Family Voices

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 ...

Foster care is changing the lives of vulnerable children in Bulgaria. When Renetta met her foster child Ronie*, who has cerebral palsy, the girl had ...

Last year, actor and reporter Ruben Reuter visited Moldova with a film crew from CBBC to learn what life is like for children with disabilities ...

For some families it is grinding poverty and the absence of any local care support that forces them to institutionalise a beloved child.

Viorica’s son, Daniel, is 12 years old. He is severely disabled with epilepsy and needs a high level of care. Viorica has made many sacrifices ...

Cristina and Igor have intellectual disabilities. When they were very young, their parents were told by doctors that they would need to go into an ...

As soon as he was born, Sonya’s baby was taken from her.

Maria’s son has an intellectual disability. She was told that he would be better off in an institution.

On 25 April 2012 Lumos held a press conference in Bulgaria, together with the State Agency for Child Protection and the Agency for Social Assistance, ...