Family Voices

Elena was initially hesitant to leave her home in Ukraine. However, when it became clear that her home city of Odessa was going to be ...

When Lumos met Viktor (11) and Veronika (14) from Ukraine in 2019, the siblings had been in a boarding school for several years. Their family ...

Maria says the best thing about her life with her mother is that she lives ‘in a family’. In a family, she says, she has ...

After two years living in an institution, with our help, Andrei and David were reunited with their mum. We supported her so she could not ...

María lives in Bogotá, Colombia, with her five children. When the government placed Maria’s children in an institution, we worked with Maria to give her ...

We first met 20-year-old Denis* when he was still in an institution. We worked hard to help him leave the residential institution, then continued to ...

When his father struggled to care for Manuel* and his two brothers, the government sent them to an institution. After being there for over a ...

Many parents in Haiti are promised the best for their children when they entrust orphanage owners with their children’s care. But instead of the promised ...

When the coronavirus crisis hit Ukraine, the government announced that almost 75% of the children living in orphanages would be returned home. There was no ...

Isus lives with severe intellectual and physical disabilities and receives full-time care from his loving foster mother, Dima. The story of how Dima and Lumos ...