Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
Lazarillo is a Chilean app that helps people with visual disabilities to improve their independence with information on their routes to access physical or digital services. Lazarillo addresses the lack of affordable solutions to reduce the amount of time spent on care and domestic work by improving the well-being and independence of people with disabilities. They have benefited more than 400,000 people by delivering a simple platform that made it easier for people to have traveled more than 6000 times around the world independently.

Activities in the care economy:
Provision of technology & services that train/upskill domestic & care workers (e.g. technology that links employers to domestic/care workers)

Stage of growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion

Type of services: Care for persons with special needs (disabled / differently abled persons)

Number of customers (2020): 100K or more

Number of customers (2019): 100K or more

Number of customers (2018): 25K- less than 100K

Financials

Profitability status:
Not profitable yet but planning to become profitable within 3 years

Revenue USD (2020): 50K- less than 100K

Revenue USD (2019): 100K- less than 250K

Revenue USD (2018): 100K- less than 250K

Pathways to impact

Challenge addressed:
Lack of affordable solutions to reduce amount of time spent on care and domestic work (Reduce)

Pathway to impact – 4 Rs: Reduce

Populations affected: Persons with special needs or with illnesses

Number of people served (2020): 100K or more

Number of people served (2019): 100K or more

Number of people served (2018): 25K- less than 100