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Adoptees

At Holt International, we value the unique experience and insights of adoptees and strive to elevate the adoptee voice within the adoption community.

Read stories written by and about adoptees that explore topics such as searching for birth family, racial and adoptee identity, post-adoption services such as Holt adoptee heritage tours and camps, and personal thoughts and feelings about the unique experience of growing up adopted.

Adoptees at an adoptee reception before Holt history display

Adoptee Reception Held at Holt Headquarters in Eugene

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Adoption

A Thank You Note From Adoptee Theodore Boylan  

Adoption

A “Love” Story

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Adoption

How International Adoption Has Changed and Why

Susie Doig and family with National Adoption Month badge

Adoption

National Adoption Month 2022: Lifetime Adoption Services

  • International Adoption

  • October 27, 2022

Adoption

How One Chinese Adoptee is Helping Others Connect With Their Culture

Adoption

Introducing Carmen, the Holt Adult Adoptee Community Outreach Coordinator!

maggie grout thinking huts founder in front of first printed school

Chinese Adoptee Founds Nonprofit to Build 3D Printed Schools

three adoptees smiling for a group photo

Adoption

Chinese Adoptees Publish New Book Exploring Adoptee Identity

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Adoption

Announcing Holt’s 2022 Adoptee Scholarship Winners!

Uganda Women's National Lacrosse Team 2022 and Thuy Williams posed for a group picture, adoptee achievements

Adoption

The Power of Sports: How One Adoptee Empowered Women in Uganda

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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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