Children Need Families Not Orphanages

www.wearelumos.org

“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 quickly forges a bond with loving parents - and because of this bond the brain develops with remarkable speed and complexity. But this picture of childhood can be a fragile one. Conflict and disaster can destroy the foundations of family life… once a child enters an orphanage, a very different picture of childhood can emerge.”

Listen to Lumos Founder and President J.K. Rowling talk about the impact of life in an orphanage in our new animated film, Children Need Families Not Orphanages.

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