{"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 \u00e1 jafnr\u00e9ttisgrundvelli. Sj\u00f3\u00f0urinn veitir ums\u00e6kjendum styrk vegna\u00a0hj\u00e1lparli\u00f0a\u00a0(a\u00f0sto\u00f0arf\u00f3lks) \u00e1 fer\u00f0al\u00f6gum. Skilafrestur ums\u00f3kna \u00ed sj\u00f3\u00f0inn er til 1. apr\u00edl \u00e1r hvert og veitt \u00far sj\u00f3\u00f0num\u00a0einu sinni \u00e1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/1"}],"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":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}