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by Alice Evans—Holt Managing Editor Not quite 3 years old, the little boy with the dark hair and dark eyes loved to dance — and he knew how to relate. “He got me dancing with him,” said Abbie Smith, director of the Holt International Waiting Child program. Smith and Angie Wharfield, social [...] by Alice Evans—Holt Managing Editor Several Holt International adoptive families had the opportunity to show off their children and discuss concerns about current long wait times for receiving referrals when high-ranking officials from China’s Department of Social Welfare and Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs visited a family’s home last weekend in Portland, Oregon. After [...] Keri Horn-Bolivar, the first child adopted from Vietnam through Holt International, recently won the Florida Beginning Teacher of the Year Award, given by the Florida Council of Teachers of English. Keri teaches English to 8th graders. She earned her M.A. in English at the University of South Florida earlier this year, and an M.A. in Organizational [...] One of the first families to adopt through Holt International’s Ethiopia program reports on their experience By Jody Lawson After considering adoption for nearly five years, my husband and I formally applied to adopt with Holt in January 2006, with China as our chosen country. A year and a half later we still did not have a [...] by Toni Acevedo, Holt International adoptive mom My husband and I decided we wanted to adopt a child on September 15, 2005. Little did we know that our son had been born in Guatemala just 15 days earlier. We wouldn’t actually hear his name or see his face for 14 months. Two years and seven months [...] |
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