L'Arche in India : L'Arche

Asha Niketan the name chosen by L’Arche in India, means House of Welcome. And that welcome is very broad: Asha Niketan brings together men and women with and without disabilities from all castes, faiths and social backgrounds. Asha Niketan is a bridge of collaboration with the shared goal of helping each person to fulfil their full potential.

If L’Arche (Asha Niketan) is a 'school of the heart', Core Members are the professors. They teach us how to live in love.

James Schreiner, volunteer who lived in Asha Niketan Chennai for a year

What's new in India

Her story, her way

This International Women’s Day on March 8, L’Arche salutes Priya from L'Arche in India, a woman who enjoys telling her story, her way. And that me...

Lockdown is unlocking creativity and solidarity across the Federation

Today, no country in the Federation has been left untouched by Covid-19: many of our workshops have had to close temporarily; programmes have been put...

Silence: what is it saying?

“No words. Franci had no words at all,” says Hazel Bradley, a long-term member of L'Arche London, UK, recalling her years in India with Franci Jay...

Grieving a friend…

What unites Kolkata and London? Many things, probably. Including sheer pain of grief at the death of a close friend. Bapi was a man with an intellectu...