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.

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Dare 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.

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Three 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.

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L’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

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Who 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.

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From Christmas decorations to camouflage netting  

War: when the unthinkable happens, how would any of us react?

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Edita: 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.

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How 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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