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L'Arche is about more than inclusion

Help us continue to create safe and welcoming communities for individuals with intellectual disabilities. A place where people, whatever their differences, abilities or disabilities are celebrated. A place where there’s always a spot at the table – during the holidays and everyday.

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L’Arche in Canada

L’Arche Canada empowers the L’Arche communities in Canada to live the mission of L’Arche, collaborating for collective impact and sharing knowledge, services, and resources. This local, national, and international breadth gives L’Arche Canada a unique capacity to be a bridge-builder and to collaborate with diverse, multi-sectoral partners for inclusion and belonging.

900+ Participants

with intellectual disabilities in a wide range of programs—visual and performing arts, crafts, music, supported employment, social enterprise initiatives and recreational activities.

30 Communities

In nine provinces from coast to coast.

L'Arche Communities
110 Homes and Apartments

Providing accessible and inclusive housing for over 500 people with intellectual disabilities.

How your donation makes a difference

With your help, we can build a more compassionate, more human society.

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L’Arche Communities

Across Canada and around the world, L’Arche creates communities of friendship and belonging.

  • In L’Arche, people with and without intellectual disabilities live, work, learn, and grow together.
  • L’Arche demonstrates that when persons with intellectual disabilities take their place at the table, they contribute to a more just, compassionate, and vibrant world for all.
L'Arche Communities
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Work at L’Arche

  • In our world friendship matters.
  • L’Arche has a distinct spirit where persons with intellectual disabilities and assistants truly share life with one another.
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Our Impact

The Impact of L’Arche is personal, local, regional, national, and global.

Read L'Arche Canada's Annual Report