Alive, but not free.
Reni exists because of a wound we watched stay open for far too long. This is why we built it.
The Distance Between Home and the Clinic
Reni was born from watching a loved one lose their freedom to a treatment that kept her alive, but kept her from living.
It started with Alport syndrome, a genetic condition most people have never heard of, quietly taking my mother's kidneys long before it took anything else. There was no single accident, no one bad day to point to: just a family slowly learning to live around a machine.
My mother’s life slowly shrank to the distance between her home and the dialysis clinic. Family gatherings were planned around session times. Spontaneity became a luxury she couldn't afford.
"The disease didn’t just attack her kidneys; it attacked her independence, her sense of being a whole person."
The Invisible Tax
We saw the gratitude for a treatment that gives extra years. But we also saw the invisible tax: missed weddings, cancelled trips, and the quiet grief of feeling like a burden.
Three sessions a week, every week, for more than fifteen years now. That's not a rough patch you push through; it's a life you have to build the rest of your world around, including whether you ever leave home again.
"Geographically trapped: alive, but not free."
Builders, but family first.
We are builders, but we are also family members of patients. We know what it feels like to sit in waiting rooms for hours. We know the silent calculations relatives make when planning anything.
We know the look in someone’s eyes when they realize “I can’t go” is not about desire, but about survival. Reni exists so fewer families have to make that trade-off.
The family behind Reni
I'm David Pesola, and I founded Reni. My mother has Alport syndrome and has been on haemodialysis for more than fifteen years. We are a family based in Portugal, and every trip we have taken together, from Porto to Fátima to the mountains, started with the same question: where will she have her sessions?
We are not doctors and we do not give medical advice. The clinic provides the treatment, and your own renal team decides whether and how you can travel. What we bring is the part we know from living it: finding a centre that takes visitors, asking early enough, and getting the paperwork in order.
The guides on this site are built on that experience: the questions our family had to answer before every trip. They are not medical advice, and no clinician has reviewed them yet. When one does, the guide will say so by name.
The wound we are built to heal.
From "Can I?" to "Where next?"
Turning the question from "Can I travel?" into "Where do I want to go next?", so you can enjoy new places.
Service, not spreadsheets
A system where planning a trip doesn’t come with panic and ten phone calls to clinics. We handle the logistics so you don't have to.
Where we are going.
Mission
Reni is building the infrastructure that makes dialysis travel a reality.
Vision
A world where treatment comes to you, not you to it, so no destination is out of reach.
A Promise
to You
"This isn’t just a company story. It’s a promise to every patient who has ever felt trapped."
Heritage
Building for our families.
Mission
Building for yours.
Start planning your life around living.