L Arche Chicago Is Bringing Together People With And Without Intellectual Disabilities

• Rosario Zavala
• Luca Badetti

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Luca Badetti, L’Arche Chicago community coordinator.

I think people with disabilities should be at the center of society. It’s good to live among people who are different from us. If we just stick with people who are what some might call “able-bodied” or “able-minded,” we’re missing a chance to open our hearts. People with disabilities need support, but we need them too. There is an invitation there to go slower, to live at the level of the heart, to realize how interdependent we are.