🇱🇹 ESC Volunteering in Lithuania 🕊️ Community Life With People With Intellectual Disabilities 🤲

Description

🌿 Kaunas L'Arche Community is a welcoming, faith-inspired community where people with intellectual disabilities and those who support them build meaningful relationships based on friendship, mutual respect, and shared life.

💛 Our community brings together compassion, spirituality, and professionalism through a range of services, including:

🏠 Living Home

☀️ Day Centre

🛠️ Social Workshop

🌱 Supported Decision-Making Department

✨ At the heart of L'Arche is a simple belief: every person has unique gifts and inherent dignity.

🌍 Our mission is to create a place where people with and without disabilities live, grow, and thrive together, discovering each other's strengths and enriching the world through authentic relationships.

🤲 We believe that everyone has something valuable to contribute, and that true community is built by embracing the uniqueness of every individual. 💫

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

🏠 Accommodation in a private room in a shared apartment

🚌 Monthly public transportation pass

🍎 Monthly food allowance & pocket money - €280 per month

Training during the activity

🤝 Monthly volunteer group meetings

🌱 Monthly one-to-one meetings with a mentor

🎓 On-arrival and mid-term training sessions

💻 Access to online language learning

🌍 Opportunities to participate in public solidarity events

📣 Opportunities to organize and promote solidarity awareness events

Participant profile

🌍 A genuine interest in meeting new people, building meaningful relationships, and embracing the richness of human diversity

🤝 Openness and respect when communicating with and accepting people from different backgrounds and with different abilities

✨ Goodwill, a positive attitude, and motivation to collaborate and contribute as part of a team

🌱 Patience and a sense of responsibility — or simply the willingness to develop these qualities

🏡 Openness to community life, shared experiences, and learning from one another

Activity details

Activity type

Individual volunteering

Activity dates

A total of 8 week(s) during the period 05/10/2026 to 30/11/2026

Location

Pienių g. 3, Kaunas, Lithuania

Deadline

No application deadline

Project code

2024-1-LT02-ESC51-VTJ-000224402

Topics

Looking for participants from

29 countries can apply. The activity takes place in 🇱🇹 Lithuania.