In February 2019, Lumos Youth Advocates attended the Zero Conference in Vienna, which this year focused on independent living and political participation.

In 2018, Lumos Youth Advocates convened in London for their annual Youth Forum meeting. Every year, Lumos, the children's charity founded by J.K. Rowling, provides ...

It’s hard to believe there are people in the world who deliberately recruit children into orphanages in order to make money. Yet running an orphanage ...

Today, Lumos and the British Embassy in Panama brought together global and regional child protection experts to discuss strategies to tackle the institutionalisation of children ...

How far has the world really moved on since Dickens wrote Oliver Twist’s tale? And do Dickensian orphanages still exist elsewhere?

"It was 2010, I was just finishing my A levels and had two months before starting university. I knew I wanted to go away and ...

Lumos welcomes the Department for International Development (DfID) latest funding guidance, which explicitly states that UK Aid Direct will not fund orphanages and institutions. Published ...

On New Year’s Eve we found ourselves in Houston, visiting families for whom Immigrant Families Together (IFT) had posted bond or has been supporting since ...

The BBC’s File on 4 programme highlighted the vast sums of international funding that goes to orphanages in Uganda, many of which are operating illegally. ...

As a mother, shivers run up my spine when I hear of any child suffering. Nelson Mandela once said that we can measure a society ...