The Icelandic Affiliation for Search and Rescue (ICE-SAR) not too long ago started promoting Swiss watches in a fundraising effort. Up to now, ICE-SAR’s important fundraising has been via the sale of fireworks for New 12 months’s Eve and the annual sale of the Neyðarkall (‘rescue employee’) keychain.
ICE-SAR is a a nonprofit, noncommercial, volunteer-based group that focuses on search and rescue providers on land and at sea across the coast of Iceland. It operates near 100 rescue models nationwide and has between 4 and 5 thousand lively members.
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, the watches, made by Luminox, are perfect for Icelandic circumstances. They’re geared up with nanotechnology, which makes it doable for them to offer a continuing 24/7 glow. That’s certain to come in useful in a rustic the place daylight is in brief provide within the wintertime. The watches vary in worth for ISK 69,000 to 104,000 (USD 530-800; EUR 470-700).
“These are lovely watches, and there’s at all times curiosity in them,” states Kristján Þór Harðarson, managing director of ICE-SAR, which in Icelandic is known as Landsbjörg. “We’re not promoting truckloads of them, however many individuals are fascinated by them, since they’re of top of the range.”
Preparations are underway for the annual fireworks sale, and so they’ve been vastly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Transport from China, specifically, proved fairly sophisticated.
“With the assistance of fine folks and corporations, we’ve managed to acquire what we ordered,” Kristján states. The final containers are anticipated subsequent week.” That’s significantly later within the yr than in a median yr, giving volunteers much less time than often to prepare for the sale. Nonetheless, Kristján is satisfied that it’s going to all work out effectively. Fireworks can be on the market for 3 days previous to New 12 months’s Eve.
Though the price of transporting the fireworks is up this yr, Kristján states that their costs won’t rise a lot. “The alternate charge was favorable,” he notes, “which counterweighed the rise in transport value. General, we’re more than happy with how effectively we succeeded. The worth enhance can be effectively under ten p.c, presumably about 5 p.c.”
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