JK Rowling and NUIG team up for orphans

JK Rowling’s children’s charity is teaming up with NUI Galway to help millions of children unnecessarily placed in orphanages worldwide reunite with their families.

Lumos, which is named after Harry Potter’s light-giving spell, is engaging in a research partnership with the Unesco Child and Family Research Centre at NUIG in an effort to increase global momentum to transform the lives of children living in orphanages, having been separated from their families

An estimated eight million children around the world live in institutions and orphanages, despite the fact that 80% have living parents. Lumos has stated that, with support, most of these children could remain with their families.