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What makes Camphill communities different is the emphasis on mutual support. That’s because Camphill recognises that everyone has abilities and empowers and supports all individuals to use their particular abilities in their communities. So everyone contributes to community life and the wellbeing of fellow community members in his or her own way. Everyone supports each other. In Camphill schools and colleges, pupils and students support each other while being supported by staff and volunteers. So they are not just schools or colleges, they are communities. In Camphill adult communities, community members support each other, living and working together as equals. So a community member with disabilities, for example, may support new volunteers by showing them how to do a particular job in a community workplace while receiving help from a support staff and volunteers.
Mutual support runs through every day at every Camphill community – people of all abilities contributing whatever they can to community life. The emphasis is not on ‘service providers’ and ‘service users’ - just people living, learning and working together as a community. Real inclusion in a real community.
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