The theme of the project is to give young people from north, south, east and west a chance to experience new culture an learn new skills in relation to workplaces for people with diasablities and mental ilness, work with children and Youth Information/Media and communications. The volunteers will have a chance to understand different situations of people and learn from their experience. At the same time the experience will hopefully broden their horizon. For the work placements it is a opportunity to have someone from a different culture with who both the staff and the clients can talk to and exchange experiences and ideas. The volunteers are encouraged to bring in fresh ideas and activities.In this project 2 volunteers from Russia and France come to Iceland for 9 months and a Icelandic volunteers goes to Macedonia. The volunteers will have an impact on the foreign society and be influenced by the society itself.SólheimarThe summer time is busier than the winter time and during the winter most of the activities are indoor. The volunteer will rotate between different tasks and work in the Greenhouse, the Forestry Station (which includes physical work, repair things and grow trees), the guesthouse, the kitchen, the coffeehouse and also in the different workshops. The volunteer will always be a helper of the person in charge of each workplace and the volunteer will be expected to work where it is most needed in each moment. The workshops are:A weavery produces rugs, tablecloths, bags and other hand-woven products. The main source of the raw material used in production is discarded fabric, such as used hotel linen, unwanted or out of style clothes (especially jeans) donated by shops, companies and the general public, as well as left over wool from woollen mills. Cotton, wool and linen are either donated or purchased.The art workshop is the only workplace in Sólheimar that also has a day care function - painting and the creation of art from, for example, paper maché (from recycled paper), wool and silk is the focus here.In the wood workshop, children's toys, musical instruments and other artistic items handcrafted from wood are made. A part of the wood used is found or reclaimed.The candle factory, with a thirty-year history as a sheltered workplace, mainly reuses recycled wax. It works in cooperation with a national petrol station chain and the Reykjavík waste authority, which collect candle waste from all over Iceland on behalf of Sólheimar. Ten percent of the candles are made from biodynamic bees wax.