Actualités
01.08.2007 : SEEDS 10. Sólheimar, Sjálfbært samfélag
After a busy first week in Sólheimar, our third group of volunteers in the village this year has settled into this unique community.
Our 14 volunteers, from the USA, Greece, Germany, Austria, Spain, The Netherlands and the UK, have been working alongside the local people throughout the village.
Some volunteers have had the opportunity to contribute to the whole process of growing organic cucumbers and tomatoes, from planting them to packing them ready to be sold (in bio-degradable containers of course!). Others volunteers have given their energies to the forestry section, helping to plant trees that will be used all over Iceland which may will help to enrich existing green spaces and re-vegetating other vulnerable areas throughout the country.
Next week will see a great international evening and a puppet show with a difference! Lead by the group’s Environmental Messenger, Lara Marx, they will be the first SEEDS volunteers to create an entry for the Beauty and the Beast competition, the competition for groups of volunteers throughout Europe to show that waste can be re-used (and be beautiful). The group here in Sólheimar is currently using the waste from the camp to make great puppets and a show for all the residents on their last night.
The artwork produced by the camp will be presented at a reception on Wednesday August 8th at 19:00 in the coffee house Kaffihúsið Græna kannan, which will be opened by Óskar Jón Helgason, Valgeir F. Backman from the village, as Lara Marx and Letizia Bottoli from SEEDS. Organic snacks and drinks will be served and the reception will feature a performance by the international volunteers. The reception is open to the public.
The artwork will find a new home at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. What used to be local garbage will become international art - alongside artworks from similar projects.
The project is a part of UNESCO’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (www.unesco.org). The project is organised by SEEDS (www.seedsiceland.org), which cooperates with CCIVS, the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service at UNESCO (www.unesco.org/ccivs). This is part of SEEDS' work to use volunteer exchanges to preserve the environment and create peace and mutual understanding.
More information on the campaign can be found on:
http://www.unesco.org/ccivs/New-SiteCCSVI/CcivsOther/esd/ESD2007.htm
On Sólheimar go to http://www.solheimar.is
20.07.2007 : SEEDS 09. In Bíldudalur!!
This time 20 international volunteers will join our project SEEDS 09 in the Icelandic Western Fjords, in Bíldudalur! They arrived today to the town and will stay there for the next 2 weeks!
A very "colorful" group of volunteers, coming from Denmark, Italy, Japan, Korea,Poland, Spain, UK and US; will be busy supporting few different projects in the town and the surrounding areas!
Once again SEEDS works with one of the communities in the Vesturbyggð district and we are very grateful for the welcome given to our volunteers and the diverse type of activities organised for our participants! Same wise we thank all the volunteers and are very glad hosting you, all the best for the 2 weeks in Bíldudalur!
To see pictures of the project, please visit our galleries section and for more information on the town, the area and its surroundings, please visit:
17.07.2007 : SEEDS & Blái herinn - In action in Akranes: 8 Tons collected!!
The group of volunteers participating in our project SEEDS 06 in Akranes joined efforts with the Blue Army, Blái herinn, and cleaned up part of the coastline in the town as one of our first steps of the newly established cooperation between these 2 Icelandic associations!
Yesterday, during the clean-up the coast-line action, we together collected more than 8 tons of waste at the shore.
The collected waste was separated and put in different containers, to be taken to the recycling and metal gathering centers.
We hope to continue developing this actions jointly with Blái herinn and are very glad and proud of the great impact of the joint action!
For more details, please visit our galleries section and see the pictures of the action. More information can be found at:
14.07.2007 : Dozens of volunteers all around Iceland! Thanks!
It is high season right now in Iceland and SEEDS has 60 volunteers all around the country in different projects in Akranes, Kópasker, Raufarhöfn, Patreksfjörður, Tálknafjörður, Viðey, Reykjavík, Bláfjöll, Krísuvík and Grindavík areas....
This summer 2007 we will host more than 300 international volunteers, coming from 31 different countries!! They are giving their time and energy in more than 22 different projects all over the isle!
We bring together volunteers from different nationalities and backgrounds aiming at building up international understanding and therefore encouraging peace while working for an identified need. All parties involved benefit: The individual volunteers, the local hosting communities and Iceland as a whole!
While working in teams tackling certain projects, SEEDS also addresses among them human, social and environmental concerns, promoting intercultural and common learning.
Our projects in Iceland are highly supported by the local hosts and the volunteers participating; additionally we receive strong support for our long term projects from the Youth in Action and Leonardo da Vinci Programmes of the European Commission.
SEEDS wants to thank all those committed individuals that volunteer for us, people that dedicate part of their lives to our cause and that trigger the consequences of our endeavours. Icelandic and foreign volunteers that take aside precious time, from 2 weeks up to one year, to drive forward this initiative and shape the association, to start seeing the fruits and results coming from SEEDS spread, laid out and now growing up!
12.07.2007 : SEEDS 08. Reykjavík - Bláfjöll
One more group of 13 SEEDS volunteers have arrived to the Icelandic capital, Reykjavík, and will be here for the next 2 weeks in the Bláfjöll, Krísuvík and Grindavík areas. The weather has been amazing for the last weeks in the South-west of Iceland and we hope the climate will stays this way, as most of the work our groups do is outdoors!
The aim of the project is to halt the erosion of vegetation and soils and to strengthen the ecosystem of the area by enhancing its natural vegetation. The process of using organic waste materials as fertilizing means, we achieve a double dividend.
