Young Advocates

“This helps us make new friends, gives us opportunities to talk about our lives here, share our experience, get advice from other children from Ukraine ...

Earlier this month, Lumos organised a summer school for children aged between 12 and 15 from Moldova and Ukraine.

At Lumos we believe that children and young people should be at the heart of any discussion around alternative care. They’re the experts, and they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hi my name is Veronika, I'm 18 years old and I live in Czech Republic with my mum and foster sister Vendy. I study Secondary ...

Veliko and Mihaela, self-advocates from Bulgaria, attended the Zero Project conference in Vienna with Lumos at the end of February 2015.

Verca, Vendy and Nicky are three young self-advocates from Czech Republic who presented with Lumos at the Zero Conference in Vienna in February.