Lumos voices

Education is essential to child development, not only filling young minds with knowledge of the world and the opportunities it offers but also helping to ...

n the summer of 2015 the Czech Republic signed The Lanzarote Convention – the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual ...

On Orphan Sunday, November 8th, churches and congregations across the United States and the world will join in prayer and support for the world’s orphans, ...

Short-term foster care came into existence in the Czech Republic in 2013. With a new law, the government created professional foster-carers to achieve a key ...

A group of children in a residential special school crowd around us when we visit, pulling at our clothes and hair, craving our attention and ...

"I lived for five years in an institution. The time I spent there seemed like an eternity. I felt like I was in a dark ...

My first job, as a young Residential Social Worker in Sheffield, Northern England, involved supporting very young mothers and babies to stay together. It brought ...

My visit to the foreign orphanage was not supposed to be upsetting, or not as far as the staff was concerned.

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 ...

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 ...