Close to 70% of the total population of Iceland lives in this area of the country and the area has suffered of overgrazing and volcanic activity; some areas are stripped entirely of top soil.
Volunteers will basically perform three different types of work: a) Fertilising the slopes in Bláfjöll by yard-waste cover. This is the most important work. b) Monitoring the survival and growth rate of tree plantations of former years in the areas of Krýsuvík and Grindavík. c) Cleaning up litter in the vicinity of caves in the Bláfjöll area.
SEEDS international volunteers will be working hand-on-hand with Icelandic youngsters from the working school, Vinnuskóli.
07.07.2007 : SEEDS 07. Patreksfjörður & Tálknafjörður
A new group of SEEDS' volunteers has arrived to the district of Tálknafjarðarhreppur and the village of Tálknafjörður! This time we have a group of volunteers coming from Belgium, Czech Rep., Germany, Italy and Australia! Their project started today and they will support few projects in the area!
The village, sometimes referred to as Sveinseyri, lies near the head of the Tálknafjörður the fjord, it has around 300 inhabitants and the main sources of income are fishing and farming.
Tálknafjörður differs from the other so-called Western Fjörds in the fact that there is geothermal activity in the fjord and the water is used for heating and in the swimming pool.
Tálknafjörður is located around 400 Km from the Icelandic capital Reykjavík and around 160 Km from Ísafjörður, the biggest town in the Western Fjords.
For more information, please visit the following links:
On Tálknafjörður, go to http://www.talknafjordur.is
On the Western Fjords, go to http://www.westfjords.is
To see pictures of our projects in Tálknafjörður and other locations around Iceland and abroad, please visit our galleries section.
We are very thankful to the community, its inhabitants and all people involved in the project and wish our volunteers a great time there!!
04.07.2007 : SEEDS 06. Akraneskaupstaður - Írskir dagar, Irish Days!
SEEDS' volunteers arrived yesterday to Akranes for one more of our voluntary service workcamps!! We have there a group of 8 volunteers coming from Czech Rep., France, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and the UK!!
The group will work the first days on the preparations of the Írskir dagar (Irish Days) festivities in Akranes and then after the first weekend they will work together with the Environmental and public areas section of the city in different projects improving the camp-site, cleaning up the coastline, maintaining some hiking trails in the area, etc.
We are very glad to be in Akranes for the very first time with one of SEEDS' groups, grateful with the great welcome and hospitality we have been received and hope to work together with the community in the future again!
For more details on:
The township of Akranes, please visit http://www.akranes.is
The Írskir dagar festival, go to http://www.irskirdagar.is
27.06.2007 : SEEDS & VJF - Seminar in Sólheimar
The seminar sponsored by the City of Berlin for the 14 participants in the "Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr" (FÖJ), continues and the German youngsters have now the opportunity to get better knowledge of the Eco-village, working in diverse workshops and areas.
They are right now working on 3 different areas: Landscaping in the Eco-village, different tasks on the green and landscape areas; renovation and maintenance works in some of the buildings; and in two workshops: The forestry department of Ölur or in the vegetable organic-growing greenhouses of Sunna. At Ölur, the forestry, the work will range from taking care and transplanting trees to actual reforestation work in the surrounding area. While in Sunna, the work focuses on growing organically vegetables as harvesting tasks.
Of course there are also some free time activities and opportunities to discover the area, in the picture you can see the group, guided by the local "Siggi", heading to Mount Hestfjall (317 m), which rises gradually higher from the south to the north in the Grimsnes County and is almost totally engulfed with water. Its highest point is called Hesteyru (The Horse’s Ears).
For more information on:
The Freiwilliges Ökologisches Jahr, visit http://www.foej.de
Vereinigung Junger Freiwillige, go to http://www.vjf.de/
The Eco-Village of Sólheimar, visit http://www.solheimar.is
25.06.2007 : On the way to Þórsmörk!!
The 12 international volunteers taking part in our project SEEDS 21. International Children’s games & Natural Reserve Þórsmörk, have moved today to the second half of their project!
We all are very grateful for the good time and experiences we had in Reykjavik with the Children's games and are looking forward to the next week in this beautiful area in the South of Iceland.
In Þórsmörk we will be performing different tasks as renovation works of the mountain huts and cabins, maintaining hiking trails and paths and some various works in "The forest of Þór"!
22.06.2007 : SEEDS 05. Langanesbyggð - Þórshöfn
SEEDS' Volunteers covering most of the Icelandic map! With this group in the Langanes peninsula and the other 3 groups in Sólheimar, Hornstrandir, Reykjavík and Þórsmörk, SEEDS volunteers make presence in all corners of the isle!
In Langanesbyggð and Þórshöfn, SEEDS has a group of 10 international volunteers hailing from Canada, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands and the UK! They will be hosted by the local community of Langanesbyggð, which has been a host of international volunteers from SEEDS since we started our work in Iceland. Our local contact, "Aggi", has wide experience in dealing with groups of volunteers and surely joined with Kristbjörg, Eyþór, Oddur and the inhabitants of the town will try their best to ensure our volunteers have a great Icelandic experience!
We will be working on environmental related matters. One of the biggest pollution issues in the area is the litter brought to the shore due to sea currents that even bring timber as far as from Siberia. Volunteers will be working on cleaning up the shores and beaches in the area. Additional work will be undertaken as reforestation tasks, planting trees and taking care of those already planted. Depending on the advance of the mentioned tasks volunteers might be marking some walking paths and hiking trails.
For more information on the Langanes district, please go to http://www.thorshofn.is
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