Lissy and Per: Love in Skagen
Lissy and Per, who have been together for 17 years and married for 11. This is their story. This is an interview I did 5 years ago with Lissy and
Martin works in circus all summer
Martin works in circus all summer long. He has learning disability but that does not stop him from making friends and enjoying his job as a volunteer in Circus Arena
Leander and his tuk-tuk
Leander has always been told that his future was very limited, that he couldn’t get a job. But he didn’t believe that. And neither did his father. This is the
Coming to England. Let’s be friends
Let’s be friends. The We are Friends App today is coming to England. Do you know of organizations and initiatives we should contact? Personal message from Signe – our founder.
20 questions you can ask a new friend
Ok – now I got a new friend. What should I say to them? I think we all have had that question spinning our mind, when we got a friend
I ♥️ dogs, you ♥️ dogs – Let’s be friends
We say that at common interest is a good start for a friendship. But how much do you really need to have in common? I ❤️ dogs, you ❤️ dogs - Let's
”Moooom! Can I share this picture of you?”
“What if I share a wrong picture, do I have to go to jail?” That was the phrase I heard the most, when I started working with social media and
Interest is much more than something you have – it’s the core of everything we do in the App
I want you to meet Paul. Because Paul is such a great example of who one of our member-types is, and how he benefits from being a part of our
The gift of communicating – even if you can’t say anything
You dream of going on that fishing trip because you’ve never tried standing on that boat. Not even once. Imagine that your big interest is fishing. You dream of being
Going online with a community as a Summer Camp
When you combine offline activities with online activities you can reach a much wider audience and help even more people. Wouldn’t you love, if you could go to one platform
Build an online special community around your service
Connect your members with a community who can help them with their challenges and where you as an organization can do what you do best with the activities and support
You can’t be social online if you can’t talk
We launched our beta-version of the friendship app in Denmark summer last year. It really was a beta-version. The users could talk with each other by pictures, audio and video
It all started that day …
It all started that day … I met Peter. Peter is developmentally disabled. He lives together with 30 others who also have a developmental disability. I was so lucky to
Loneliness and absence
Our mission with We Are Friends is to reduce the loneliness of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It deeply touches us that people who are challenged for various reasons
Something to talk about
Some of us found it difficult to talk about nothing. What you call small-talk or nice-talk. We don’t quite know how to get started on a conversation without topic. And
A friendly mission
At We Are Friends, our desire is to make life more fun, easier and full of self-help for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We believe in a better world