At 6am on Wednesday, February 7th, Alla Soroka our Project Manager and I climb into a wide bodied, dark blue, diesel powered Opel station wagon, our BlaBlaCar (yes, really, that 's what this kind of inner city car is called) to travel from Odessa, Ukraine to Chisinau, Moldova. We have a meeting with the directors of the European and Ukraine operations of the Lumos Foundation. Lumos was started by J.K. Roling in 2006 to deinstitutionalize children globally. https://www.weare

With special thanks to Board Member, Pete McGuire, and aided by board member and wordsmith, Tina Pacheco White, who coined "Children deserve a life grounded in peace and dignity;" I have been writing our vision, mission, values and building a new website. https://robertgam.wixsite.com/mysite WHAT WE HAVE, SPANS OUR WORK FROM YOUTH IN ORPHANAGES TO FAMILIES DISPLACED BY THE WAR. Vision: Vulnerable youth and families in Ukraine living in peace and dignity. Mission: To empower