Volunteer > Workcamps in 2006 > Iceland
| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-01 | Suðureyri | 22.05.2006 - 05.06.2006 | ENVI / AGRI | 12 |
We will start cooperating with the local community of Suðureyri and the development of the area to attract more visitors to this remote place in the Icelandic Western Fjords. Volunteers will work preparing and putting up guiding signs, marking the attractions in the area and setting up a camping-site. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-02 | Þórsmörk & Landmannalaugar | 05.06.2006 - 16.06.2006 | ENVI / CONS | 10 |
At this project we will cooperate with Icelandic touring/hiking associations and volunteers’ task will be mainly focused on construction, maintenance and marking of walking paths and hiking trails. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-03 | Öxarfjörður | 16.06.2006 - 30.06.2006 | ENVI | 10 |
Different tasks will be performed: First: Cleaning-up the coastline; due to drift currents, sea waste and big amounts of timber originally from Siberia come ashore in the area, our project will focus on this task. Second: Marking and maintenance of hiking paths; and third reforestation and erosion control work in the area, basically planting trees. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-04 | Reykjavík & Þórsmörk | 02.07.2006 - 16.07.2006 | ENVI | 8 |
Volunteers will work in the surrounding area of the Icelandic capital and one of its suburbs –Hafnarfjörður- during the first week of the project and then will move to Þórsmörk. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-05 | Hvammstangi | 12.07.2006 - 31.07.2006 | ARTS / ENVI | 8 |
We will work during a youth arts festival held in Hvammstangi and also with the local office in charge of environmental matters. Volunteers with any kind of artistic skills are more than welcome and the organizers of the festival will try to involve them in the programme of its activities. Volunteers will work also planting trees and maintaining hiking trails in the area. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-06 | Sólheimar | 19.07.2006 - 02.08.2006 | ENVI / AGRI | 12 |
Volunteers will have the opportunity to work in the Eco-village of Sólheimar in two main sections: Either working with the forestry department of Ölur or in the vegetable organic-growing greenhouses of Sunna. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-07 | Neskaupstaður | 22.07.2006 - 05.08.2006 | ENVI | 12 |
Cooperation established with the township of Fjarðabyggð has started to develop with their environmental department. Volunteers will mainly work on finishing an already started project, the construction of a hiking path guiding visitors and locals to a nearby forested area, Páskahellir |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-08 | Dalvík | 02.08.2006 - 16.08.2006 | FEST / ENVI | 16 |
Our hosting community, Dalvík organizes once a year the “Great fish day”, a big scale voluntary project where most members of the community dedicate their time to the festival and to host the thousands of guests coming from all the corners of Iceland and abroad |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-10 | Þórshafnarhreppur & Langanes Peninsula | 07.08.2006 - 21.08.2006 | ENVI | 10 |
The county administration of Þórshafnarhreppur will be our host and 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. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-11 | Reykjavík: Hinsegin Dagar, Menningarnótt & Maraþon | 08.08.2006 - 22.08.2006 | FEST / ENVI | 12 |
The City of Reykjavík will be our host and we will be working in two main fields: Festivals and environment/green areas. During the period of time the workcamp takes place there will be 3 big festivals in the city, volunteers will be collaborating and helping around the different tasks before, during and after the festivals. |
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