 28th Nov. Mr. Adel Al-Mutawa the chairman of board will be speaking and letting in future volunteers about the project and in addition to that information about upcoming events he would like to host.

The meeting will be held at 5PM-7PM in the center in Isa Town. I have attached along with this post a map for the location of the center.

Now I will give you a brief description about the project. Mr. Adel would like to have a survey to check these following things:
  1. If schools have the right facilities to host a “disabled” person.
  2. If schools need help in improving these facilities.
In addition to that, it’s going to be the 32nd year anniversary for the creation of the center in Bahrain, and they would like to have help in the forming of the event and they need the youth’s ideas!

As well as that, they want to see if the volunteers have any ideas for the center, they want any project a volunteer thinks about and they would like to see that idea come to life and they are more than willing to fund it. They don’t want projects to be only for the center or in it, nor do they want project that involve the “disabled” they want everyone to want to come and take part in it.

Hope to see you there!

Directions: 
First when entering the Isa Town Gate, go on Al Esteglal Highway and keep on going straight, pass the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Info (BH Television), pass the Ministry of Info (Police) and there is where you will see a sigh that directs you to Bahrain Mobility International guide the road and you will find the center!


And please don’t forget to always check out our blog, for news, pictures and upcoming events!

Join us in our great mission to volunteer! 
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Friday, November 25, 2011

The Story of how Al-Jasser was created

Logo Sarah Drew Oct 2011

The story of Al-Jasser told by one of our founders; Shaima Aljeeb.

Al-Jasser started out as a simple idea created by three best friends, who have been together in the YES Program a program that enabled us to study abroad for a year. We were and still are high schoolers. Sarah, Abdulla and I are still great friends, even though we didn’t volunteer in Bahrain prior to our travel that much, I can assure you, we have volunteered a lot last year.

Al-Jasser was just a plan, something we created over Ramadan, while we would chat on Skype and hang out in Caribou Cafe. We created it, because we were somewhat required too, not exactly, more like asked to. Our program said this:

Upon their (alumni) return to their home countries, the students apply their leadership skills in their home countries. In addition, alumni groups have formed and been involved with many community service activities including clothing drives, mentoring younger children and English teaching, immunization drives, and much more.

And one of their goals is:

“To encourage the exchange of ideas, values, and experiences among young people by exposing these young scholars to leadership belief systems, civil society principles, and community service involvement.

Thus, we (Sarah, Abdulla and I) felt obliged to do something, we are the 6th cycle/year alumni, it’s been 6 years of Bahraini International students and no one has done anything? Let us be the beginning.

I have always wanted to volunteer in Bahrain, but never had the chance too, I was sometimes considered too young, or no one can drive me, I wasn’t qualified to, or because my parents told me “Shaima, you have to study! Not volunteer”. The only person who truly encouraged me to volunteer was my older sister Alyaa, she got to volunteer though unlike me, she had the time, and it did benefit her academically, she needed it because it was a graduation requirement, and because she is an occupational therapy major, thus volunteering in hospitals would give her great experience. And me, I was just a kid, who would not benefit from volunteering.

Shaima Presenting in TEDxYouth@Manama
But, during my year abroad, I got the opportunity to volunteer, I had to (because it was a requirement to volunteer for twenty hours). So, I started my year and learned a lot, I got the chance to learn valuable lessons from Americans. Giving my time to a special cause – volunteering was the most rewarding lesson. I was so enthusiastic that I got a reward for volunteering, the Presidential Award, it was great! In U.S, it didn’t matter how old you were, or if you’re just a student, there are opportunities, they even advertise it! They want your help! And that is how I learned the value and importance of volunteerism.

Abdulla receiving the certificate for the Lecture by
  جائزة الشيخ عيسى للتطوع العربي
And I wanted to spread that knowledge upon my return to Bahrain, and two of my great friends shared the same thought. And that is how we created Al-Jasser over summer break. We were “dying” for something to do, somewhere to go, instead of staying at home, or going to the mall, feeling like whatever. We wanted to help people in need, make a difference, use our free time wisely and put it to good use. And we knew it would benefit us, in some many ways! Such as; meeting new people, making positive friendships, having our CV or our College App show our interest in the community and the sense of personal satisfaction. There are so many great benefits to volunteering.

We hope that you join us, perhaps not particularly Al-Jasser, but join us in our mission, become a social entrepreneur, a volunteer, serve your country, benefit yourself, make a change.

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