The Department of Social Services in Sharjah concluded; The activities of the Fifth Harvest Camp, which was launched under the slogan "We Volunteer for Sharjah". The camp activities were held in nine camps across the Emirate of Sharjah, targeting children to do volunteer work. Fayza Khabab, director of the department's volunteering center, revealed: The fifth edition of Al-Hassad volunteer camp showed record numbers, as about 432 volunteers were recruited from children, while the number of volunteer leaders reached about 84 adult volunteers, bringing the total number of participants from young and old volunteers to 516 volunteers, an increase of 32% compared to The number of volunteer participants in Hassad IV Camp, which reached 392 participants, both young and old. The number of volunteer hours completed by the volunteer children reached about 6425 hours, while the adult volunteers completed about 2416 volunteer hours, bringing the total number of volunteer hours for the fifth edition of the harvest camp to 8841 volunteer hours, an increase of 48% compared to the number of hours during the fourth camp when the number reached Its hours are about 5972 hours. 7 volunteer opportunities to bring joy and pleasure .. Khabab reported; The camp included a number of volunteer programs and opportunities that varied between humanitarian, social, educational and rehabilitation programs, in order to enable children to develop their skills and encourage them to commit to volunteer work, noting that seven volunteer opportunities have been implemented in line with the initiatives and commitments of the community department in the area of responsibility Societal towards society, as these activities were represented in a number of volunteer opportunities. Two of the opportunities were directed to the category of workers, where the first was to present them with "gifts" consisting of some daily needs with the aim of bringing happiness and pleasure to them The other opportunities are to "quench your thirst" by distributing various types of cold drinks to workers as a form of community solidarity. In addition to the other activities represented in "visiting patients in hospitals" as well as the opportunity for "voluntary fulfillment" to visit and sit with elderly people in the shelters or in the department's originality clubs or the elderly residing alone, in addition to the volunteer opportunity "Musanada" to help employees in business Administrative; In addition to the volunteer opportunity "Himma" to clean the beach and protect the environment; In addition to the volunteer opportunity "Masidna" to clean and arrange mosques in residential neighborhoods. Note that the "Hassad" volunteer camp is one of the most prominent activities that the department is keen to organize through a package of various programs for school students from the age groups 6-12 years, as the department is led by His Excellency Afaf Al-Marri; The volunteer activity pays most of its attention based on its societal responsibility and its concern for various social and age groups, especially children, as the camp aims to promote positive values in the hearts of young people because of this benign repercussions on their behaviors and interests from a young age.
