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NewsFirst Lady of Ukraine makes commitment to end orphanagesFriday January 20, 2023“We must completely get rid of classical orphanages with educators and directors, giving all children the opportunity to grow up in families.”
NewsThe Orphanage Business ModelMonday January 9, 2023In this short video, we shine light on how the orphanage business model works - and explain what you can do to help break the cycle.
NewsLumos donates over £20,000 in specialist equipment to vulnerable Ukrainian childrenFriday November 18, 2022Lumos held a special event to mark our donation of interactive equipment worth almost UAH 1 million (approx. £22,000) and other educational materials to 28 Inclusive Resource Centres in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.
NewsUkraine’s institutionalised children deserve a better futureTuesday October 11, 2022The United Nations Child Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities issued a joint statement at the end of last week expressing grave concerns over the plight of Ukraine's children with disabilities in institutions, calling for urgent action.
NewsLumos CEO responds to UN warning on abuse of disabled children in Ukraine’s orphanagesFriday August 12, 2022The war in Ukraine has brought to light, as well as exacerbated, the grave harms experienced by children in orphanages. We cannot allow this to continue.
NewsLumos expands emergency response to OdessaWednesday June 1, 2022Odessa is known by many to be one of the major targets of the Russian war in Ukraine. It has suffered bombardment and loss, but it is also a city that has opened its homes and services to thousands of internally displaced families.
NewsLumos joins call for a moratorium on intercountry adoption in response to the conflict in UkraineMonday May 30, 2022We're watching in horror as already-vulnerable children and families in Ukraine are now finding themselves in the most terrible of circumstances.
NewsPainting a brighter picture for children: Art exhibition raises funds for LumosThursday October 7, 2021Fine art meets fiction as a Harry Potter-inspired exhibition raises funds to support Lumos’ fight to improve lives for children globally.
NewsChildren need families, not orphanagesFriday September 4, 2015The new Lumos animation draws on the decades of research that shows that being raised in large, impersonal institutions deprives children of loving, sustained adult engagement, and impairs child development.
NewsJ.K. Rowling: International aid can help end the institutionalisation of children ‘in our lifetime’Tuesday November 25, 2014Author launches #LetsTalkLumos campaign for eight million children in institutions or orphanages, of whom over 80 per cent have living parents.