Her Highness Shaikha Jameela Bint Mohammed Al Qasimmi, vice president of Sharjah Family Supreme Council & General Director of SCHS, highly appreciated the project to reduce the noise, which was adapted by SCHS's Environmental Association. The project was prepared by Mrs. Sahar Mohammed Talgi, the teacher of athletics at Al Amal Kindergarten & School for the Deaf, under the supervision of Mrs. Afaf Haridi, head of the SCHS's School for the Intellectually Disabled. She pointed out that the project will be useful for the whole community. Therefore, it should take a good amount of coverage in the mass media.
Despite the enormous advantages of modern life, it has few disadvantages that can become habitual with time. In most of the cases, people don't pay attention to it or its hazards on their health. Noise can be very dangerous to our health and ears.
SCHS's Environmental Association has a great concern of the challenges that face our community such as noise, which has become a real threat on all of us. Therefore, a project to reduce noise was adopted by the association. It focuses on big cities and industrial areas because of the large number of high tech machinery that are used their.
SCHS's Environmental Association considers this project is part of its main objectives. Therefore, it has decided to carry on with the project with precision. This project is considered the first of its kind to be implemented in United Arab Emirates.
The association is trying to reduce deafness by carrying on with this project. In addition, the project will introduce the public to this disability. And as a result, deaf people will face less problems and neglect from the society, which SCHS is trying its best to do.
The main purpose of this project is to reduce noise via explaining the hazards of loud sounds on the ear. Noise can cause Otitis. It also has negative effects on the physical, psychological, and social health in general. As a result, our performance in daily life will be affected.
This project is significant because SCHS has a great concern of the local community. Reducing noise will be useful for all the people in United Arab Emirates. Therefore, SCHS is focusing on the hazards of noise on normal people. A device called 'news level detector' is used to measure the intensity of sound in addition to the International Day to Resist Noise.
Noise has many negative effects such as losing concentration in reasoning process, headache, depression, and nervousness. In the long run, this may lead to deafness. The sponsors of this project are Al Amal Kindergarten & School for the Deaf, Sharjah Municipality, and Sharjah Directorate of Town Planning & Survey. The beneficiaries are all United Arab Emirates schools.
As a first step of the project, the association borrowed 'news level detector' device from Sharjah Directorate of Town Planning & Survey in order to measure the amount of noise in various locations at Sharjah. The results were the following: in Rola Street 95 Decibel, the industrial zone 110 Decibel, Al Qasba 75 to 80 Decibel, Emirates Road & the Airport 90 to 110 Decibel, and in closed sports hall filled with fans 95 to 110 Decibels. The normal average for a human being should be 75 to 80 Decibels. There is a great danger on the ear if it was exposed to this amount of noise daily for more than two hours.
The project gives some recommendations to reduce noise such as celebrating the International Day to Resist Noise on 14th, April, turning off all the machinery for one minute from 12: 15 PM to 12: 16 in order to listen to the sounds of nature, doing examination for our ears on regular basis, avoiding high populated areas, avoid listening to high volume tape recorders, and forbidding children from playing with toys that run on batteries because it have destructive effect on their hearing capabilities.
In addition, people should live in more quiet places, where there is not much of noise or stimulation. Children should stay away from loud machinery. People should reduce the use of electrical devices such as blenders and screwdrivers. A sound proof window screens should be installed in houses that are located next to an industrial zone.