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	Community Leader Donna Rhall Administration Office Julie Robson 4/37 Charlotte Street Campsie NSW 2194 Ph: +61 2 9787 8132 Fax: +61 2 9718 9002 Email: sydney@larche.org.au

Can you help L'Arche Sydney?

L’Arche Sydney is currently looking for additional board members. We would particularly like someone with a background in accounting or law.

Geoffrey needs a new wheelchair.

If you feel you can assist L’Arche Sydney in this or any other way, please contact us!

We have 3 beautiful homes, filled with 9 unique core members, and a varying team of dedicated assistants from Australia and around the world. Our original home in Burwood is rented from the Department of Housing and we have two other homes in Campsie and Merrylands.

Burwood House
Bruce has been with us since the beginning of L’Arche Sydney and lives with other core members Joanne & Geoffrey. Cameron, Till & Piotrek are Assistants.

Cameron has been with L’Arche for 10 years, and will be going to India soon for three months on a L’Arche renewal.

Campsie House
Anthony, our youngest core member at 22, shares life with Janine, “Bonfire” (Hugh) and Katie at Campsie. Rosa co-ordinates the house and Ghassan, Eriko and Noel are the live-in Assistants.

Merryland House
Joseph has lived in Merrylands his whole life, so it was fortunate that there was “room at the inn” in the Merrylands House when he came to join us. He lives there with Gabriel, assisted by Claire, Raid, Martin and Hye Won. We are in the process of welcoming a new core member to this household.

Our History

L'Arche Sydney grew from a core group of members who built friendships with people with an intellectual disability and their families. In January 1980, the group began meeting for regular picnic outings. A number of those in the first "picnic group" were people who were living at a large institution in Gladesville, Sydney.

In 1983 the group was offered the use of a large house in Burwood, a suburb about 20 minutes west of the Sydney CBD. Five people with a disability, several from Gladesville, and a number of assistants, lived together under the direction of Father Peter Toohey, who was previously the Catholic chaplain at Gladesville.

A second house was established at Merrylands, in Sydney's west, which allowed another four core members with a disability to become part of L'Arche Sydney. When the opportunity arose to open another house close to Burwood in Campsie, 3 core members were welcomed, bringing to 11 the number of people with a disability living in the community.

Over the years, L'Arche Sydney has grown to a vibrant community of friends, supporting and living the life of the community together.

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