By 2050 all children will grow up in loving, nurturing, protective families.
Most children in orphanages have families – families who simply need help raising their children.
By 2050, our mission is to end institutionalisation around the world. Everything that we do aims to achieve this ambitious goal.
Thanks to Lumos, over 31,500 children have left – or been prevented from entering – harmful institutions and orphanages since 2009.
To create meaningful change, we partner with advocates and allies at every level: from international decision-makers to children and their families.
Lumos supports the empowerment of children to become young spokespeople, especially those young people who live with intellectual disabilities or are members of other marginalised groups.
Lumos' Global Training and Advisory Team provides a wide range of technical assistance to local Lumos programmes worldwide.
In 2012, a twelve year old boy, Veliko, joined a group of young spokespeople at his school. Veliko has intellectual disabilities and this group, initiated by Lumos, included other children like him.
There are many people that have a great story to tell about how Lumos' work has touched their lives.
