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"I would like to tell you why there should not be institiutions" - A film created and written by our Lumos self-advocates.

FOR more than 20 years, in 23 countries, I have helped to move disadvantaged and disabled children out of institutions and so-called orphanages, where their ...

Lumos, the international children’s charity founded by J.K. Rowling, has welcomed the publication of an authoritative international survey of scientific evidence proving that life in ...

A group of Lumos’ self-advocates from Moldova, who had themselves experienced institutionalisation, answered these questions by creating this short film, ‘A home for a new ...

Five years ago today, my family and I had just buried my father. Hundreds attended his funeral. We had the time we needed to mourn ...

Children who are placed in institutions or so called ‘orphanages’ are not only deprived of a family life but, very often, are also denied the ...

In December 2014, Lumos Founder and President J.K. Rowling wrote about why she founded Lumos, and how the investments of major donors and international aid ...

In Northern Transylvania, Christmas is extraordinary. Picture-postcard mountains and pine forest, covered with a metre of snow. The air crisp and cold. Horse-drawn sleighs drive ...

Children in Moldova have celebrated the success of educational reforms which mean thousands of pupils with disabilities and special needs are now taught in mainstream ...

“They hide us away… and treat us like animals. But we are not animals. We are human beings. And we have rights”. EACH year, on ...