I meet Miia Lusa and her wonderful dog Irmeli in the corner room of Café Lähde. Only a couple weeks ago, Miia started her job as the Uusimaa Cultural well-being spot project...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Amelia and Okko
Amelia Isley. Photo: Jukka Leppikangas
Lapinlahden Lähde is also interesting to young people in school. Ninth-graders doing their work practice program come to get to...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Yuki Klink and Shihomi Homma
Since halfway through August you might have heard happy exclamations in the halls of the Lapinlahti main building: Ohayoo gozaimasu, konnichiwa! Beautiful kimonos—or t-shirts...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Atso
I have been volunteering in “Lappari” incidentally since 2019, and more regularly since the start of this year. At the start I sometimes helped at the café in the...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Veera
In my studies to be a bachelor of Social Services I was able to do my internship at Lapinlahden Lähde, Pro Lapinlahti mental health association.
I got interested in the...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Helli
The sunny and energetic Helli has been in a work trial in Lapinlahden Lähde as an event coordinator.
“Before I came here, I had a long career in printing, where I...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Ilona Rautiainen
My name is Ilona Rautiainen, and I have found the answer to the question “What should I do with my life”.
It happened for the first time when I was attending a...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Inari Aikio-Kytömäki
Inari Aikio-Kytömäki is a Steiner educator and an art multitalent: she paints, writes, and goes through thousands of photos—results of long city walks—at her workshop....
Meet Lapinlahti people: Jon Puolakka
The freezing temperatures and darkness of midwinter sometimes let the mind wander back to the warm summer days and nights at Lapinlahti, and the atmosphere that was influenced...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Luna Valkama
Luna Valkama, who has worked at Café Lähde and is studying in Spesia vocational school, has written a wonderful piece about her life and autism diagnosis, and now shares it...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Amjad Sher
We meet with the busy, but happy Amjad in the Aleksis Kivi’s corridor. He is one of MIITTI-project’s carrying forces, and has been a part of it since 2017—first as...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Eva-Liisa Kajas, Kristina Pappila, Irma Pillai, Marja Halla-Seppälä and Helena Lahtinen
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Cheerful chatter echoes through the hallways of Lapinlahden Lähde, when Eeva-Liisa Kajas, Kristina Pappila, Irma “Ippa” Pillai, Marja “Maiju”...
Meet Lapinlahti people: John Franzen & Jennifer Ramirez
Our series travels from the Baghdadi Alaa to the Lapinlahti communications power duo, Jonh Franzén and Jennifer Ramirez. They have recently moved into the house with their...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Alaa Altamimi
I am Alaa Altamimi and I come from Bagdad, Irak. I came to Finland as a refugee in 2015 because of my political background. Tending to plants is my passion, I have a tropical...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Petteri Prioteasa
The idyllic, late 19th century Venetsia building on the Lapinlahti shore has been in multiple kinds of use throughout its history: for example as a laundry, a bakery,...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Max Zenger
Music is an integral part of the broad art and culture activities in Lapinlahti. In the halls of the main building you might catch sounds of singing and instrument practice...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Paula Talvikki
Today, when you visit the main building in Lapinlahti, you can see that some corridors are less empty than before, and are decorated with works of art. The reason for this is...
Meet Lapinlahti people: Tiina Törö
Have you ever noticed a grey-haired woman sitting in Café Lähde with a sign in front of her that says “Saa istua seuraksi”? (Sit down with me) Tiina Törö is a...


















