📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
This is the sixth year in a row SEEDS offers projects in the Botanic Garden in Reykjav k. The Botanic Garden is an outdoor collection of living plants founded in 1961, celebrating its 55th anniversary in 2016. The garden's main role is to conserve plants for education, research and delight. It conserves some 5000 plant species in eight plant collections.
SEEDS volunteers will be doing general gardening work, attending the flowers, trees and other plants. Volunteers will assist in organising and carrying out special events that might be planned with a short notice but they will all be related to the general aim and work of the garden.
This workcamp is a family camp, meaning volunteers can bring children (preferably, older than 4 years old) to the camp. There will be 1-2 leaders, depending on the number of children, helping parents to take care of activities for the children during working hours.
The work may be repetitive as general gardening tasks tend to be. The project starts early every week day, working hours are from 8:00 - 15:30, so volunteers have to be motivated to work early in the morning.
🏠 Accommodation on site
SEEDS volunteers will stay in a well-equipped house, in a beautiful setting inside the Botanic Gardens of the city of Reykjav k, which are located about 4 kilometres from the centre of the city.
Volunteers will be sleeping in shared rooms/dorms in a sleeping bag accommodation. Please bring your own sleeping bag. Please note that volunteers from other projects will also be staying in the house. Volunteers will receive food supplies and be in charge of the cooking and cleaning activities. Do not forget some traditional/typical food from your home country for the international evening.
📍 About the location
Reykjav k is a dynamic, modern city which lives in harmony with beautiful nature, using renewable energy sources such as geothermal power. About two thirds of the population of Iceland live in Reykjav k including the metropolitan area, or over 200,000 people.
Visitors to Reykjav k experience easily the pure energy at the heart of Icelande "s capital city - whether from the boiling thermal energy underground, the natural green energy within the city and around it, or the lively culture and fun-filled nightlife. In the summer, you can sit by the harbour at midnight and watch the sun dip slightly below the horizon before it makes its way up again.
In the area closer than 100 km from Reykjav k, there are several spectacular waterfalls, geysers, impressive coastline and the well-known geothermal Blue Lagoon spa to visit.