SEEDS - Volunteering for Iceland

SEEDS VC 105. Virtual Camp Environmentally Aware - Learn from Home

12.03.2021

Even though it's hard to work on the computer for a long time, we cannot appreciate enough how many special and beautiful people we got to meet during our virtual camps! Our latest camp - SEEDS 105 Virtual Camp Environmentally Aware Learn from Home - hosted participants...

SEEDS VC 104. Virtual Camp Environmentally Aware - Learn from Home

03.03.2021

While waiting for the end of the winter we stayed warm with a new edition of our virtual camp in the end of February: SEEDS VC 104. Virtual Camp Environmentally Aware - Learn from Home. Many participants from all over the world joined our discussions for superb moments of exchange and conviviality. This...

My volunteering experience - Marianna Šadibolová

24.02.2021

TESTIMONY, Marianna Šadibolová, February 2021 The project with SEEDS Iceland lasted for six incredible months that was full of experiences, challenges, great times surrounded by amazing people and breathtaking nature. It's difficult to find the right words to...

SEEDS 002. Environment & Photography - January

18.02.2021

The first camp of 2021 took place from 19th to 28th of January in Reykjavík. The group of volunteers connected through cooking together, sharing food (mostly vegan dishes) from many different places, through strategies and game plan, playing music and singing songs, photography and enjoying...

SEEDS VC 102. Virtual Camp Environmentally Aware - Learn from home

04.02.2021

At the end of January we renewed the virtual camp experience in our camp SEEDS 102 Environmentally Aware - Learn from Home. We were able to receive some sun from the other hemisphere here in Iceland! We were lucky to have participants from Colombia, Greece, Germany and Turkey. This...

My volunteering experience - Calina Porto

25.01.2021

I am Calina and my experience with SEEDS started when I was 23 years old and when I was already living in Portugal. But you might be thinking: Why Iceland? Well, I usually say that I did not choose Iceland. Iceland chose me. Everything started...

SEEDS 099. Environment & Photography - New Year Reykjavík

13.01.2021

During our camp SEEDS 099, the last of the year 2020, the long-term and short-term volunteers from Estonia, Italy, France and the Netherlands had the chance to spend New Year's Eve in Reykjavík. Like in every winter camp, the participants developed their art and photography skills...

SEEDS VC 108. Virtual Camp Environmentally Aware - Learn from home

15.12.2020

Our volunteers in the virtual camp SEEDS 108 shared their ideas and tips how to make their own Christmas decorations from stuff you usually have at home. Decorations can be made for example from egg boxes, magazines, oranges, cardboard, gingerbread, pine cones, twigs and many other natural or recycled...

My volunteering experience - Valeria Basciu

08.12.2020

My name is Valeria and I was born in a small town in Sardinia, Italy. At the moment I am in Iceland for an environment-related volunteer experience with SEEDS Iceland, thanks to the ESC project. I arrived in the Land of Fire and Ice on July 3, when it never got dark, and my project will end on...

SEEDS 084. The Highlands of Iceland - The Famous Kjölur Road (2/2)

22.11.2020

One of the last outdoors camp for this year took place in the Highlands, Kerlingarfjöll. This time the participants were only long-term volunteers. Amongst other things we were working on making a new viewpoint next to a waterfall, bordering parking lots, painting huts,...