L'Arche
Welcome to the Jean Vanier Support Network
We have recently nominated Jean Vanier for some important International awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Templeton Prize and the Fellowship for Reconciliation’s Pfeffer International Peace Prize. These nominations are made in the context of a global effort to make Jean and his work better known, and to ensure its vitality.
For most of us the social and human impact of Jean Vanier is unquestionable. Unfortunately, although he is often spoken of in the same breath as Mother Teresa, he does not always enjoy widespread public recognition.
It is not easy to promote the public visibility of a man “who has built a life around celebrating what is small, simple and rejected”, and who ultimately positions himself as strongly counterculture vis a vis contemporary world values of performance and success.
We remain convinced that the heart of the message of Jean Vanier is essential to a world desperately searching for meaning. We ask you to help us make a difference, by contributing a little of your influence to tip the scale towards increased public recognition of Jean Vanier.
We hope to recruit individuals, organizations, institutions or communities throughout the world who would be ready to share, on their own networks and with the media, any news of significance concerning Jean Vanier and his work.
Please join our network by sending an email to network@jean-vanier.org
We look forward to your collaboration. Together we can affirm and support the valuable and equal place of the most vulnerable and often rejected members of our society.
Martha Bala,
network@jean-vanier.org
Board member, L’Arche International
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 Jean is a humble role model, mentor and friend who inspires through his respectfully loving each person as they are. From Mother Teresa to Pope John Paul II, Jean Vanier's life has been profoundly marked by his encounters with the great ones of this world. 'Friends in the Spirit', Mother Theresa and Jean Vanier are two beautiful human beings who accompanied each other on their respective life-missions.  Jean Vanier's philosophy was born in his coming to understand the import of the experience of human suffering. The universality and centrality of our shared fragility has the potential to unite us in commonality. At the heart of Vanier’s theology is the human desire to belong. In both senses of the term, as an author and letter-writer, Jean Vanier is a man of letters
 Jean Vanier' s struggle, started in the small village of Trosly in 1964, continues today. The road to justice and peace demands a lifetime commitment. The 135 communities of L'Arche bring together men and women with or without an intellectual disability. An international network of mutual care and community support for people affected by intellectual disabilities |