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Director Mansour Masse reports all the children in Holt International care at Holt Fontana Village in Haiti are safe and sound in the wake of Hurricane Gustav. Holt International Senior Executive Dan Lauer spoke by phone with Mansour on Wednesday afternoon, and Mansour said all had survived the storm. The hurricane hit southwestern Haiti on Tuesday, [...] Hot diggity dog, it’s still summer time! Come celebrate children from near and far at Holt’s annual picnic in Lakewood, NJ. All are welcome! There will be a special meet-and-greet session for new and prospective adoptive families to talk with Holt staff about adoption. There will also be fun children’s activities and special [...] Considering international adoption? Get the information you need from the convenience and privacy of your home… log onto a Holt International adoption webinar. Several times each month Holt hosts a live online webinar where one of our adoption workers walks you through the process with helpful audiovisuals and answers questions. You get the most current information [...] by Gary Gamer, Holt International President and CEO I am pleased to say that Susan Cox was selected by the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a member of the Overseas Koreans Honorary Committee for the 60th anniversary of the Republic of South Korea. Forty individuals appointed from the United States and Europe for this Honorary [...] Food, fun and valuable information about adoption! What more can you ask for at a picnic celebrating adoption? More than 110 people attended Holt International’s annual picnic in the greater Chicago area last Saturday to do just that—picnic together and celebrate adoption. Families from as far away as Iowa, Wisconsin, and Indiana made the trek [...] by Debbie Dunham We don’t attend our own families’ reunions. There are numerous reasons: timing, location, travel, but the end result is the same—we just don’t go and, frankly, I got over feeling guilty about it years ago. Every summer, however, we rent an RV, spend a week preparing our camping gear, the food, the [...] Holt International adoptee Kari Banta is one of many young wheelchair athletes that the U.S. Paralympics Committee invited to write an essay on what disabilities mean to them—for a chance to go to Beijing. One of 25 winners from hundreds of entries, Kari will travel with her older brother to the Paralympics, to [...] The Holt International program advisor for Africa recently returned from a visit to Holt program sites in Ethiopia and reported on the initial effects of the famine. “When I arrived in Ethiopia,” said Bruce Dahl, “everything looked green and seemed pretty normal, but I soon found that behind the scenes children are beginning to suffer from [...] You can give critically needed items to orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children through “Gifts of Hope.” Our online catalog lists items and services you can fund to bring hope to children in our projects around the world. These items also make especially meaningful gifts in honor of someone you care about. Give an [...] |
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