Week of Love in Bolungarvik

  Iceland

• Other Cities in Iceland: 
Reykjavik

Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks

Description: The yearly Week of Love in Bolungarvík will take place on August 10-16th. The program during the Week of Love is one of variety and entertainment. The goal of the Week of Love is to support the increase of newborns in Bolungarvík and by doing so increasing the number of residents and to encourage people to love one another.
Among the highlights of the Week of Love are a hugging course and an art show by children with the headline It is good to love. Poets from the Westfjords will read from their work of love poetry. The program also contains concerts, adventure yacht trips and last but not least the Laughing Healthy Gala Evening.

The volunteers will be helping with the preparation and during the festival. Other tasks will include working in the forestry, making hiking paths, beautifying the area around the village, cleaning the coastline.

Leisure time: Free access to the local swimming pool, excursions will be organized by the hosting partner.

There is an extra fee of 120 Euro that goes to support the local host of the project.

Highlights: Bolungarvík is a village in the North-West of Iceland, located at the Vestfirðir peninsula, approximately 13 kilometers from the village of Ísafjörður and 473 km from the capital city Reykjavík. It has 957 inhabitants. Bolungarvík has a long and interesting history, being one of the oldest fishing towns in Iceland, and one of the few mentioned in the Sagas. For centuries it was the greatest fishery town in the West Fjords and at the turn of the last century, the greatest in Iceland. The quiet countryside attracts some tourists, mainly in summer. There is an indoor swimming pool, a museum for natural history and an open air fishing museum. The surroundings of Bolungarvík are quite popular destinations for hiking, horse riding and bird watching. Bolungarvik was the shooting location for Nói Albínói, a movie by Dagur Kári about a teenager living in a remote Icelandic village.

Cost in US$: USD 290

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: motivated to work voluntarily within an international team, tolerant, open-minded and cooperative young person with adventurous spirit.

Age Range: 18 and over

This Program is open to American and Canadian Participants.

Participants Travel to Iceland Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups

CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects's Mission Statement: CADIP promotes peace, cooperation, tolerance and understanding in international, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural surroundings. The organization also promotes patterns and examples of civil activities focused on serving others, on building social ties and strengthening communities, on supporting civil society development. Aims and general objectives: * To promote volunteering as an expression of civic contribution * To strengthen the international contacts among young people * To build tolerance and understanding in multicultural and multi-ethnic surroundings *To promote multiunderstanding among youth all over the world * To facilitate the individual growth of the volunteers through the acquisition of work, life and learning skills * To work for the recognition and promotion of non-formal learning * To support the community initiatives and assist in community development.