Growing interest, a longer wait...
In recent years, growing interest among prospective families has led to significant increase in international adoption applications to the Philippines. At the same time, more families within the Philippines are adopting children domestically. While great news for children in need of families, this has also stalled the overall adoption process. With so many families already waiting to be matched, the Philippines has temporarily suspended acceptance of new applications from larger agencies until the waitlist shortens.

Ambassadors for older children...
In the spring of 2011, Holt International sent a group of adoption ambassadors to the Philippines to meet a special group of children between the ages of 10 and 14. The ambassadors returned to their communities, committed to finding and supporting potential adoptive families for these older children.

So far, Holt has had great success finding families for the children on the first ambassador trip. In the fall of 2012, another group of ambassadors will travel to meet a new group of children – also older, also waiting for loving families of their own.

Children recently home from Philippines

To learn more about the Ambassador Program, please click here. If you have already received an Ambassador Program username and password, click here to login.

To learn more about the many different ways Holt serves children and families in the Philippines, click here.