Stories

Elena was initially hesitant to leave her home in Ukraine. However, when it became clear that her home city of Odessa was going to be ...

When Lumos met Viktor (11) and Veronika (14) from Ukraine in 2019, the siblings had been in a boarding school for several years. Their family ...

Maria says the best thing about her life with her mother is that she lives ‘in a family’. In a family, she says, she has ...

When Maria was 11, she and her three siblings were taken into care. Their family is a loving one, but they’ve been through a lot. ...

Camilo was 7 when he was taken into care and had to live in an institution. We helped reunite him with his birth family.

After two years living in an institution, with our help, Andrei and David were reunited with their mum. We supported her so she could not ...

“I was a little problematic before,” admits 18-year-old Felipe. “I was disobedient. I help my dad now, and I help my brothers in what I ...

Meet Grace. From her early work to keep children off the streets in Kenya, to her determination to stand up for struggling mothers and prevent ...

María lives in Bogotá, Colombia, with her five children. When the government placed Maria’s children in an institution, we worked with Maria to give her ...