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Line 1: {{Short description\|Adoption agency}} {{Use American English\|date=July 2024}} {{Use mdy dates\|date=July 2024}} {{Multiple issues\| {{more citations needed\|date=May 2015}} Line 18 ⟶ 19: '''Holt International Children's Services''' ('''HICS''') is a faith-based humanitarian organization and [[adoption agency]] based in [[Eugene, Oregon\|Eugene]], [[Oregon]], United States, known for [[international adoption]] and child welfare. The [[nonprofit]] works in thirteen countries, including: [[Cambodia]], [[China]], [[Colombia]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Haiti]], [[India]], [[Mongolia]], [[Philippines]], [[South Korea]], [[Thailand]], [[Uganda]], [[Vietnam]], and the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.holtinternational.org/about/\|title=Holt International - Holt International\|website=www.holtinternational.org\|language=en\|access-date=2018-07-23}}</ref> This work includes a range of services for children and families including efforts in nutrition, education, family strengthening, orphan care, foster care, family reunification, and child sponsorship.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.holtinternational.org/\|title=Holt International\|website=www.holtinternational.org\|language=en\|access-date=2018-07-23}}</ref> The organization's stated mission is to seek a world where every child has a loving and secure home.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.holtinternational.org\|title=Holt International\|website=www.holtinternational.org\|language=en\|access-date=2017-09-15}}</ref> in recent years , Holt become subject of controversy and sucutry for illegal adaptions and human trafficking of children with false field papers include case of Jeong In<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/10/113_337613.html?fbclid=IwAR2BbCyRS98WAgJhvExdSMQZwZUqB5-QG9sInJJDYdbkbe2TloGm9rl1VAM\|title=Adoption agency denies fabricating documents of Danish adoptees\|date=10 October 2022 \|publisher=The Korea Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/world/europe/foreign-adoptions-ban-norway-denmark.html\|title=In Norway, a Proposed Ban on Foreign Adoptions Rattles All Sides of a Heated Debate\|publisher=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last= Kim\|first=Tong-hyung \|date=August 23, 2022 \|title= Danish adoptees call for S. Korea to probe adoption issues\|url=https://apnews.com/article/seoul-adoption-south-korea-government-and-politics-73c55bfc948ef6366dad8629742aa205 \|work= AP \|location=Seoul, South Korea}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last= Kim \|first=Tong-hyung \|date= June 11, 2021\|title=Korean adoptee films pain of mother-child separations \|url= https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-1a91dc0d067455beb20242e2317a920b\|work=AP \|location=Seoul, South Korea }}</ref> <ref>{{cite news \|date= May 16, 2023\|title=South Korean court orders agency to compensate Asian American adoptee\|url= https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/south-korean-court-orders-agency-compensate-asian-american-adoptee-rcna84690\|work=Associated Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last= Kim \|first=Tong-hyung \|date=January 24, 2019\|title=AP Exclusive: Adoptee deported by US sues S. Korea, agency\|url= https://apnews.com/article/immigration-north-america-lawsuits-us-news-ap-top-news-12472d8f87944f12ae63f74a2829a410\|work=AP \|location=Seoul, South Korea }}</ref> ==History== 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, Oregon\|Creswell]]. In addition to farming, Harry ran a lumber company. Bertha, trained as a nurse, was a homemaker and mother.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.holtinternational.org/about/\|title=Holt International - Holt International\|website=www.holtinternational.org\|language=en\|access-date=2018-07-23}}</ref> Line 25: Two months later, the "[[Bill for Relief of Certain War Orphans\|Holt Bill]]" was passed, and in October 1955, Harry Holt and eight children arrived at [[Portland International Airport]]. The resulting publicity stirred interest among many families in the United States. The Holts set about helping others to adopt, leading to the creation of the foundation. <ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.mk.co.kr/news/society/view/2021/11/1045324/\|title='세계봉사상'에 빛난 홀트아동복지회 최악 불명예 직면\|publisher=MK News}}</ref> in recent years, the Holt agency was accused for illegal adaptations with [[Brothers Home]] between 1970s and 1980s where Peter Moller, an adoptee from Denmark learned his mother was alive and demanded inquiry of illegal adoptions between 1960 and 1980s to Truth and Reflection commission, Adam Crapser who adopted into an abusive home, discovered his citizenship was illegal <ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/sep/28/korea-is-hiding-our-past-the-adoptees-searching-for-their-families-and-the-truth\|title=‘Korea is hiding our past’: the adoptees searching for their families – and the truth\|publisher=The Guairdan}}</ref>. the agency under fired when in 2014, when a 3-year-old Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan was murdered by his adoptive father Brian O'Callaghan prior of adoption, Hyunsu's foster mother asked Holt to adopt Hyunsu as her son but it wont allow and his adoptive father hide PSTD during screening test and in 2020 16-month-old Jeong-in was murdered by her adoptive parents after Holt matched them and death of [[Sherin Mathews]] in Texas which Indian government suspended ties with agency ==Awards== Line 45 ⟶ 43: {{Authority control}} [[Category:1956 establishments in Oregon]]▼ [[Category:Adoption and religion]] [[Category:Adoption-related organizations]] ~~[[Category:Non-profit organizations based in Oregon]]~~ [[Category:Aftermath of the Korean War]] ▲[[Category:1956 establishments in Oregon]] [[Category:International adoption]] [[Category:~~Adoption~~Non-profit ~~and~~organizations ~~religion~~based in Oregon]] [[ko:홀트아동복지회]]