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About L'Arche Beni-Abbes
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Can you help L'Arche Beni-Abbes? L’Arche Beni-Abbes is currently looking for more Board members and more assistants. We'd love some willing hands and/or donations towards up-keep at the households, for example gardeners and people with creative skills to share. We also ask for your prayers to support our dreams for a third house. We have drawn a blank with the Government for 2 years now in our request for a house and are currently exploring the possibility of a large donation or even the gift of a house in the New Town area. Can you help? Or do you know someone or an organization we could approach? We are always eager to meet groups who would welcome us to come and tell them about our life in L’Arche.
If you feel you can assist L’Arche Beni-Abbes in this or any other way, please contact us! |
Beni-Abbes is a small community with two households, both in the same street in inner Hobart.
In one house four core members (people with disabilities) share life with two live-in assistants and in the other there are four core members and two assistants. The latter property has a small house and two separate two-bedroom flats.
There is also a group of live-out community members, some of whom have roles such as Community Leader and House Coordinators, others are friends, part-time assistants, Board Members and volunteers.
Our History
The L’Arche Hobart Beni-Abbes Community (known as Beni-Abbes) was founded in 1986 after several years of prayer and planning. The Catholic Church donated a house in Pirie Street, New Town which had been bequeathed to the church by a parishioner of Sacred Heart New Town.
The community started small, with two founding core members, an assistant and the Community Leader living in the house, supported by a strong group of friends and volunteers.
Two more core members and another assistant were soon welcomed, and after an extension was added to the house in 1996, the complete household included five core members and three assistants.
Life was very hectic in a household of eight people. After the death of one of the core members in 2006 the decision was taken to downsize to four core members and two live-in assistants.
A second house, rented from Housing Tasmania, was established in 1993 and offers more independent living because of its two adjoining flats. This home, also in Pirie Street, supports four people with two live-in assistants.
In 2000, L’Arche Beni-Abbes began a tenancy support service which today provides both functional and relational support to 10 people with intellectual disabilities, who live independently in flats and units in the Hobart area. Tenancy members are welcomed into the community.
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