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One Child, One Policy, One Life Forever Changed

Andrea holds the hand of a child who has complex congenital heart disease to illustrate his cyanosis and clubbing.

Orphans & Vulnerable Children

The Heart Warriors

Adoption

How to Create Openness in International Adoption

Adoption

MYTH: I Can’t Afford Adoption

Adoption

You’re So lucky: Addressing the Myth of the Lucky Adoptee

Adoption

Balancing Structure and Nurture

Adoption

Birth Parent — The Forgotten Voice of Adoption Series Part 4

Adoption

As Luck Would Have It

Adoption

MYTH: Adoption — Particularly International Adoption — Is Coming To An End.

Adoptees, board members and partner agencies visit the Ilsan Center, founded by Harry and Bertha Holt in 1964 to care for children unlikely to find families through adoption.

Adoption

First Generation Adoptees Travel to Korea for Holt Korea’s 60th Anniversary

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In 2024, Holt sponsors and donors helped:
  • Improve the lives of 1,053,918 children, family members and other individuals around the world
  • Unite 181 children with adoptive families through international or in-country adoption
  • Care for 3,692 children in orphanages, group homes or foster families 
  • 29,325 children remain or reunite with their birth families
  • Provide post-adoption services for 4,817 adoptees and families

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