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Group of children and caregivers in India gather for a picture

Family Strengthening

Notes from the Field: March 2024

A girl in Uganda poses with a baby calf

Family Strengthening

Life Is Better With a Cow

A social worker and child take a photo with animal masks on

Children Who’ve Touched Our Hearts

Little girl stands next to her mother and holds a framed deed to a house

Family Strengthening

A New Home and a New Stove

Philippines assessment visit Feb 2023

Adoption

Holt’s Unique Adoption Program in the Philippines Is Growing

Little girl in a red dress holds a yellow blanket close and smiles

Family Strengthening

Peaceful, Warm Nights

Adoptee Katelyn Dixon with high school friends at Disneyland

Adoption

Goodbyes, I’m Not Too Good

Family group stands in front of blue house with pink curtains

Family Strengthening

A New Home for Winter

Group of children on a playground holds up hands and smile!

Family Strengthening

Notes from the Field: February 2024

Chinese adoptee Katelyn Dixon smiles as she poses at a scenic overlook of the city

Adoption

The Challenges and Beauty of Adoption

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In 2025, Holt sponsors and donors helped:
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  • 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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