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Disability Inclusion partnership with National Funds for the Disabled of Kenya (NFDK)

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Sharing Life

Sharing Life

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Build Relations

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Raising Funds to
support Disability
Inclusion

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Experience the Love !

Thank You For Helping My Friend Gathoni Breathe

All through the campaign, I carried my friend Gathoni in my heart and I felt so united with her in spirit and especially in moments when I too, just like her, struggled to breathe while going through the tough terrains of Nyandarua, Nakuru and Laikipia counties. In my silence, I whispered to myself, “Maurice, it’s ok to lose your breath if it is the only way to give your friend breath”...

: Published: 13 April 2022

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From the day Moses joined Betania home one year ago, Paul has made it his personal responsibility to look after him as he refers to him as his younger brother.

: Published: 16 March 2022

CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. and Miss L'Arche Kenya 2021.

Saturday 31st August 2021 started like any other day in Nyahururu: shiny and unexpectedly chilly. The youth started arriving at Effatha home grounds first a trickle and later a deluge. By the end of the day, four youth had been crowned Miss and Mr, L’Arche Kenya.

: Published: 02 September 2021

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Programmes

Effatha and Betania Home

At the centre of L'Arche Kenya are the two homes, Effatha and Betania, where people with intellectual disabilities live and work together with their assistants. The core members find there a safe and supportive environment that allows them to pursue their own interests and grow. The homes also serve as a showpiece to the communities an how to give people with disabilities a normal and dignified life.

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Occupational Therapy Workshops

L’Arche Kenya also implements an occupational therapy programme that provides adults with intellectual disabilities with a meaningful engagement while nurturing their gifts. Currently, the organization supports 33 adults in various workshops. candle-making workshop, craft workshop, sensory workshop, kitchen and catering workshop, cleaning workshop and carpentry workshop. These workshops give persons with intellectual disabilities with real-life work experience and prepare them for integration into employment.

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Disability Outreach Programme
The Disability Outreach Programme links the organization to the local community by providing spaces for PWIDs to make known their gifts and offering services to children, youth and adults with various disabilities. Some of the activities include:

Advocacy forums at the grassroots level to advocate for the inclusion of persons with disabilities

Community engagement and mobilization to address the issues that persons with disabilities encounter
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Social Enterprise

L’Arche Kenya runs a social enterprise that aims at providing the organization with some level of financial sustainability as well as showcasing the gifts of our core-members through internal work placement. The projects include the Marleen gift shop, a bakery, the Maranatha welcome and rescue unit, a leather workshop,a poultry project, and a vegetable farm.

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Marleen Crafts

At Marleen Crafts, we sell the produce of your social enterprise.

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