About
Disability should not limit where you can go
Toolib gathers adapted places, equipment and services, and makes them findable by the people who need them.
Why Toolib
The supply already exists. It is invisible.
French law defines disability as any limitation of activity or restriction of participation in society caused by an impairment of one or more physical, sensory, mental, cognitive or psychological functions. Twelve million people in France are concerned.
Many live with a disability limiting enough to prevent full autonomy, yet not severe enough to qualify for support. Meanwhile a vast stock of adapted equipment and housing sits unused in private homes, for want of anywhere to offer it.
Remove the obstacles that are, in practice, drivers of discrimination.
That is the mission we set ourselves: bring that existing supply to light, and let anyone offer or find something that answers a specific need.
The problem
Two obstacles, never just one
Getting there
Reaching a place means an adapted vehicle, a workable journey, sometimes someone alongside. Without that first step, the rest never comes up.
Being autonomous once there
Arriving is not enough. A bathroom, a bed, a door width, equipment available on site: autonomy hangs on details ordinary listings never mention.
Who it is for
For any loss of mobility, temporary or lasting
Toolib is for people living with a disability or a loss of autonomy, whatever the duration: a few weeks of recovery counts as much as a permanent situation.
It is just as much for the carers, relatives and health professionals who search, book and check on their behalf.
No disability is left out.
What you will find
One platform, four needs
Rather than four searches across four services, everything sits in one place, described against the same accessibility criteria.
Places to stay
Cottages, flats, houses and rooms described room by room, with the adaptations they actually have.
See places to stayEquipment
Wheelchairs, hoists, medical beds: equipment waiting where you are going, rather than carried there.
See the equipmentVehicles
Adapted vehicles, so the journey is possible and not only the arrival.
Services
The support and services that hold a stay together.
Adaptations are verified, not merely declared
A team of occupational therapists validates the adaptations owners describe. A ramp announced is not a ramp you can use: the difference is measured, and that checking is what lets you leave without wondering what you will find on arrival.
Our values
What we will not trade away
Equal opportunity
Public support working alongside private initiative strikes us as the sturdiest answer for disability to stop being a brake on a chosen life.
A community, not a catalogue
People sharing their adapted belongings, safely and in confidence. Toolib exists only through those who put something into it.
A genuinely complete offer
One answer to mobility questions, in one place, held to the same standard on every kind of listing.
The team
Who runs Toolib
Guillaume and Vincent are childhood friends who left their jobs as a software engineer and a reintegration officer to build Toolib. Around them, a small and versatile team.
Leadership
Holds the course, makes the calls, and finds the means to keep the project going.
Engineering
They code, recode and improve the site day after day so the experience measures up.
Owner relations
They are the voice on the phone, and the ones who go out and find the adapted places that grow the platform.
Operations
A conductor of sorts: coordinates every function and holds the finances. Its creed: organisation.
Communication
Full of new ideas, they lean on real usage to build content that speaks to our users.
Whoever we are, this concerns all of us
Our mother, our grandfather, a friend, a neighbour, ourselves one day. Toolib fills up with whatever each of us puts in.