G\u00edsli Rafn \u00d3lafsson visited V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0ask\u00f3li last Friday and gave a lecture to Year 10 pupils about his experience of humanitarian work. G\u00edsli Rafn also spoke about how pupils can help and contribute to humanitarian work.<\/p>\n
G\u00edsli Rafn has worked all over the world in humanitarian aid and is an expert in using technology for coordination when natural disasters strike. The students listened with great interest and a pin could have been heard drop as G\u00edsli Rafn described his experience of dealing with the bodies after the great earthquake in Haiti in 2010. G\u00edsli Rafn was the leader of the Icelandic International Rescue Squad that went to Haiti.<\/p>\n
It was interesting to hear what methods he uses to process the difficult emotions connected with his work in rescue operations. What gets him through it is the feeling of saving others. G\u00edsli Rafn pointed out that one of our basic needs is to help others. We feel good about helping. Saving others, he says, is a vitamin shot for the heart.<\/p>\n
The students were keen to ask questions and received many answers about e-bol and G\u00edsli Rafn's work in West Africa last winter. But G\u00edsli Rafn went to Africa on behalf of Nethope, which is an umbrella organisation for the 42 largest aid organisations in the world.<\/p>\n
What the students were keen to know was, what can we do today to help? G\u00edsli Rafn pointed out that young people can also help, for example by taking part in youth work with the Red Cross and rescue organisations. Likewise, teenagers can come up with their own ideas on how they can contribute, for example, by raising money in some way. It is also important to remember that time is something we can all give: spending time with others, helping others, teaching others. Let's give a warm welcome to those who come to Iceland and those who are expected to arrive in the country. Perhaps some new pupils will come to V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0ask\u00f3li, for example from Syria. Then, pupils can contribute, show friendship, teach them the language, etc. It is very important to get to know children and teenagers from other cultures.<\/p>\n
We warmly thank G\u00edsli Rafn \u00d3lafsson for an informative and inspiring lecture.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
G\u00edsli Rafn \u00d3lafsson kom \u00ed heims\u00f3kn \u00ed V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0ask\u00f3la s\u00ed\u00f0astli\u00f0inn f\u00f6studag og h\u00e9lt fyrirlestur um reynslu s\u00edna af hj\u00e1lparst\u00f6rfum fyrir 10. bekkinga. G\u00edsli Rafn r\u00e6ddi einnig um hvernig nemendur geta hj\u00e1lpa\u00f0 og lagt sitt a\u00f0 m\u00f6rkum \u00ed hj\u00e1lparstarfi. G\u00edsli Rafn hefur starfa\u00f0 \u00fat um allan heim vi\u00f0 hj\u00e1lparst\u00f6rf og er s\u00e9rfr\u00e6\u00f0ingur \u00ed a\u00f0 n\u00fdta t\u00e6kni vi\u00f0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}