Aims
- The aim of L’Arche is to create communities, which welcome people with an intellectual disability. By this means L’Arche seeks to respond to the distress of those who are too often rejected, and to give them a valid place in society.
- L’Arche seeks to reveal the particular gifts of people with an intellectual disability who belong at the very heart of their communities and who call others to share their lives.
- L’Arche knows that it cannot welcome everyone who has an intellectual disability. It seeks to offer not a solution but a sign that a society, to be truly human, must be founded on welcome and respect for the weak and the downtrodden.
- In a divided world, L’Arche wants to be s sign of hope. Its communities, founded on covenant relationships between people of differing intellectual capacity, social origin, religion and culture, seek to be a sign of unity, faithfulness and reconciliation.