Self Reflection

My Self Reflection

I volunteered with TAKATOF, one of the biggest organizations in UAE for volunteering; with TAKATOF I did two events completing the sixteen hour limit for our course.

The first event we’ve done was the city guard application, where we delivered brochures for the visitors and explain to them how to get the application and using it, in this event I learned a lot of things like I didn’t know about this application before doing the event, I have learned that this application will help our community a lot, where it will make us solve incidents a lot more faster by using it.

The second event was the Malaria exhibition, where our job is to inform the visitors about the malaria disease, giving them a tour around the exhibition, where they can see the photos that were taken by the worldwide photographer Adam Nadel.

But it wasn’t all perfect we faced a lot of problems in our way, like the supervisors of TAKATOF being late in the first day of our volunteer, not knowing the right information when we help the visitors, but making a mistake made me learn from them, or what is the point of learning if we can’t experience faults or walls that hinder us from success.

In these two events I learned a lot of things, like the city guard application where the government of Abu Dhabi is making the people pitch in and help them by reporting incidents, and in the second event where we try to aware people about the Malaria disease, it made me think that I’m doing something small yet good for my country and people for that matter, the feeling of helping people was one of a kind, that it made me change my view for life, where it taught me that there are people ready to help other people for nothing back except their smile and happiness.