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Lumos launches project to tackle human trafficking in Haiti
A nationwide four-year project funded by USAID, the BEST partnership aims to tackle human trafficking in Haiti.
Bonnie Wright and Evanna Lynch visit Lumos programmes in Haiti
In 2016 Lumos Ambassadors Bonnie Wright and Evanna Lynch visited Haiti where 300,000 children are currently living in orphanages.
Orphanages in Haiti
"To keep at home full-time it costs about 6-10 times less than keeping them in an institution". Georgette Mulheir explains why institutional 'care' is a ...
First National Conference on Trafficking in Persons in Haiti
On Wednesday 21 June 2017, we launched the first National Conference on the Trafficking in Persons in Haiti. The National Committee aims to address a ...
The beginning of the end for orphanage ‘care’ in Haiti
Lumos starts work on joint programme to reform care services for vulnerable children and families in Haiti by 2030. Haiti will this week play host ...
Eugene Jr Guillaume, Lumos Haiti Project Manager, Honoured as Human Rights Hero
Lumos is delighted to announce that our Project Manager for Haiti, Eugene Jr Guillaume, has been identified as a ‘Human Rights Hero’ by the US ...
EU and Haitian Government brought together by Lumos to fight child trafficking
SENIOR European Union figures will this week meet representatives from the Haitian Government in a ground-breaking event in Brussels aimed at generating EU support for ...
Voluntourism: Perpetuating, not alleviating, the exploitation of vulnerable children
Images of desperate children flooded the media when a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010. Moved by those images, I wanted not only to help ...
After the hurricane: helping Haiti rebuild families and communities
As Hurricane Matthew hurtled towards Haiti last Tuesday, my team and I were hoping the storm would change trajectory or lose some of its force ...
Lumos CEO To Deliver September 15th Briefing on the Worsening State of Haiti’s Orphanages
New research shows a strengthening link between for-profit orphanages and child trafficking.
Learning the truth about Haitian Orphanages
I first travelled to Haiti in 2003, age 22, as a volunteer and found myself living in an orphanage and taking care of more than ...
Child exploitation in Haiti’s orphanages
On June 21-22, 2017, Haiti – ranked eighth in the world for human trafficking – held its first annual conference to combat trafficking. The Haitian ...
Lumos statement on safeguarding and reporting
At Lumos, the protection of children is at the very heart of our work and we are profoundly shocked and dismayed by the recent reports ...
Orphanages and child trafficking are linked – international recognition of this will change lives
What does Freedom Day mean in Haiti?
On the 5th of February, the Haitian police broke up a trafficking ring at Kaliko Beach – a stunning Caribbean resort that is a hotspot ...
The launch of the Task Force to combat trafficking in Haiti
The National Committee to Combat Trafficking in Persons, an interministerial structure whose mission is to coordinate the fight against trafficking in persons in Haiti, jointly ...
Devastating orphanage fire kills trapped children
The terrible death of 15 children in the orphanage of L’Eglise de Comprehension de la bible, in Fermathe Haiti brings into sharp focus the terrible ...
NGOs Ramp up Push for Better UN Data
Desperately poor and bereft at the death of his wife, Daniel’s father made the only choice he could for his six-year-old son. But Daniel, afraid ...
Five years after the earthquake, Haiti’s children need families, not orphanages
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 ...
Incomplete data fails millions of the world’s most vulnerable children
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promise to ‘leave no-one behind’ but gaps in global data mean some of the most vulnerable of the world’s ...