Pahkla Camphilli Küla began in early 1992, and is a life-sharing community together with adults who have special needs. It is part of the world-wide Camphill Movement, begun in 1939 by the Austrian physician Dr.Karl König (1902 - 1966) in Aberdeen, Scotland. Today there are approximately 100 Camphill centres in twenty countries around the world, all dedicated to forming healthy and healing social communities together with children, youngsters (trainees), adults, and/or old people.
The Camphill Movement strives to create communities in which people with special needs can live, learn and work together with others in healthy social relationships, based on mutual respect. Camphill draws its inspiration and deepest content from the antroposophical insigths of the Austrian philosopher/educator Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925), and is based on the acceptance of the spiritual uniqueness of each human being, regardless of disability, religious, national or racial background.