Christmas at Jeonju Babies’ Home

by Sally Dunbar, Holt Family Recruitment Specialist

Jeonju, Republic of South Korea—Few things are more precious than a child’s face on Christmas. The 2008 Holt International Gift Team hosted the annual Christmas party for infants and children at Jeonju Babies’ Home on Saturday. Jeonju is a homelike care center for infants and children whose birth families [...]

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Small Miracles

A pastor’s offer of prayer encouraged a couple to proceed with their first of several adoptions through Holt International

by Todd Wisotzkey

Dianne and I got married in July 1993 and five years later began our family with the birth of a beautiful baby girl named Kayla.

Our journey to extend our family through adoption began [...]

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The Gift of Happiness

by Sally Dunbar, Holt Family Recruitment Specialist

Ilsan, Republic of South Korea—It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Ilsan Center, known affectionately as Holt Ilsan Town! Today was the annual Christmas party at this residence center for homeless, disabled children and adults, some of them now in their late 50s and who [...]

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A Day to Honor Angels

by Sally Dunbar, Holt Family Recruitment Specialist

Seoul, Republic of Korea—Holt International’s 2008 Korea Christmas Gift Team held a reception party today to honor the Korean foster mothers who care for relinquished, orphaned or abandoned babies.

Today’s party at the offices of Holt Children’s Services of Korea (HCS) was the 40th Annual Celebration for Holt’s [...]

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Lucky to Get a Boy!

When a long-waiting couple opened their hearts to a boy, their assignment from Holt International came quickly.

Excerpts from the blog of Lisa Ronda

We started out our adoption process only open to a girl, as young and healthy as possible. So to end our adoption with a boy who was 2 1/2 years old with a [...]

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Nepal: Sponsoring Children at the ‘Top of the World’

by Alice Evans—Holt Managing Editor

Ajita* doesn’t know how to lace her shoes yet, but she has a good habit of wearing them whenever she goes outside.  Maybe she is just glad to have a pair of shoes, this smiling 4-year-old who was found abandoned near a bridge outside Kathmandu when she was 2.  An active [...]

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Will Dantzler radio interview

Will Dantzler, chairman of Holt International Board of Directors, was in Milwaukee, WI recently to participate in a fundraiser for children in China.  He tells Lake Effect’s Stephanie Lecci about how he and his wife became inextricably involved in international adoptions. Click here to listen to this radio interview.

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China Adoption: We’ve Been Blessed

A couple who adopted a perfectly healthy boy with a missing limb through Holt International’s China Child of Promise Option got just the son they wanted

by Sheri Quirie

When I answered the phone, I had no idea how important that call would be. Our social worker asked, “How much purple paint did you get painted last [...]

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