The Aid Fund of Sjálfsbjörg, the National Federation of the Disabled, was established in 1997 with the goal of making it easier for people with disabilities to travel. The fund's goal is to enable disabled members of Self-Help groups to travel domestically and abroad on an equal basis. The fund provides applicants with grants for paramedic (for assistants) on trips.

The deadline for applications to the fund is April 1st each year, and grants are awarded from the fund. once a year if funds permit.

If an application is received during the year, it will wait until the aforementioned date. The foundation board's decision on the allocation will be communicated to the grant recipients by computermail no later than 7 weeks after the application deadline expires.

Applications are submitted online here on the Sjalfsbjorg website:

Application to the Relief Fund

You can find the rules for the Sjálfsbjörg Aid Fund here.

The summer of 2005 was gone. Kjartan Jakob Hauksson He went on a rowing boat tour around the country and collected pledges, which were then donated to the Self-Help Fund. The fund had become quite small at this point, and this really helped to revive it.

Then ran Björgvin Ingi Ólafsson í The Reykjavik Marathon 2016 in the name of the fund and returned it to the fund $356,899.– and he also ran in 2017 and 2018.