Volunteering

First, What is Volunteering? in my own words of course.
Doing helpful things without expecting a reward. :D

Last summer i had the chance to volunteer at SKMC (Sheikh Khalifa Medical City).

I don't know why, but i love this place so much <3

I learned a lot from this Amazing experience, and i would like to share some of it with you guys.

The Beginning

At first i was too nervous to volunteer because im not used to do these kind of things, actually i wasn't even used to do anything but stay at home 24/7 playing PS3, social networking and watching TV shows "Legally".

This was basically me :P

After a while my family convinced me to do it, plus i was a bit bored of staying at home. I wanted to do something new, so my sister helped me applying for it.

So, i had to do an interview.I went and met "Gabriela Hirculescu" the head of the volunteering office in SKMC,before the interview I was sweating like crazy, because it was my first time doing an interview and also because my social skills were 0.

Thankfully i "passed" the interview somehow!, and I went to the orientation the next day which was done by "Foad" (who is one of my best friends now<3) i thought he was working there but i found out he was "just" a volunteer :P.

Gabby and Foad <3

At first, i was assigned to go to clinics -_-! and confirm appointments, lets just say i didn't like that place a lot.

Since i didn't like clinics, i asked to change my place, and that's what happened, i went to the Housing department.

After like 3 weeks they had to change there place, so things changed  and it started to be difficult for me to stay there, so I asked for a change again :$.

This is the part where Volunteering became sooo entertaining to me. i Started going to ADRC ( Abu Dhabi Rehabilitation Center). It was soo great interacting with the patients.

Their smile just makes you feel like you've done something huge in there life, which personally makes me feel like i have achieved a huge goal in my life.

I know its a new pic, but you get the idea :D

Ramadan

What is Ramadan?
its a month, in which Muslims fast from sunrise till sunset.

We, The volunteers at SKMC had to do some decorations for this month and hang them up in patients rooms. It was tiring but fun at the same time, we did our best to finish them before the month ends :P

The Decoration

U can see whats happening !

Surprisingly this is Mahboob doing actual work ! :D

Also, we had some "iftar party" < well it wasnt actually a party, but you get the idea :P, many volunteers attended even non-Muslims, it felt amazingly great.

Sorry guys, this is the best pic i found :P

After Ramadan comes a day which Muslims Celebrate in Called Eid. We went and distributed some gifts for the patients. We had so much fun.

Volunteers and one of  the patients <3

The gifts we were distributing, and yes that was real money :P

And This was a brief of what we as volunteers do at SKMC.


I have met so many people at SKMC and im proud to call them my friends.

Many Faces, Many Reasons, One Heart <3

In the end, I really enjoyed Volunteering at SKMC and i seriously recommend everyone to volunteer there or anywhere at least once in their life.