HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC

We seek a world where every child has the support and resources to reach their full potential — a world where every child has a loving and secure home. And we have championed a bold agenda for our work with orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children, focusing on five strategic objectives. Together with our staff, partners and allies around the world, we aim to:

1. Develop and implement a robust set of international child welfare and family strengthening services that address the needs of children and families in their communities. In 2021:

• Reached over 1,036,117 children and individuals
• Provided direct care and services including food, clothing, school scholarships, safe shelter, counseling, medical care, and emergency COVID relief.
• 14,782 children and young adults attended school, preschool, or college on full or partial scholarships
• 30,469 children and their families received support to remain in the birth families.
• 48,505 children received nutritional support
• 32,645 received critical medical care


2. Influence local, national and international policies that affect the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable children and families through coordinated efforts and joint actions in the countries we serve.

3. Build and strengthen our financial capacity to serve more children and families around the world. Our goal is to grow our total annual revenues to exceed $50 million which will fund programs that provide family support, educational opportunities, medical care, nutritional services, meals and more to orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children.

4. Strengthen information and knowledge management to increase Holt's organizational accountability, learning and ultimately, program impact.

5. Continue to be the world leader in international adoption, placing more children and providing the highest quality adoption services and programs to children, birth-parents and adoptive families.

Around the world, we work toward our vision by providing individualized, child-focused services in three main program areas:

Family Strengthening:

We believe that children should grow up in the loving care of their families. That's why our first priority is always to strengthen and preserve struggling families, whenever possible. Through nutritional, financial, health, education and counseling services, we provide the tools and resources families need to grow stable and self-reliant — addressing the root causes of child abandonment, and creating a safe, supportive environment for children to grow and thrive.

Orphan and Vulnerable Children Care:

Through our global network of local, on-the-ground experts and in-country partnerships, we ensure that children who have been orphaned, abandoned or separated from their families receive the highest level of care while we work to reunite them with their families or unite them with a loving adoptive family. We do this through a holistic program of medical, nutritional, educational and psycho-social services tailored to fit their individual needs and carried out whenever possible in a nurturing, family-like environment.

Adoption Services:

When adoption is the best option for a child, our local partners first strive to find a domestic adoptive family — giving the child the opportunity to grow up in the country and culture of their birth. When international adoption is the best route to a stable, loving family, our expert team of social workers and adoption professionals works across the U.S. to find the family best suited to care for each child's unique needs. As part of our commitment to serving adoptees and families, we provide pre- and post-adoption counseling, education, support and resources to ensure lifelong success for both children and their families.

This methodology guides our global partnerships and leads our collaborative efforts to ensure a stable, loving home for every child.

As part of our 10-year strategic plan, we have also begun initiatives to help us accomplish our five strategic objectives, including:

• Strengthen our revenue generation by identifying and evaluating new revenue sources including federal grants, and optimizing current fundraising activities such as our child sponsorship program.

• Monitor new program opportunities and scaling up high-impact programs.

• Identify, foster, and strengthen strategic alliances with organizations that share our vision.

• Strengthen and maintain critical relationships with key policy-makers and establish policy and legislative strategies that are issue, country and program-specific.

• Grow our constituent groups and build community through targeted communications of our mission and vision.

1. Unparalleled Expertise: In the 65 years since Holt's founders pioneered international adoption, Holt has cultivated an unparalleled expertise in finding and supporting permanent, loving families for children who truly need them.

2. Local, Discerning, Hands-On Intervention: Having a local, in-country presence allows us to identify, address and overcome the distinct struggles facing each and child and family. By collaborating with local experts, governments and organizations, we have the ability to directly intercede on behalf of displaced and vulnerable children. Our hands-on approach allows us to meet each child's specific needs and address the root cause of their displacement — be it social, political, economic or medical.

3. Responsible, Culturally Sensitive Guardianship: Our strategic, responsible and culturally sensitive approach and commitment to upholding the best interest of every child ensures we are good stewards of our resources. Given our global reach, we hold ourselves accountable to consistently affirming the dignity of each individual we serve and respecting the culture to which they belong. Through responsible use of our resources, we serve the global community while keeping the child's best interest as our central concern. Not only does that allow us to be the voice and champion of each displaced child, but it also puts us in the unique position of setting the standards across the fields of family preservation, child welfare and international adoption.

1. By continuing to grow and expand high-impact programs that serve children and families, we have also grown the number of individuals reached each year to 283,212 during FY19.

2. We continue to lead the global community in finding families for children through international adoption. As part of our commitment to serving the most vulnerable children around the world, we also continue to grow in-country services for children with special needs — and unite more and more of these children with families through adoption. In FY19, 68% of children adopted internationally had special need including significant behavioral challenges, cerebral palsy, HIV, down syndrome and more.

3. We also continue to grow our post-adoption services for adoptive families, birth families and adoptees, and increase the number of individuals we serve each year— reflecting growing awareness of and confidence in the services Holt offers. We provide many services, including birth parent searches, free of charge or at cost and offset the cost through fundraising.

4. Revenues from fundraising have grown from $17 million for FY17 to $25 million for FY22— enabling us to expand and strengthen our programs and services, and serve more and more children and families every year.

5. In 2021, more than 30,469 children were able to remain with their families with support from Holt International and our on-the-ground partners. To strengthen vulnerable families, we provide a robust number of services, which vary from country to country based on the needs of families. Our services may include educational scholarships, free daycare, vocational training, income-generating projects, interest free loans, pre- and post-natal healthcare, unwed mother support, community-based development, hygiene training, natural disaster aid, emergency food, nutrition training and family support and resources for children with special needs.

6. In FY2021, Holt International cared for more than 3,529 children in Holt-supported foster families or care centers. To care for orphaned, abandoned and homeless children, we train and support foster families who provide a more family-like atmosphere for waiting children, train and support group home families and special homes for children with special needs, develop and track the most robust feeding and nutrition programs tailored for children with special needs, and provide quality medical care and emergency surgeries to children in need.

7. In 2021, Holt International found domestic or international adoptive families for more than 274 children. For adoptees and their families, Holt's services include parent education and training, home study services, post-adoption services, family and individual counseling, summer camps for youth adoptees, adult adoptee support groups, birth family searches, homeland tours and adoptive family networking events. In 2021, over 2,400 individuals received direct support.