A night for El Arca (L'Arche)

 

El Arca celebrates its fifth “Annual Fundraising Dinner” for the Home extension in Boulogne .

 

On Wednesday September 26, at 20.30 hs. at The Círculo Militar ( Santa Fe 750), El Arca Argentina will celebrate for the fifth consecutive year its annual fundraising dinner. Among the general guests, we shall have the artists who have donated their works, members of El Arca and its President, María Luisa Malbrán.

The purpose of this gathering is to raise funds for the extension of the Home, located in Boulogne, where currently live 3 “core members” (persons with intellectual discapacity – Osvaldo, Sandra and Maxi-, 3 assistants from Belgium, France and Nicaragua –Julie, Gael and Desiree-, and the Director, Fernando Barilatti. All live together in a space which urgently needs an extension, mainly, to be able to receive more members. On a daily basis, many children and friends go around El Arca to participate in several activities, as the ones develop at the workshop, where toys, candles, paintings and woodcrafts are made.

To see the paintings and sculptures which will be auctioned at the dinner, El Arca will throw a cocktail party at the Javier Baliña Art Gallery (Arenales 1428) on Wednesday September 19 at 19.00 hs. In this occasion, works and artists will be present. The works will be exhibit until September 21 from 11.00 hs. to 20.00 hs.

For more information, and to participate either as a contributor or sponsor or to buy tickets for the dinner, please call (011) 4326-6005 or send an email to eventos@expoam.com

Artists who donate their works:

REMO BIANCHEDI - SERGIO BIANCHI - LETICIA BONETTI - XIMENA COLOMBRES -MARCELO DE ANGELIS -JULIO FIERRO - DUILIO FONDA - LUISA GONZALEZ - SANTIAGO GONZALEZ QUESNEL- TACHI GÜIRALDES - MARIA ISABEL HOOFT- SOFIA HUIDOBRO - SILVANA KELM - JULIO LAVALLÉN - SEBASTIAN MASEGOSA - INES MENENDEZ BEHETY - URI NEGVI - MIGUEL OCAMPO - NATALIA ORLOWSKI - ZELMIRA PERALTA RAMOS - ERNESTO P. PESCE - GRACIELA QUIÑONES MARTÍN- EMMANUEL ROCCO CUZZI - OCTAVIO ROJO - FERNANDO ROMERO CARRANZA - JACQUELINE ROS - PATRICIA SICARDI - IGNACIO SOLÁ - RODRIGO SUÁREZ - MARTIN VILLALONGA - FRANCISCO TRAVIESO - CARLOS TUCHI -PABLO ZEL

Carrie and Juan farewell and Julie welcome party

 

The last few weeks at the Home were very intense. After living almost a year as assistants in El Arca, Carrie Smart and Juan Tobón returned home in the United States and Colombia , respectively. We threw a special farewell party for each of them, with music, dancing, shows, speeches from each of the children and, as always, lots of banners with loving messages so they never forget El Arca.

But everytime someone leaves, someone always arrives. And in this case, directly from Belgium, came Julie Degaute. She is 24 years old, studied Literature and speaks Spanish very well. She had already several experiences in the Arca back in her country because the university where she attended has a department exclusively dedicated to El Arca, its methodologies and activities. She speaks very well our language and, from the beginning, she expressed that she felt very comfortable and happy here. ¡Welcome!

Please find below, a video where Juan Tobón tells us a little bit of his experience in El Arca. It is intended mainly for all those who do not know what El Arca is about or those who would like to participate as assistants or volunteers.

Watch video

Special Olympics

On Saturday August 25, the children participated in the Special Olympics at a Parrish nearby the Home. They play all sort of games: spoon race, potato race, musical chairs, target shooting with balls, among others. All our children won several medals. ¡Congratulations to Osvaldo who won the wheelchair competition!

Do you wish to help us and you don't know how?

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