Holt International Children's Services

The nonprofit works in thirteen countries, including: Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Mongolia, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, and the United States.

[4] In 1954, Harry (1904–1964) and Bertha Holt (1904–2000) were busy raising their six children on a farm near the small Willamette Valley city of Creswell.

babies" of the Korean War in orphanages in Korea, the Holts decided they would adopt some of the children who needed families.

Peter Moller, an adoptee from Denmark, discovered that his mother was alive and demanded an inquiry into illegal adoptions between the 1960s and 1980s by the Truth and Reflection commission.

This incident, along with the death of Sherin Mathews in Texas, led to the Indian government suspending ties with the agency.