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Archive

Author: Guest

Adoption

Where Are They Now: Seven Years After the Earthquake

Adoption

21 Books for Internationally Adopted Kids

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Adoption

Supporting Your Child in Today’s Racial Climate

Adoption

How to Strengthen Your Child’s Self-Worth By Simply ‘Being With’

Family Strengthening

Merry Christmas, From Aynalem to Degefech

Adoption

Dear Younger Me, Let Your Heart Be Broken

Adoption

A Story I Won’t Stop Sharing

Adoption

Adoption: An Adventure Tale

Orphans & Vulnerable Children

A Place of Love and Healing

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Adoption

If You Know Us And Love Us…

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In 2025, Holt sponsors and donors helped:
  • Improve the lives of 1,114,231 children, family members and other individuals around the world
  • Unite 181 children with adoptive families through international or in-country adoption
  • Care for 3,794 children in orphanages, group homes or foster families 
  • 40,235 children remain or reunite with their birth families
  • Provided 6,884 post-adoption services for adoptees and families

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