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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The Future is Now in Nepal

Gary Gamer, Holt President and CEO

Kathmandu, Nepal—Intercountry adoption is suspended in Nepal as the government deliberates on a new set of regulations. Meanwhile, over 400 children who have already been matched with foreign families are stuck in the system waiting for final government approval.

This scenario is not new on the intercountry adoption scene. Controversies and [...]

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