Where We Work

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The work we do:

Bulgaria: Lumos was asked to provide expertise and technical support to help implement Bulgaria’s national strategy, and worked there for over a decade.
Our work in Bulgaria
Kenya: There are an estimated 43,000 children currently living in Charitable Children's Institutions in Kenya.
Our work in Kenya
Ukraine : Ukraine has among the highest number of children in institutions in Europe, with an ingrained institutional system viewed as the only solution for children at risk. Success in Ukraine is likely to have considerable influence on the deinstitutionalisation reform processes in the neighbouring countries.
Our work in Ukraine
Ethiopia : Lumos worked with partners on a new project to provide family based care to unaccompanied refugee and migrant children in the refugee camps in Shire, northern Ethiopia.
Our work in Ethiopia
Colombia : Figures from the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) suggest that there are nearly 15,000 children living in institutions in Colombia. Working with partner organisations, Lumos aims to support the transformation of the care system, moving from institutionalisation to family based care.
Our work in Colombia
Lumos Foundation USA: Lumos Foundation USA was launched in 2015 to help build political and public will in support of the US Government’s goals to strengthen families and end orphanages and other residential institutions.
Our work in Lumos Foundation USA
Brussels: Since 2010, the Brussels-based Advocacy and Campaigns team have worked to raise awareness and understanding of the harm caused to children’s development and well-being by institutionalisation with EU stakeholders such as politicians,civil servants and civil society networks.
Our work in Brussels
Greece: Lumos worked in Greece from 2015- 2020 to encourage reform of their child protection system.
Our work in Greece
Czech Republic: Lumos began work in the Czech Republic in 2008. Our impact here has been gradual, but admissions to institutions, and the numbers of children in them, have fallen.
Our work in Czech Republic
Haiti: Lumos began work in Haiti in January 2015, as part of a joint programme with key governmental and NGO partners. We are working to transform care services for vulnerable children and families in Haiti by 2030.
Our work in Haiti
Moldova : We have been working in the Republic of Moldova since 2006 in co-operation with the Moldovan Government. At that point Moldova had committed to a five-year plan to reduce the numbers of children in institutions by 50%.
Our work in Moldova
United Kingdom: Lumos' corporate headquarters are in London, United Kingdom. If you would like to get in touch with any of our teams please use the form on the contact page.
Our work in United Kingdom

A Global Organisation

While the reasons children end up in orphanages may differ, certain aspects remain the same. Extreme poverty is the main reason that most children end up in orphanages.

Our flexible model works by adapting to the cultural drivers of institutionalisation in every country that we work in. We use demonstration projects to enable the change needed to replace orphanages with community-based services. Governments in other areas can then replicate these. To reach our goal of ending institutionalisation of children by 2050, Lumos uses evidence-based models to effect change.

Latest research

INVISIBLE CHILDREN, VISIBLE HARMS - THE SCALE AND EFFECTS OF CHILD INSTITUTIONALISATION

Three major new papers published in the Lancet with Lumos’ support have shed new light on the scale of children living in institutions globally.

https://www.wearelumos.org/resources/invisible-children-visible-harms/