Lumos, the international children’s organisation founded by J.K. Rowling, is celebrating two decades of transforming care systems for children and families around the world – marking a major milestone of having helped more than 280,000 children and young people grow up in safe, loving families instead of institutions.

J.K. Rowling, Lumos Founder and Life President said:

Twenty years ago, I founded Lumos after learning about millions of children worldwide living locked away from their families. For 20 years, Lumos has been illuminating a better path – working with partners to reform care systems, prevent family breakdown and reunite children with families. We’ve achieved a lot, but there is still much more to do so that every child grows up in a safe and loving family.

As Lumos enters its third decade, the organisation will accelerate proven approaches – preventing family separation, strengthening community-based services, and supporting care reform worldwide – to ensure that every child can grow up in a safe and loving family. 

In the next 10 years, Lumos will support more children in more countries, more quickly, by:

• Enabling 500,000 children in care to return to family-based care; and
• Preventing 10 million children from experiencing family breakdown and separation – so that they can thrive in their own families.

Head to wearelumos.org for more information.