Volunteer > Workcamps in 2007 > Iceland
| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-01 | Patreksfjörður, Kvikmyndahátíð - Film Festival | 21.05.2007 - 04.06.2007 | FEST/RENO | 8 |
Preparations for the Film festival which will take place between May 25th and 27th, Renovation works on common areas of the town, embellishing the green recreational parts in the zone, gardening works, maintenance of hiking paths as putting up marking signs. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-02 | Hafnarfjörður, Víkingahátíð - Viking Festival | 04.06.2007 - 20.06.2007 | FEST/HERI | 8 |
Volunteers will help during the festival preparation, the festival itself and after it has finished. During the festival all volunteers will receive Viking typical costumes to wear and perform different tasks. Diverse types of tasks may be performed as control at the venues, assistance to visitors, and help to the “real” Viking volunteers in the kitchen or serving the meals. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-03 | Sólheimar*. Eco – Village | 07.06.2007 - 21.06.2007 | AGRI/RENO | 10 |
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. * The name Sólheimar means “home of the sun”. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-04 | Drangajökull – Hornstrandir | 16.06.2007 - 30.06.2007 | ENVI/CONS | 10 |
Volunteers will be working on mainly construction works with a group of locals, repairing and renovating an old docking pier for small boats to reach this isolated place of the country. Additional work can be performed in the old farm building house and some old hiking trails in the area. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-21 | International Children’s games & Natural Reserve of Þórsmörk | 18.06.2007 - 02.07.2007 | FEST/ENVI | 10 |
SEE beyonD borderS, will support with a group of international volunteers two different projects in Iceland. The first one will be the International Children’s games and during the second part of the projects our volunteers will be working in the protected area of Þórsmörk. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-05 | Langanesbyggð - Þórshöfn | 20.06.2007 - 05.07.2007 | ENVI | 10 |
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. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-19 | Þórsmörk* | 21.06.2007 - 05.07.2007 | ENVI | 12 |
Volunteers’ tasks will be mainly focused on construction, maintenance and marking of walking paths and hiking trails. Additional work might include maintenance of the mountain huts in the area, painting huts and cabins along with some forestry work. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-06 | Akraneskaupstaður - Írskir dagar, Irish Days! | 03.07.2007 - 17.07.2007 | ENVI/FEST | 10 |
Volunteers will work mainly with the environmental and public areas department of the township of Akranes (Akraneskaupstaður) and be involved during the “Irish Days” festival in Iceland. Different types of projects will be developed and depending on their advance, volunteers will share tasks in already started projects in an ancient fish-drying area, hiking paths and trails |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-15 | Kópasker & Raufarhöfn - Norðurþing | 04.07.2007 - 18.07.2007 | ENVI | 12 |
One of the biggest pollution issues, in the North East of Iceland, is the litter and waste brought to the shore due to sea currents that bring timber even as far as from Siberia. Volunteers' work will be mainly focused on cleaning up the shores and beaches in the area. |
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| Code | Location | Dates | Type* | Vols. |
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| SEEDS-07 | Patreksfjörður | 07.07.2007 - 21.07.2007 | ENVI | 12 |
Volunteers will be working on few different projects with the development agency of the Western Fjords, and this include preparations for the Hiking and Culture festival which will take place in late July, maintenance and marking of hiking paths, putting up of multilingual signs in places of historical and natural relevance. |
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