SEEDS - Volunteering for Iceland

SEEDS 017. The Highlands North of Vatnajökull Glacier

22.06.2021

Möðrudalur - the Highest located farm in Iceland 02.06.2021 to 15.06.2021 After a wonderful travel day from Reykjavik to the North we arrived (one hour late) for dinner at the Möðrudalur on 2 June. It is like entering an oasis after having driven through the rugged...

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

06.05.2021

The first online camp of the icelandic summer took place last week, hosting participants and volunteers from Vietnam, Russia, Egypt, Colombia, Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, Portugal, Poland and Hungary. After getting to know each other better through icebreakers, we learnt about deforestation,...

SEEDS 008. Environment & Photography - April

30.04.2021

From 13th to 22nd of April we had another environmentally aware and photography camp. We were six volunteers from Estonia, France, Germany and Portugal (one of them from the Azores islands). During the camp we had different presentations and workshops. We were talking for example about climate justice...

SEEDS and Sea Shepherd Iceland - coastal cleanup at Grótta

26.04.2021

Last Saturday SEEDS and Sea Shepherd Iceland organised a coastal cleanup at Grótta, near the lighthouse, a popular recreational area in Seltjarnarnes. About 30 people (SEEDS volunteers, Sea Shepherds, locals and foreigners) enjoyed the mild spring weather while picking plastic from in between...

SEEDS VC 107. Virtual Camp Environmentally Aware - Learn from Home

21.04.2021

April arrived, and what better way to start a month than with a virtual camp? SEEDS 107 Virtual Camp “Environmentally Aware - Learn from Home” hosted participants all the way from Colombia , Ireland , Portugal , Italy and Vietnam ! Starting with some ice-breaking during the first...

SEEDS 008. Environment & Photography - April

20.04.2021

At the moment four our SEEDS 008. Environment & Photography camp is going on with an awesome group of volunteers, from Estonia, France, Germany, Portugal, or to be more specific, from Azores, (and Spain). This weekend was very active - two excursions and a hike to see the volcano. And...

SEEDS 007. Environment & Photography - Easter in Reykjavík

15.04.2021

In the beginning of April the new Environmental and Photography camp SEEDS 007 - Easter in Reykjavík started, hosting participants from France, Germany, the UK with SEEDS volunteers from Estonia, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary. Based in a cosy wooden house hidden in the Botanical Garden...

Podcast episode: Language and perception

08.04.2021

Does the way we speak shape the way we think? In the third episode of our podcast "Sprouts og Spíra" Annie Heine is talking to two other long-term volunteers how language influences our being. Inspired by the book “Sprache und Sein” (Language and Being) by the author Kübra...

My volunteering experience - testimony from Hella Wagner, April 2021

07.04.2021

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone: such a cliché, yet it holds true. I’m Hella and I wandered quite far from mine when I decided to become a volunteer on Iceland, of all places. The opportunity found me at the best moment possible: fresh out of university, looking for my place...

Cleanup at volcano sites at Geldingadalur

31.03.2021

On March 30 eight SEEDS long-term volunteers from seven countries picked up trash at the volcano sites at Geldingadalur. Since the Geldingadalsgos eruption on 19 March, thousands of people have hiked there to see the active volcano and unfortunately some did not leave...