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NewsJ.K. Rowling and the child in the cageTuesday March 29, 2016JK Rowling was reading The Sunday Times one weekend in 2004 when she came across a picture of a child looking distressed, perhaps screaming.
NewsChildren need families, not orphanagesFriday September 4, 2015The new Lumos animation draws on the decades of research that shows that being raised in large, impersonal institutions deprives children of loving, sustained adult engagement, and impairs child development.
NewsVeliko at UNESCO Youth Forum 2015Thursday June 11, 2015Watch self-advocate Veliko Velikov here as he explains how he belives we can build a bridge to inclusion using the individual gifts of all children.
NewsJ.K. Rowling lights up the Empire State Building to launch Lumos USAThursday April 9, 2015J.K. Rowling lit up the iconic Empire State Building in New York to mark the launch of Lumos USA as part of the NGO's global mission to bring light to the lives of children living in orphanages and institutions around the world.
NewsWhy we need to see an end to orphanages in our lifetimeWednesday April 8, 2015"Another day, another children’s institution and I was shown into a room full of totally silent babies. They had learned that crying brought no comfort and their lack of interest in eye contact was eerie."
NewsJ.K Rowling: Isn’t it time we left orphanages to fairytales?Wednesday December 17, 2014"It was a black-and-white photograph in a newspaper. It showed a small boy, locked in a caged bed in a residential institution."
NewsJ.K. Rowling: International aid can help end the institutionalisation of children ‘in our lifetime’Tuesday November 25, 2014Author launches #LetsTalkLumos campaign for eight million children in institutions or orphanages, of whom over 80 per cent have living parents.