Live in Assistant with L’Arche Australia
People choose to join L’Arche as a volunteer or assistant to people with intellectual disabilities from a variety of backgrounds and motivations
L’Arche Australia seeks to attract more Australians to join a program which will lead them being well trained and committed to life in L’Arche, to understand the needs of people with disability and to believe in the importance of relationship and mutuality while living together with people with and without disabilities in a faith based environment. A live-In Assistant is someone in living with shares and creates home with people who have intellectual disabilities (the term we use in L’Arche is Core Members) and other Assistants; a home which reflects values of personal dignity, celebration and honest relationship
This is an opportunity to enter a new world of experience and building of mutual relationships that many people never discover. There are also other opportunities to volunteer at L’Arche such as providing transport and simply being a friend.