Please support the wonderful work done at Camphill Communities all over Ireland.
Marie and Liam McCallion are hosting a coffee morning at their home 4 The Links, Old Golf Links Rd Blackrock, Co Louth on Saturday 30 August from 11-4pm.
What is Camphill
Camphill Communities of Ireland is part
of an international charitable trust working with people with
intellectual disabilities and other kinds of special needs.
In
Camphill the residents share their home, spiritual and working lives
with those who are motivated to meet others as individuals needing
support and recognition for what they are, and not as carer and cared
for in the conventional sense. Most of the people providing support to
those with disabilities are volunteers, coming locally or from abroad.
Camphill is a way of life, where each person according to ability contributes what they can towards the well-being of the other.
Pioneered
by war refugees in Scotland almost 70 years ago, Camphill today numbers
over 100 communities in 20 countries. In the Republic of Ireland, 18
communities of varying sizes and settings are home to around 500 people,
plus a number of day attendees.
Each
person with a disability supported by Camphill has different needs.
Camphill has responded by establishing centres that cater to those needs
and by constantly adapting itself to meet changes in those needs.
At
the core of the community is the recognition of the dignity of people
with mental disabilities, giving less importance to the material
equivalent of the work that is done by those who care for them as part
of the giving and sharing in communal life.
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