Who is Holt International?
Holt International is a Christian organization that provides care and support to many of the world’s most vulnerable children. We empower families to overcome poverty, care for children in orphanages and unite children with families through adoption.
Holt pioneered the modern practice of international adoption in 1956 and continues to be the leading agency in the United States. Thousands of children have joined loving, permanent families through our adoption programs. Today, our primary focus is to help children remain in the loving care of their birth families whenever possible.
Strengthening Families to Keep Them Together
Holt’s family strengthening programs provide support and resources to families who might otherwise separate under the strains of poverty. By providing everything from food assistance to counseling to small business microloans, you can help a family grow stable, self-reliant and equipped to independently provide for their children.
Services include:
Caring for Orphaned & Vulnerable Children
When children become orphaned or separated from their families, we work alongside our global partners to ensure they receive nurturing, attentive care in a Holt-supported foster home, group home or care center. Every child receives the medical, nutritional, educational and psychosocial services they need to grow and thrive while we work to reunite them with their family — or help them join a family through adoption.
Services include:
Uniting Children & Families Through Adoption
Every year, Holt’s worldwide programs help thousands of children remain or reunite with their birth families. But for some children, adoption remains the best route to a stable, loving family. For every child, we first seek an adoptive family in the country and culture of their birth before seeking a family through international adoption.
Services include:
- Adoption in Birth Country
- Hague-Accredited International Adoption
- Homestudy Services
- Financing Adoption
- U.S. Adoption
Meet the Children Waiting For Families
Supporting All Adoptees & Adoptive Families for Life
Holt has a robust post adoption services team that provides everything from birth search assistance to counseling to adoptee camps and heritage tours. We strive to help all adoptees and families, regardless of placing agency, and we continually seek to better understand and address the unique and varied needs of all those whose lives have been touched by adoption.
Services include:
- Birth Search
- Citizenship & Documentation
- Parenting Support & Education
- Adoptee Summer Camps
- Additional Adoptee Resources
Learn about Holt Post Adoption Services
Dear Sponsor
When you sponsor a child through Holt, your monthly gifts help provide everything a child needs to reach their potential in life — from food, shelter and education to the nurturing care of a devoted family or caregiver.
Over time, you may also build a relationship with your sponsored child by corresponding through our Holt Sponsor Center. Children may send letters or artwork to share about their lives and express their gratitude. Here is a letter one child wrote for their sponsor in the U.S.
Thank you so much for your sponsorship! I’m in tears and get so emotional when I receive the funding from you. I’m so grateful that you picked me and have trust in me. You have been a true inspiration to me. I must keep on doing my best at school, and you will be my motivation when I face challenges. I will stay focused on my studies, and create my own bright future. I want to walk out of the mountain, and explore the world. Best wishes for you.
Written by RiHuanHuang, 8 years old, China
(translated from Chinese)
Teens Connect The World: Brain, Children and Love 
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