SEEDS - Volunteering for Iceland

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...

SEEDS VC 106. Virtual Camp Environmentally Aware - Learn from Home

26.03.2021

Our latest camp - SEEDS 106 Virtual Camp Environmentally Aware Learn from Home - hosted participants from Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Serbia and Slovakia, with the leaders from Poland, Slovenia, Estonia and Slovakia based in Iceland! To break the ice we described ourselves with the objects...

SEEDS 005. Environment & Photography - March - part II

24.03.2021

The days in Iceland are getting brighter and we don't waste any minute of the precious sunlight. We keep improving our photography skills and on Saturday we spent a full afternoon trash hunting around the geothermal beach. Some of us even dared to swim in the cold ocean! We were rewarded with...

Volcano Excursion

22.03.2021

Last Friday, after feeling earthquakes for more than three weeks, finally the volcano in Geldingadalur valley to the south of Fagradalsfjall, erupted. Fagradalsfjall is a shield volcano and tuya with multiple prominences located on the Reykjanes Peninsula, around 50 km from Reykjavík....

SEEDS 005. Environment & Photography - March

20.03.2021

Our new Environment & Photography Camp started in the best possible way! We immediately created a beautiful connection within the group, getting to know each other through icebreaker games and sharing our knowledge and interest for environmental and photography issues. We practiced using...