Empowering young change-makers
Launched in February 2024, a ground-breaking self-advocacy project titled "TwidSA: Together With and Without Disability in Self-advocacy" is about to see youth workers with and without intellectual disabilities team up across four richly diverse cultures.
Read moreDare to ask!
‘Just dare to ask!’ says Loredana, L’Arche Il Chicco (Rome) community leader, recalling how her community’s 10 year partnership with Ikea got started.
Read moreThree writers, three countries, and two ants
Over 100 countries participate each year in World Book Day on 23 April, the annual UNESCO celebration of reading and writing.
Read moreL’Arche gets behind Zero Waste Day 30 March
Thousands of tons! That is the answer to the question, ‘how many old books get buried in UK landfill sites each year?’ Which partly explains why L’Arche Brecon’s (UK) Rebound Books received another Sustainability Award
Read moreWho knows where a chance encounter might lead?
For Juana Isela Guerrero Puga, an intellectually disabled member of the L’Arche community in Querétaro, Mexico, the answer is... a new job, new colleagues, new horizons, and with it, a new self-confidence.
Read moreFrom Christmas decorations to camouflage netting
War: when the unthinkable happens, how would any of us react?
Read moreEdita: My life, my voice.
Edita Daugėlaitė’s inspirational story has set a legal precedent in her own country, Lithuania. It is not every day that a person with an intellectual disability wins the legal right to be treated as an adult.
Read moreHow is L’Arche like the Olympics?
This July, it is the turn of Paris, France to host this extraordinary moment of colour, pride, effort, diversity and shared support. Not to mention fantastic teamwork!
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