SEEDS Iceland

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 object. . .

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. The n. . .

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. . .

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 from Colombia, Sur. . .

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 convivialit. . .

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 describe it so let's give. . .

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 memor. . .

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 virt. . .

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 because I was looking for a v. . .

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 and took p. . .

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 rec. . .

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 o. . .

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, gath. . .

SEEDS VC 106. Environmentally Aware

16.11.2020 Due to the new wave of COVID-19 multiple countries are closing borders again, experiencing yet another lock-down. For many it is impossible to travel and volunteer in Iceland, but with the virtual camps it is still manageable to meet new people from all over the world, to learn new. . .

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