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L’Arche Santo Domingo
People with an intellectual disability often have the remarkable capacity to touch others. They are particularly welcoming and spontaneous, and their sensitivity allows them to bring us together, to enrich and challenge us as human beings. L’Arche is convinced that our societies are in need of these qualities and that people with an intellectual disability can be real teachers who are able to lead us back to the essential.
L’Arche International is a Federation of more than 135 member communities, established as independent entities in 36 countries. The communities encompass 5000 people with and without an intellectual disability, who share their lives in homes, workshops and day programmes.
Every L’Arche community offers people with an intellectual disability a family-style living environment that encourages them to create a home, to develop their talents, to build friendships and quite simply, to make the most of life! But L’Arche communities are also places of welcome and support for families and friends, volunteers and neighbours, churches and other social service groups. Through their day, outreach or educational programmes and the large network of former assistants who have experienced our vision, L’Arche is actively working toward social change.
L’Arche is present in the Western part of Santo Domingo. Founded in 1984, the community develops its activities in two homes, a day program and a workshop. The communities in Latin America & the Caribbean are characterised by strong relationships, but also by a great fragility as most communities are established in poor neighbourhoods.
Type of Work: living in community with people who have intellectual disabilities; assisting people with intellectual disabilities in a workshop setting
Members of the L’Arche Santo Domingo Community
L’Arche Santo Domingo
L’Arche Latin America and Carribean
Apartado Postal : 2-8 Herrera
Santo-Domingo, Domincan Republic
Tel : +1 809 561 3524
Fax:+1 809 561 3524
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El Arca Latina
Consuelo, Domincan Republic
A short video of Cynthia and Daniel who spent the summer of 2009 in Consuelo, Domincan Republic;
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