LIGHT-UP INTERNATIONAL e.V. is a privately run NGO. It was founded in Berlin by a team of young people aspiring to improve the well-being of street children and/or children living in socially disadvantaged families, who are deprived of the childhood they deserve. Article 27 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes “the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child’s physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development.”