Supporting the delivery of Lumos Foundation?s organizational strategy (360G-CR-2816221)

Lumos?s vision is to end the use of orphanages and institutions for vulnerable children around the world by 2050, and ensure that all future generations of children can be raised in loving families moving forward. 8 million children worldwide are living in institutions which deny children individual love and care, can damage brain development and destroy their understanding of right and wrong. More than 90% of these children are not orphans - most have families who love them and want them, but they are driven into institutions because of poverty and discrimination on the grounds of disability or ethnicity. This is a violation of their human rights and the effects can last a lifetime. Lumos works to transform outdated systems that drive families apart, and they do this in partnership with governments, professionals and carers, communities, families and children. Together with their partners, they replace institutions with community-based services that provide children with access to health, education and social care tailored to their individual needs. This supports families to provide the loving care their children need to develop to their full potential and build a positive future for themselves. Lumos works in Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America through programmes that prove that de-institutionalisation can be achieved in local cultures and circumstances - and can be scaled up and sustained. They support children and their families through the complex and sensitive process of leaving institutions and orphanages and to be reunited; and through emergency intervention, to save the lives of children in very poor quality institutions at risk through illness, malnutrition or abuse. To compliment this they work through research, policy work and training to influence international institutions, governments, local authorities and other charities to support de-institutionalisation. Since 2009, due to Lumos? work, more than 20,000 children and young people have been reunited with families or placed in family-style settings where they can develop to their potential, or have been prevented from entering institutions. Lumos have prevented nearly 15,000 children from admission to harmful institutions.