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About L'Arche Genesaret in Canberra



	Community Leader Claire Lawler Administration Office Rosemary O'Mally PO Box 419 Curtin ACT 2605 Ph: +61 2 6282 9066 Fax: +61 2 6282 9044 Email: canberra@larche.org.au

Can you help L'Arche Genesaret?

Gledden Street:

Pergola ($1300 completed)

Carport (scrapped)

Air Conditioning ($5000)

New Oven ($1000)

Window Awnings (3 = $800)

Security Doors (2 = $500)

Sensor Lights (2 = $180 incl Inst)

Landscaping ($1000)

Gledden Street Flat:

Oven ($450)

Exhaust Fan ($300 installed)

Shower Screen ($250)

James Street:

Oven ($1000)

Bathroom ($4170)

Vehicle (suggest Sladen vehicle)

Sladen Place:

Sensor lights (x2 $180)

Reverse cycle Air Condit (Govt.)

Croc Pot ($90)

Saucepans ($400)

Rice Cooker ($70)

Clothes Dryer ($400)

Industrial Vacuum Cleaner ($600)

Vehicle (suggest leased Station Wagon)

If you feel you can assist L'Arche Genesaret in these or any other way, please contact us!

Our homes of those with disabilities and those who care for them are central to our community. We share the ups and downs of our life together within the context of our faith community.

Our community also includes a Community Leader, Community Council, Board of Directors, friends who join us in prayer or offer support, house neighbours, prayer companions and so on.

We come together each month to celebrate our community life on Community Night and also join with the wider community to pray on another night. We have a time of reflection and input at our Desert Mornings once a month. We offer great hospitality and love to invite our friends to share a meal in the evenings or at the weekends. In the summer months we often gather at the weekends to enjoy our wonderful parks for a BBQ and usually a game of cricket or soccer.

Our History

The L'Arche community in Canberra is known as L'Arche Genesaret. It had its beginnings in the early 1970s, and in April 1978 welcomed its first member at a former convent at Bungendore, a village 20 kilometres east of Canberra.

To offer better work and recreation opportunities, the community relocated to Yarralumla, in Canberra, in 1980.

It bought its own home at Chifley in 1982, and two years later, in 1984, opened a second home. A third home was established in 1986.

Today L'Arche Genesaret maintains three houses and two self-contained flats in the Canberra suburbs of Chifley and Curtin, providing accommodation for 13 people with disability.

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