A 340-foot-long ramp(舷梯) allows kids with disabilities to get to the tree house.
Tree houses are wonderful places to play with friends. You can even just sit in them and dream. But for some kids, tree houses are only a dream. Many kids have never been in a tree house. Why? They have disabilities. They are unable to climb. Bill Allen and Phil Trabulsy are good citizens. They wanted to make these kids' dreams come true. In 1998. they started forever Young Tree Houses in Vermont. This group makes tree houses for kids with disabilities.
The tree houses have long ramps. Ramps help kids in wheelchairs get into the houses.
Kristen Messer, 17, visited a tree house for the first time. "It was really great having a tree house that I could get into without any help, ' Kristen says.
Chaz Freeman, a 19-year-old, uses a wheelchair. After he visited a tree house in New Hampshire, he said with a smile, "We get to experience what it is like to be a normal kid. "
Allen and Trabulsy's tireless group is working hard around the U. S. to build tree houses.
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Tree houses can't fit things that fit in many other houses. This bar graph shows the percent of U. S. homes that have these, goods.