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We believe that children should be raised in a safe and caring environment.

We believe that poverty, disability or ethnicity should never be a reason to lock a child away.

We believe that every child has the right to a real childhood.

We are dedicated to transforming the lives of disadvantaged children by facilitating the end of institutional care for good.

Twenty years
on

On 9 November 2009, celebrations across Europe marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the trigger for a series of revolutions that signaled the end of communism in Europe. While some were relatively peaceful, the revolution in Romania culminated in the...

How one picture
sparked a passion

In June 2004, J K Rowling saw a photograph in The Sunday Times that had a profound effect on her. In this article she wrote for The Sunday Times in February 2006, she explains how it sparked a passion to end the institutionalisation of children: “You asked me...

A welcome
act

Lumos warmly welcomes the announcement by the government of the Czech Republic that it has approved the National Action Plan (NAP) on reforming children’s services. We are proud to have been involved in the development of the policy document for the reform of...