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Services in Thailand
Holt International partners with Holt Sahathai Foundation (HSF) in Thailand to address the needs of homeless and at-risk children. HSF was founded in 1975 and has become a leading child welfare agency in Thailand. Currently, HSF services including adoption, pregnancy counseling, foster care, educational sponsorships and outreach services for children in hospitals and orphanages.
HSF’s has two project sites: Bangkok and Nakorn Si Thammarat. In addition HSF provides consultation and support for child welfare projects in Chiang Mai and in Udon. HSF was one of the first agencies on the scene after the tsunami devastated the coast of Thailand, and now provides services to children and families in the southern province of Ranong.
HSF is licensed to place children in families through intercountry adoption by the Thai Department of Social Development and Welfare. HSF’s adoption program is well-established. Most children are cared for by foster families until the adoptive families come to bring them home.
Holt and HSF partnering together provide a wealth of services to abandoned children, and children at risk of abandonment, in Thailand.
Family Preservation Financial support, health, nutrition and education services are all HSF programs designed to help keep families together. HSF also works with government orphanages to locate birth families and provide intensive services to reunite families. More than 300 families and 1,000 children are served each year.
Single Parent/Pregnancy Counseling Services Counseling, shelter, health care and post-natal care are provided to approximately 400 single mothers each year.
Educational Sponsorship and Youth Activities Family strengthening programs provide educational sponsorships, guidance services, vocational training, a Children’s Club, field trips and camping for underprivileged youth. Four hundred children and youth ages 6 to 18 participate in this program annually.
Nutrition Services Each year milk subsidies are provided for over 500 impoverished families who cannot adequately support the nutritional needs of their children.
Foster Care Nearly all children admitted to HSF are provided a foster family until their family situation improves or they are placed in an adoptive family. Approximately 350 children are provided foster families annually.
HIV Foster Care Approximately 10 HIV-positive children are placed into specially trained foster families each year.
Developmental Stimulation Developmental stimulation activities are provided for over 4,000 children in government orphanages and to children who are in hospital pediatric wards for extended periods of time.
Intercountry Adoption HSF works with Holt International to find adoptive families for relinquished or abandoned children unable to be reunited with birth families. Approximately 40 children each year come home to Holt adoptive families in the United States.
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