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Top 2025 Stories About Caring for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children

Revisit the top stories about Holt donor-supported efforts to care for orphaned and vulnerable children around the world in 2025!

Growing Up in an Orphanage

Across Vietnam, Holt sponsors and donors provide support and care to children growing up in residential care centers. Each child — who they are, why they are here, and the type of care they require — is different. We invite you to meet the children living at one facility in Vietnam, to learn about their lives, and their hope for the future.

A foster mother and child are reunited

Fostering a Legacy of Love in Korea

On the eve of Holt’s foster care program transitioning to the Korean government in July 2025, Paul Kim, Holt’s program director of Korea, reflects on 60 years of foster families’ incredible service and nurturing care for children.

With Wings to Fly

Since 2018, Holt donors have supported the Bluebird Program, which helps prepare youth who have grown up in orphanages in Korea for the transition to independent living once they age out of institutional care. Here’s an overview of the Bluebird Program — and several others — that you help support.

Feeding a child in an orphanage in Cambodia

A Nutrition Breakthrough for Children in Cambodia

In Cambodia, Holt is partnering with the organization Plants-Earth-Life to transform nutrition and feeding for children, beginning where the need — and opportunity for impact — is greatest: in orphanages.

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Help a Child in Greatest Need

Give emergency help to a child who is hungry, sick or living in dangerous conditions. Your gift will provide the critical food, medical care, safety and more they need when they need it the most.

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