In December 2015, Holt's long-time partner in the Philippines, KBF, celebrated 40 years of service to orphaned and vulnerable children!

Holt actually helped to establish KBF – the Kaisahang Buhay Foundation, or Working Together Foundation, in Manila — in 1975.  With Holt providing funding and technical assistance, a local team of professionals developed and staffed KBF. Though not a child care center, KBF became a resource for the many orphanages around the country. The staff worked to improve care conditions while also encouraging institutions to move children into permanent families.

In the 1980s, KBF broadened its outreach, establishing a medical sponsorship program, a daycare center and a program to house street children. Through a family rehabilitation and outreach program, KBF also helped numerous other agencies increase their services to children.  In 1984, KBF introduced a model foster care program to provide attentive, loving care for children awaiting adoption. After a temporary stay in foster care, many children reunited with their birth families or joined local or international adoptive families.