JK Rowling: I thought I was going to snatch a child The writer has donated millions of pounds to Lumos, which aims to improve children's care in some of Europe's poorest countries, including Moldova, Ukraine and Romania. The charity has already re-homed thousands of children who were in inadequate facilities. Rowling said of another visit: "The one incident that absolutely killed me was a little girl with physical disabilities who had been put into the institution and used to ask for her mother. The nurse would go outside and ring the girl and pretend to be her mother. Utterly heartbreaking. The author says she is now planning to extend Lumos's work to Britain. In the rare interview she also spoke about how she still worries about money despite regularly appearing on lists of the world's richest women. "Funnily enough it bears no relation to what is in your bank account, it is purely emotional," she said of the feeling of wealth. I was as poor as it's possible to be in this country. The key phrase is "in this country" because we have a welfare state. I remember not eating so my daughter would eat... nights when there was literally no money, when I had one Rich Tea biscuit and that was dinner.