Anem!, the Spanish platform that offers shared trips to Valencia for those who have lost their car due to DANA

Technology has enormous potential to make people’s lives much easier. Whether to organize trips, travel or even to predict and mitigate the effects of climatic disasters like DANA, which caused great damage in the province of Valencia.

For example, certain uses of the mobile phone, such as emergency notifications from ES-Alert, can be of great help in these cases in order to prevent. However, there is also other initiatives that can improve coordination and assistance between citizens after this type of disaster.

One of them is Anem!, a tool created these days in Valencia by GuruWalk, and its name means “Let’s go!” in Valencian. This is a platform born from the harmful effects of DANA and whose objective is allow people who need it to share a vehicle.

It is a completely free platform, through which it seeks to allow people who do not know each other to share a car for facilitate transport and avoid congesting the roads. The floods that have occurred in recent days have complicated travel from one city to another in many areas of Valencia, and many people are mobilizing to help.

This initiative, with only a few hours of life, It already helps more than 500 peopleand the company’s technology team is already working on improving it, although for now the priority is to connect users who offer trips with those who need them.

Help with transportation

This application was created in response to the serious events that have occurred in recent days in Valencia and which have caused more than 200 human losses. Many people have lost their cars and have no way to get around, not to mention that many roads have been filled with debris preventing normal traffic in all lanes.

This platform meets the transportation needs of many people who found themselves without a vehicle or who want to help improve the situation in the province. This is an idea that has been strengthened with the devastation of the metropolitan area of ​​Valencia and its neighboring villages, which has caused a transport problem for many people and has congested access to some towns and villages .

Thanks to vehicle sharing means, it is possible to reduce the number of cars on the road, and that is always good for less pollution. For the moment, the platform is only accessible from its website, although the idea of ​​the company is that at some point it will have its own application.

It was decided to launch the service as quickly as possible to help as many people as possible. In just a few hours, more than 550 users have already registered and more than 340 trips have been published. No registration is required to view route announcements or contact drivers.

Free and shared

The idea is that it is completely free, since it only involves sharing a vehicle. Of course, the company recommends to passengers who have not been affected by DANA who offer the driver to share the costs of the tripalthough it is something that is always available to users.

How Anem works! It’s pretty simple and most of the process takes place between individuals who want to share a ride. On the one hand, they have a sign on which it is possible to announce the date, origin and destination of a trip that is going to be made. In this You will be able to see the trips with the available placeswhich will be the green lines, and those who no longer have free places, who will be the red lines. You can filter the map so that only trips with free seats appear, making them easier to find.

Users who want to participate in this trip will only have to contact the person offering it via WhatsApp to coordinate everything so that they can both travel in the same vehicle. In fact, on the map itself which appears on the main page You can already see many scheduled routes. If you access each person’s file, you can view their contact details, such as the address you are leaving from and going to.

This is a great idea that can help people who find themselves without a car or who cannot reach the most affected places come to their aid. With the extensive human and property damage caused by DANA, any assistance is minimal, and this initiative addresses a problem many people are experiencing.