Where do adults with intellectual disabilities go when their parents can no longer care for them?
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Without our help, these individuals often end up in institutions. Intellectually disabled adults can live productive lives, working and contributing to society, but they cannot live alone. That's where Marian Homes, a project of Fairfax Knights of Columbus, comes in. We have purchased and remodeled seven homes in Fairfax County, VA to enable adults in the county with intellectual disabilities to live independently with others once their parents can no longer care for them.
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While we are proud of the nearly forty individuals for whom we have provided group housing, there are still over 1,000 other individuals in the county who need our help. Your donation ensures more individuals have a home to go to when their parents can no longer care for them or when the facility they are in closes down. Through your generous donation, we are able to provide these adults a place to call home.
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Our Seventh House
Dedicated July 11, 2020
We celebrated the opening of our seventh home for people with intellectual disabilities, July 11, 2020. The new Mother of Good Counsel House in Fairfax, VA will soon be home to five women. Multiple companies and organizations donated more than $100,000 in labor and materials to renovate the home for the residents. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge blessed the home and cut the ribbon at a socially distanced ceremony. Read more here
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