🏢 About the local organisation
Location: The volunteers will lead workcamps in different parts of Iceland. They will not have a special place that they can call their home but instead they will move around the island from one place to another working and resting in different places.
The workcamp leaders will work under the supervision of the project manager of the organization. They will be involved in preparing, organizing, running and evaluating art, nature orientated, environmental and renovation projects in south, East and the North of Iceland. Those projects are organized with international volunteers and usually last for 10 – 14 days. In each group there are one or two leaders from the organization.
At the beginning of the stay they will receive qualified training from the organization members. This training will capacitate her/him to perform the projects´ activities. At the same time, he/she will receive guidance in how to plan, organize and lead the projects, including topics as group management, conflict resolution, bookkeeping, development, leader roles, intercultural cooperation, motivation, etc. She/he will also receive practical information about planning a project, spare time activities, first aid, etc.
Once the season to working on the field arrives, the work will consist in supervising and developing the projects, coordinating groups of 8 to 15 international participants staying two Weeks at a time. At the end of their stay in Iceland, The project coordinator will be expected to produce an evaluation of the projects and their results.
💼 What the programme involves
Our primary activity is organizing environmental-related projects where people coming from different countries perform voluntary work. In organizing them, much emphasis has been put on making sure the volunteers see that their work is important, they help a community in need, or they work for the protection of the environment. In the meantime, they themselves form a community and get in close contact with locals as well as with other participants of the project from different cultures and nationalities. They find out about each other’s habits and ways of life, also getting an insight to the problems of the area and its inhabitants.
The volunteers will lead workcamps in different parts of Iceland
Profile of the organisation: Veraldarvinir, Worldwide Friends (WF), was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organisation promoting nature and peace-oriented activities for volunteers wanting to spend some time in Iceland. We also send local volunteers intending to have similar experiences abroad. WF aims at promoting active participation of people and its mobility, intercultural learning and voluntary service, through non-formal educational activities. The main activities offered are workcamps, seminars, local events and exchange programmes suitable both for young people and adults. WF is a non-profit organisation with international scope.