We Come Bearing Gifts - The Story of Daohaeko Support Network

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We Come Bearing Gifts - The Story of Deohaeko Support Network

This book is a story. It is a story of the achievements, struggles, and successes of a group of twelve families who joined together in a common mission in the fall of 1989. In order to achieve their vision of a positive future for their sons and daughters who have a disability, these families designed and built a 105-unit co-operative housing apartment building where ten of the daughters and sons could live.

It is the intention of the founding families and members of the co-operative that the community strive to be one which welcomes and includes all of its members in the life of the co-operative and where neighbours come to know and support one another.

In writing this book, Janet Klees has laid out patterns and order that the families discovered in the midst of seeming chaos. It would be a mistake to believe that they planned out the patterns and organized their ideas and beliefs before embarking on the various parts of this venture. In fact, this is an account in progress of a living and breathing community. Many of the patterns that Klees describes, or the order that the families discerned them, could only be identified in retrospect. The day-to-day work of this group and of this burgeoning community involves much imperfection, stress, and muddiness. It is, after all a very human endeavour. As John McKnight, well known community builder and professor at Chicago's Northwestern University, has noted, building community is different from professional-client relationships, and in the community mould [things are] messy, creative, but with a capacity to both offer and receive the gift of hospitality.

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