{"id":12563,"date":"2026-04-04T17:49:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/?page_id=12563"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:42:07","slug":"hjalparlidasjodur-sjalfsbjargar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/starfsemin\/styrkir\/hjalparlidasjodur-sjalfsbjargar\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Help Relief Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"12563\" class=\"elementor elementor-12563\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73b0ae4b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"73b0ae4b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c0518d7 e-con-full e-flex elementor-invisible e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4c0518d7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7533ec2b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7533ec2b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-block-key=\"b3euk\">The Aid Fund of Sj\u00e1lfsbj\u00f6rg, 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&#x27;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\u00a0<b>paramedic<\/b>\u00a0(for assistants) on trips.<\/p><p data-block-key=\"fce49\">The deadline for applications to the fund is April 1st each year, and grants are awarded from the fund.\u00a0<b>once a year<\/b>\u00a0if funds permit.<\/p><p data-block-key=\"900td\">If an application is received during the year, it will wait until the aforementioned date. The foundation board&#x27;s decision on the allocation will be communicated to the grant recipients by\u00a0<strong>computer<\/strong><b>mail<\/b>\u00a0no later than 7 weeks after the application deadline expires.<\/p><p data-block-key=\"80ble\">Applications are submitted online here on the Sjalfsbjorg website:<\/p><h4 data-block-key=\"6gmdo\"><a href=\"\/en\/umsokn-hjalparlidasjodur-sjalfsbjargar-lsh\/\">Application to the Relief Fund<\/a><\/h4><h4 data-block-key=\"2fok6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2019-Reglur-Hjalparlidasjodur.docx.pdf\">You can find the rules for the Sj\u00e1lfsbj\u00f6rg Aid Fund here.<\/a><\/h4><div>\u00a0<\/div><p data-block-key=\"7dac\">The summer of 2005 was gone.\u00a0<b>Kjartan Jakob Hauksson<\/b>\u00a0He 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.<\/p><p data-block-key=\"4js2\">Then ran\u00a0<b>Bj\u00f6rgvin Ingi \u00d3lafsson<\/b>\u00a0\u00ed\u00a0<b>The Reykjavik Marathon<\/b>\u00a02016 in the name of the fund and returned it to the fund\u00a0<b>$356,899.<\/b>\u2013 and he also ran in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hj\u00e1lparli\u00f0asj\u00f3\u00f0ur Sj\u00e1lfsbjargar landssambands hreyfihamla\u00f0ra, var stofna\u00f0ur \u00e1ri\u00f0 1997 me\u00f0 \u00fea\u00f0 a\u00f0 markmi\u00f0i a\u00f0 au\u00f0velda hreyfih\u00f6mlu\u00f0um a\u00f0 fer\u00f0ast. Markmi\u00f0 sj\u00f3\u00f0sins er a\u00f0 gera hreyfih\u00f6mlu\u00f0um Sj\u00e1lfsbjargarf\u00e9l\u00f6gum kleift a\u00f0 fer\u00f0ast innanlands og utan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":12554,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_theme","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12563","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14152,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12563\/revisions\/14152"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"word per minute","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}