Did you know there are federal mandates requiring handicap ramps and bathrooms at schools, but NO rules are set in place for installing handicapped-accessible, automatic doors?

 "If we can get our kids to the door, we want to be able to get them through the door."

Federal mandates require handicapped ramps in front of school buildings, but that's where help for our children stops. Students might be able to help themselves get up the ramps, but they can't enter the school on their own.

Shopping malls, court houses, and grocery stores have these doors...why don't our schools? Thousands of children with disabilities are faced with incredible obstacles each and every day....obstacles that should not be in their way. 

  The Ability Foundation needs your help with their biggest fund-raising goal. Their dream is to install handicapped-accessible, automatic doors in all elementary, middle, and high schools. This would provide easy access to not just students with disabilities, but teachers, parents, elderly grandparents, and anyone with disabilities who needs extra help getting through school doors.

Last updated on February 6, 2008:

Since our first handicapped door was installed at Lee High School in August of 2004, the Ability Foundation and its hard-working, dedicated, supporters have installed 47 handicapped-accessible, automatic door operators in schools within Huntsville city, Madison city, and Madison County, Alabama. Click on the Sponsors page for a full list of schools and their sponsors.

For information contact the Ability Foundation Director:

Georgina Chapman
abilityfoundation@gmail.com (256) 604-9838

Or you can mail the Ability Foundation: 

2025 Sewanee Road, Huntsville, AL 35801

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE MAILING LIST!!

The Ability Foundation is a registered 501 (c)(3), non-profit organization which raises money and awareness for children with physical and mental disabilities and installs handicapped-accessible, automatic doors in schools.