“I was waiting for death at home, and overnight, I came back to life”.
Like many disabled people in wheelchairs, Charazed had to stay “locked up” in her home, sometimes for weeks because of a broken elevator.
“Her resurrection”, this resident of Clichy owes it to the Vertimove: a motorized chair that helps her go down and up her stairs.
For several months, its social landlord (Hauts-de-Seine Habitat) has made this vertical mobility assistance solution available to the inhabitants of the building.
Proposed by the company of Fouad Ben Ahmed, co-founder of a collective against elevator breakdowns, it allows less mobile tenants to leave their homes.
The machine, a robotic lift, adapts to the wheelchair to make it climb the steps one after the other.
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"We want a health clause to be included when there is an elevator in a building, and that in the event of immobilization, as for public transport, this alternative is offered by the lessor", insists Fouad , who traveled to the Senate to lay the groundwork for a bill.
With success, his Vertimove is claimed as far as Marseille.
In Île-de-France, the regional council even voted for the purchase of 32 new seats by the start of 2023.