Fundraising for people with learning disabilities impacted by war in Ukraine
Tim Chapman: cycling 1,000 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats
My Story
Commencing 12 June I will be cycling the 1,000 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats, taking 12 days. This will be the toughest physical chalIenge that I have ever undertaken. I am raising funds for L'Arche Ukraine to support vital work in service of some of the most vulnerable people impacted by the war.
Today, people with disabilities are among the worst affected groups affected by the conflict in Ukraine. A recent BBC report highlighted thousands abandoned since the start of the war, while their carers left the country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-61325277.
Since the invasion, L’Arche has been working with refugees with disabilities from seven community sites in Poland and Lithuania. The charity is also working daily within Ukraine alongside more than 60 people with disabilities and their families, for whom leaving is practically impossible.
In Poland and Lithuania, L’Arche members with and without disabilities have opened their community homes to accommodate refugees for as long as necessary. Read here about Igor, welcomed by L’Arche in Poznan, who travelled nearly 2,000km from the Donbas. www.larche.org.uk/its-a-miracle-im-here
Within Ukraine, L’Arche has continued to provide daily connection and community, as well as basic emergency relief, to people with disabilities and their families who have stayed behind in Lviv and Ternopil. L'Arche has reopened workshops in safe basement locations, providing support to more than sixty adults today who would otherwise be extremely isolated. The charity has been working in Ukraine for almost three decades.
In ordinary times, L’Arche’s mission is to build inclusive life-sharing communities alongside adults with learning disabilities in 38 countries worldwide.
We are seeking financial support to enable this vital relief work to continue.
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Target
£5,000
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Raised so far
£5,731
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Number of donors
37
My Story
Commencing 12 June I will be cycling the 1,000 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats, taking 12 days. This will be the toughest physical chalIenge that I have ever undertaken. I am raising funds for L'Arche Ukraine to support vital work in service of some of the most vulnerable people impacted by the war.
Today, people with disabilities are among the worst affected groups affected by the conflict in Ukraine. A recent BBC report highlighted thousands abandoned since the start of the war, while their carers left the country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-61325277.
Since the invasion, L’Arche has been working with refugees with disabilities from seven community sites in Poland and Lithuania. The charity is also working daily within Ukraine alongside more than 60 people with disabilities and their families, for whom leaving is practically impossible.
In Poland and Lithuania, L’Arche members with and without disabilities have opened their community homes to accommodate refugees for as long as necessary. Read here about Igor, welcomed by L’Arche in Poznan, who travelled nearly 2,000km from the Donbas. www.larche.org.uk/its-a-miracle-im-here
Within Ukraine, L’Arche has continued to provide daily connection and community, as well as basic emergency relief, to people with disabilities and their families who have stayed behind in Lviv and Ternopil. L'Arche has reopened workshops in safe basement locations, providing support to more than sixty adults today who would otherwise be extremely isolated. The charity has been working in Ukraine for almost three decades.
In ordinary times, L’Arche’s mission is to build inclusive life-sharing communities alongside adults with learning disabilities in 38 countries worldwide.
We are seeking financial support to enable this vital relief work to continue.
