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HereWeGo, Accessible Places Everywhere!

An Accessible Tourism platform that helps tourists with disabilities to find their next travel destination!

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HereWeGo, Accessible Places Everywhere!

HereWeGo, Accessible Places Everywhere!

HereWeGo, Accessible Places Everywhere!

HereWeGo, Accessible Places Everywhere!

HereWeGo, Accessible Places Everywhere!

An Accessible Tourism platform that helps tourists with disabilities to find their next travel destination!

An Accessible Tourism platform that helps tourists with disabilities to find their next travel destination!

An Accessible Tourism platform that helps tourists with disabilities to find their next travel destination!

An Accessible Tourism platform that helps tourists with disabilities to find their next travel destination!

Filipe Freitas
Filipe Freitas
Filipe Freitas
Filipe Freitas
1 Campaign |
Funchal, Portugal
$302 USD $302 USD 13 backers
9% of $3,123 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal


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!

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Local flavours!

Currency Conversion $52 USD
€50 EUR
You will get a "Bolo de Mel" (a traditional sugar cane honey cake from Madeira) or a box with "Pastéis de Belém" (traditional cream cupcakes from Lisbon). We will also include a personalised thank you card signed by us.
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Thank you!

Currency Conversion $5 USD
€5 EUR
Any help is appreciated, and as we also like to help, we will donate half of this amount to "Grupo Dançando com a Diferença", an inclusive dance company (www.aaaidd.com).
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Special thanks!

Currency Conversion $10 USD
€10 EUR
A special thanks to you! We will mention you on our thank you blog post, and share it through our social networks.
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Local colours!

Currency Conversion $26 USD
€25 EUR
You will get a badge from Madeira, our homeland, or a badge from Lisbon, our workplace for the next months. We will also include a personalised thank you card signed by us.
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Local memories!

Currency Conversion $36 USD
€35 EUR
You will get a postcard from old Madeira or from old Lisbon. We will also include a personalised thank you card signed by us.
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Local sounds!

Currency Conversion $156 USD
€150 EUR
You will get a "Brinquinho" (a musical instrument used by folklore groups from Madeira), or a "Fado" CD from Lisbon ("Fado" is the traditional music genre from Lisbon, entered the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2011). We will also include a personalised thank you card signed by us.
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Local luxury wine!

Currency Conversion $260 USD
€250 EUR
You will receive a bottle of the world wide known and prestigious Madeira Wine, or a Premium Wine bottle with personalised label. We will also include a personalised thank you card signed by us.
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