CareBuddy

About CareBuddy

Travel Hands is a service designed to ease the outdoor commute of VIPs (Visually Impaired People) by pairing them with sighted & verified volunteers to walk together to similar destinations ensuring a safe, convenient, and inexpensive travel experience. Travel Hands charity, based in London, relieves the needs of Visually Impaired People (VIPs) by facilitating safe, convenient, and inexpensive outdoor travel so they can attend formal appointments, recreational activities, and community events. Travel Hands enables the VIP community to have a safe outdoor traveling experience from end to end. With 700+ journeys conducted in London as a call center, the service has proven to save 30 minutes for every journey undertaken and 40 on travel costs per month as compared to pre-pandemic statistics for an active VIP in London. VIPs are encouraged to be more physically active and improve social interactions to avoid loneliness.