Stories

Born with cerebral palsy in Moldova, little Maria was left in an orphanage – until she found a home with Mama Maria.

When she met Isus, Dima could immediately see what the system couldn’t: that children with disabilities need families.

Lured into an orphanage with false promises, Diego has now been reunited with his mother.

In May 2019, elections will take place across the European Union to elect Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for the next five years. Children ...

Dumitriţa is an 18-year-old Lumos Self Advocate from the Republic of Moldova. She has a passion for listening to music, likes computers and technology, and ...

An estimated eight million children still live in institutions across the world. Deinstitutionalisation involves strengthening and developing services to prevent children being separated from families. ...

7,000 people in Bulgaria are denied the right to have a job, get married, or make decisions about their lives - simply because they have ...

Foster care is changing the lives of vulnerable children in Bulgaria. When Renetta met her foster child Ronie*, who has cerebral palsy, the girl had ...

A group of Bulgarian self-advocates created a cookery book to coincide with World Youth Skills Day 2018, for young deinstitutionalised people who had never been ...