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Lumos' CEO, Georgette Mulheir's Ted Talk: The tragedy of orphanages
Our CEO, Georgette Mulheir, gave this talk 'The tragedy of orhanages' at a Ted salon event in May 2012.Language Undefined Cover photo: Video URL:...
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J.K. Rowling: This is Lumos
Lumos' founder and life president, J.K. Rowling, on how Lumos works to end the institutionalisation of children worldwide. Language Undefined Cover photo: Video URL:...
View ArticleNatalia's story
Cse study: Natalia is a mother from Moldova who can no longer feed her son and is given no alternative but to send him to an institution. Language Undefined Video URL:...
View ArticleInclusive Education
Elvira Carp, a teacher from Moldova, talks about the benefits to children of inclusive education and how Lumos is supporting the development of inclusive education in Moldova.Language Undefined Video...
View ArticleBehind the Walls
25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lumos explodes the myth that orphanages are full of orphans. Our new film, Behind the Walls reminds us of the desolation of life in institutions and...
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Safeguarding Children by Monitoring and Improving Standards of Social Care
Replacing residential children’s institutions with community-based services, enabling children to live in families with appropriate support, is a fundamental principle underpinning Lumos’ work.However,...
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A home for a new life
A group of Lumos’ self-advocate children from Moldova, who had themselves experienced institutionalisation, answered these questions by creating this short film, ‘A home for a new life’. This powerful...
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Voices Against Institutions
"I would like to tell you why there should not be institiutions" - A film created and written by our Lumos self-advocates. Language Undefined Cover photo: Video URL:...
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Exposing the Link Between Trafficking and Institutions
London hosted a wonderful Olympics and Paralympics in the summer of 2012, the same year that Poland and Ukraine hosted the Euro 2012 football championship. For most people, these events are all about...
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From Orphanages to Families
“A child’s life is so much more than the sum of its parts ‐ and the love a family brings holds everything together. From the very beginning, a child thrives on individual care and attention. A baby...
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Help children with disabilities go to school by supporting our pioneering...
Last year, Lumos raised $30,000 on Indiegogo to build a first-of-its kind Special Education Unit (SEU) in Ialoveni, Moldova. This unit will ensure that children with disabilities no longer be...
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An interview with three self-advocates from the Czech Republic
Shaun Webster is an International Project Worker at CHANGE. He works alongside Lumos to ensure that children in Eastern Europe are supported to live within their communities, rather than in...
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J.K. Rowling: This is Lumos
Lumos' founder and life president, J.K. Rowling, on how Lumos works to end the institutionalisation of children worldwide. Language Undefined Cover photo: Video URL:...
View ArticleReuniting families
Language Undefined Maria and her son were reunited by Lumos. See her story here. Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFvQA2RxpnoVid thumbnail:...
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Supporting Vulnerable Families
One important area in closing down institutions is to stem the flow of new children entering the institutions and orphanages in the first place. Many children are abandoned in institutions and so...
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Turning Words into Action
Our Turning Words in to Action project, carried out between 2011 and 2013 brought together children and young people with intellectual disabilities, their parents, policy makers and health and...
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Children need Families not Orphanages
“A child’s life is so much more than the sum of its parts ‐ and the love a family brings holds everything together. From the very beginning, a child thrives on individual care and attention. A baby...
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Barriers to Changing Systems of Care
The process of moving from a system that relies heavily on institutions to care for children, to one that provides a range of responses at the level of the family and community is hugely challenging....
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Setting Standards in Social Services
The process of deinstitutionalisation involves the establishment of many different services across the country – such as family support services, foster care, small group homes and community based...
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Training teachers
Traditionally in the Republic of Moldova, children with special educational needs were marginalised. To reform the residential child care system the education system had to be modernised too. In 2010,...
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