Making a contribution to inclusion with Lego: This is what high school students from Gautingen do by building ramps out of the colorful plastic bricks.
Lego donations are welcome.
Gauting
- For wheelchair users, shops with steps, for example on the rising Gautinger Bahnhofstraße, are an insurmountable barrier.
That is why the Gautingen inclusion officer Martina Ottmar has started a new project: In cooperation with a sixth grade led by Quirin Schuster, teacher for Protestant religion at the Otto von Taube high school, the inclusion officer collects Lego blocks on the Gauting island for the construction of Lego ramps .
"We support Mrs. Ottmar's initiative," said Quirin Schuster on Friday afternoon at the on-site meeting in the island's garden.
The 24 children in the sixth grade "are on fire for the project".
The Backhaus Cramer, the Fantasia Travel Service on Starnberger Strasse, the natural food store and "Saus und Braus" on Bahnhofstrasse have already registered for the Lego ramps campaign.
On the ramp for wheelchair users in the island's garden, Ottmar and Schuster demonstrate how the portable ramps made of Lego bricks can be docked flush.
“Above all, we still need sloping roof tiles,” says the teacher.
"Measuring and then calculating the heights and angles of inclination was a challenge for us," he admits with an amused laugh.
Fortunately, there are already building instructions on the Internet portal Youtube: The Haunau grandmother Rita Ebel (63), paraplegic in a wheelchair since a serious car accident, invented the barrier-free Lego ramps in front of shops or restaurants.
The ramps have to withstand a weight of up to 450 kilograms.
With a small step, 1000 Lego bricks were enough for a solid and safe ramp.
There are already Lego ramps for accessibility in Munich and Würzburg, explains Martina Ottmar.
“I was able to get Quirin Schuster, my son Pepe's former teacher, immediately enthusiastic about the project,” she reports.
“Every student has a construction plan in their booklet,” says Schuster.
The Lego ramps would be glued and tested before laying.
“I think the inclusion project is good,” emphasizes Sophie (11), a high school student from Gauting.
"My mother was in a wheelchair as a child."
“The first Lego ramps should be ready by the end of January,” announced Ottmar.
Lego roof elements and panels are still missing.
Her son Pepe (12), who is in the seventh grade of high school, donated his own stones.
The Gautinger Insel, Grubmühlerfeldstrasse 10, welcomes Lego donations.
She can be reached at (089) 45 20 86 77.
Christine Cless-Wesle
