An analytical View from the Perspective of Method Community Organization of the Reality  of Women's Volunteer Work in the Emirate of Ajman in the U.A.E

Walaa  Elsayed

doi:10.35516/hum.v49i1.1667

Authors

Walaa Elsayed Ajman University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v49i1.1667

Keywords:

Community Organization, Emirati Women, Volunteering.

Abstract

The study aims to identify the reality of women's volunteer work in the Emirate of Ajman in the UAE from the perspective of the way the society is organized by identifying the characteristics of volunteers, the nature of volunteer services, the reasons that drive Emirati women to volunteer, conditions, forms of volunteering, and the obstacles for women to practice volunteer and exit with recommendations that contribute to raising the level of a female volunteer in the Emirate of Ajman. The study used the descriptive survey method using the case study for 90 volunteers in charitable societies in the Emirate of Ajman. The important results of the study are that the largest age group of volunteers was between the ages of 30-40, and they obtained Highly qualified and most of their volunteer services were in the local area, and the most motivating reasons for their volunteer was their high confidence in their abilities to help, and the most important conditions for their volunteering is the availability of sufficient time with a measure of good health to do the required effort, and the most their favorite forms of volunteer are online volunteering. The important difficulty from their point of view is the lack of awareness of the importance of volunteering for a large number of girls of the current generation. The important recommendations of the study are the need to work on establishing a center for voluntary rehabilitation. It specializes in raizing their level of performance to solve the problems their societies

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