Legos to the Rescue
Disabled by a car accident 25 years ago, Rita Ebel had long been frustrated by the number of shops and cafés that were inaccessible to wheelchair users. A year ago, the 62-yearold grandmother from Hanau, Germany, came up with a simple solution: ramps made of Legos. Helped by her husband, Ebel has constructed dozens of these surprisingly sturdy, made-to-order Lego ramps for shop entrances. “I’m trying to sensitize the world a bit to barrier-free travel,” says Ebel. “Anyone could suddenly end up in a situation that puts them in a wheelchair, as happened to me.”
“It’s a brilliant idea,” says Malika El Harti, who has one of Ebel’s ramps at the entrance to her hair salon. “You can see from afar that you can get in here without any problems.”