{"id":2848,"date":"2025-10-06T18:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/?page_id=2848"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:11:04","slug":"sjalfsbjorg-a-siglufirdi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/um-okkur\/adildarfelogin\/sjalfsbjorg-a-siglufirdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Rescue in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur \u2013 The Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2848\" class=\"elementor elementor-2848\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ccd9a4f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ccd9a4f\" 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-f2d10ad e-con-full e-flex elementor-invisible e-con e-child\" data-id=\"f2d10ad\" 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-7c90430 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7c90430\" 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>The Self-Help Association in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is the oldest Self-Help association in Iceland. It was founded on June 9, 1958, and has been in continuous operation ever since. Fourteen people met at Gr\u00e1nugata 14 in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur on that Monday evening &quot;to discuss the possibility of establishing an association for the paralyzed and disabled in Siglufj\u00f6r\u00f0ur,&quot; as stated in the association&#x27;s first minutes. The driving force behind the matter was composer Sigursveinn D. Kristinsson. The fourteen people founded the association that evening, as it was noted that there was great interest within the group in establishing an association that would protect such shared common interests. The first president of the society was Valey J\u00f3nasd\u00f3ttir. During the first year of operation, there were card nights, working meetings, a bazaar, and one dance.<\/p><p>,&quot;We immediately felt a great deal of goodwill and warm support for our organization here, and many people joined the association early as sustaining members,&quot; states the board&#x27;s report to the national association after its first year of operation.<\/p><p>The association organized a recreational trip in the summer of 1959, and it was one of the first of many Sj\u00e1lfsbj\u00f6rg trips in which more than one association participated, as the group met halfway with a seventy-person group from the Akureyri association. The route went through Skagafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and was considered particularly successful.<\/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>Sj\u00e1lfsbjargarf\u00e9lagi\u00f0 \u00e1 Siglufir\u00f0i er elsta f\u00e9lag Sj\u00e1lfsbjargar \u00e1 \u00cdslandi. \u00dea\u00f0 var stofna\u00f0 9. j\u00fan\u00ed 1958 og hefur veri\u00f0 vi\u00f0 l\u00fd\u00f0i \u00f3sliti\u00f0 s\u00ed\u00f0an \u00fe\u00e1. Fj\u00f3rt\u00e1n manns voru m\u00e6tt a\u00f0 Gr\u00e1nug\u00f6tu 14 \u00e1 Siglufir\u00f0i \u00feetta m\u00e1nudagskv\u00f6ld ,,til \u00feess a\u00f0 r\u00e6\u00f0a m\u00f6guleika \u00e1 stofnun f\u00e9lags lama\u00f0ra og fatla\u00f0ra \u00ed Siglufir\u00f0i,\u201c eins og greinir fr\u00e1 \u00ed fyrstu fundarger\u00f0 f\u00e9lagsins. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":768,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_theme","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2848","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2848","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=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14101,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2848\/revisions\/14101"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}