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The usual regional information meetings that take place in the month preceding the application period for the Programme (March) present this new year in a new format: the support given to the initiative under the “Healthy Beach” programme by the Vodafone Portugal Foundation has made it possible for this month’s 3 decentralised actions – 5, 12 and 19 February 2020 in Setúbal, Coimbra and Marco de Canavezes respectively – to have a more formative nature, through collaboration with the “Accessible Portugal” Association.

These sessions, aimed at technicians and municipal officials, concessionaires of bathing areas, authorities and agents responsible for safety and bathing surveillance, as well as technicians and officials of the regional services of the Portuguese Agency for the Environment and Tourism of Portugal, include this year, in addition to the informational aspect about what an Accessible Beach means, a set of testimonies of people with various types of disabilities who have attended them and their companions.

This approach is of great relevance for a better understanding of the impact that the Program has had on the main recipients of the Program, citizens with restricted mobility and their family and friends, because in addition to informing us of the added value that the increase in the offer of accessible beaches has been providing them, both on the coast and in the interior of the country, it warns of what still remains to be achieved, pointing the way forward to improve and make this Program even more inclusive.