The Children's High Level Group, a charity co-founded by J.K. Rowling, has launched a new name and a new goal. Lumos will be the new name and will be chaired by J.K. Rowling and strive to help end the institutionalisation of children throughout Central and Eastern Europe, with its focus moving from Romania to the Czech Republic and the Republic of Moldova.
The press release has the following from J.K. Rowling:
Twenty years ago, as Communist regimes across Europe toppled, harrowing images of Europe's hidden children began to emerge. Thousands upon thousands of children were living in vast, depressing institutions – malnourished and often maltreated, with little access to the outside world. Slowly governments have begun to transform care systems. Real and lasting change takes time, but today we are putting down a marker and calling for significantly more progress in the next twenty years to ensure that eventually no children are living in, or at risk of entering, such institutions.
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