Do you like to travel?
The thrill of meeting a
new place, different traditions and customs... sounds, flavours and colours... making new
friends and having new adventures to share.
The freedom of
discovering the riches that our planet has to offer.
Freedom that should be
experienced by EVERYONE!
Did you know that 15% of the world
population has some kind of disability?
That’s a lot of people, who, like any of us, like to
travel.
HereWeGo
HereWeGo is an
Accessible Tourism platform where you can get information on accessibility of the places
around you, and the opportunity to book a local host who will show the city you
choose to visit in a more casual and friendlier way.
Our Goal
With
HereWeGo we aim to
have all the information needed for a tourist with disability in one single
place. So he can have more choices when choosing his travel destination, and plan is journey comfortably.
- Book a local host, experience adapted activities, and choose your accommodation:
- Rent a car adapted to your needs, and some equipment that you might be in need:
A little of our history
On June 2013 we started working
on one of our dreams, the HereWeGo project. We love travelling and having Luísa Aguiar’s
experience on organizing travels for an
inclusive dance company (whose cast consists of people with and without disabilities) was crucial. Allied with Filipe Freitas knowledge on graphic design and the
sensibility on accessibility issues, HereWeGo was
born during the StartWEB 2013 edition, in Funchal. The difficulty to obtain
information about accessible places and how to
get a different touristic approach in a city visited by a tourist with
disability was the problem that we identified and proposed ourselves to offer a
solution.
After 8 months of hard work developing
HereWeGo into prototype phase, we knew it was time for another big challenge, so here we are… We have been selected, from almost 400 startups from 46 different countries, to participate in the Lisbon Challenge Spring’14 Edition.
Lisbon Challenge
Lisbon Challenge is a 3
months acceleration
program for international startups. There will be mentors, instructors, entrepreneurs and investors who will held a
number of workshops and master classes. A big
opportunity for us to continue developing HereWeGo,
and with passion, hard work and dedication, make it bigger.
Help us help them! Help us help you!
We believe we can improve and expand the HereWeGo platform, but for that we need your help. Our participation on Lisbon Challenge is an investment of dedication, hard work and money.
Help us to cover some of our living and travel expenses for the duration of the program. With your donations we will also be able to pay for an extra developer so we can expand our platform, in order to include all the information we want to provide a tourist with disability.
- 1000 EUR will be used to cover part of our travel and living expenses in Lisbon
- 2000 EUR will be used to pay for some of the extra developing team
- Any other amount will be invested in developing and advertising of our platform
What you'll get for helping?
Since we are good hosts we would like to offer you some traditional souvenirs from our home island, Madeira, or from the city that welcomes us, Lisbon
! This way you will get a small taste of these regions, but we hope to meet you in any of these places, or in any other accessible destination throughout the world!