Holt International

Hey there everybody! It's been a while since I've posted anything here because of a lovely little thing called school. Professors feel the need to throw everything at students in the last two to three weeks of class. Well, it's finals week, and I have a snow day so I decided to take a break from studying to write about something truly awesome.

ME!

No, not me. Actually, it's an organization called Holt International. I first heard about it last week at the Newsong/Newsboys Very Merry Christmas Tour concert. Holt is a Christian international adoption organization. I know what you're thinking, "Why the heck are you telling me about this? I can't adopt a child!" Well, neither can I, but there is another way to help.

You have the opportunity to sponsor a child who desperately needs your help. These children are either orphaned or have been given away by their parents in poor countries. Holt steps in to help these children to get adopted, but they still need help while they wait for a forever family. For just one dollar each day, you can help provide a child with "food, shelter, clothing, medical treatment, and attentive care." Not just any child though, you get to chose a child (or more than one if you want). Once the child is adopted, your sponsorship is over, but you get the amazing feeling of knowing that you helped care for your child until he or she was adopted.

I became a sponsor at that concert. My little girl is named Nominerdene. She is a six year old from Mongolia who loved music and singing. There is a lot of poverty in Mongolia so a lot of parents are abondoning their children. Holt International went in in 1999 and set up the Rainbow Baby Care Unit to help homeless children. They try to stabalize the children's birth homes so the children can be with their biological families, but when that can't happen, Holt works to find a family to adopt.

I am so thrilled to be able to sponsor this beautiful little girl and help her continue to sing. If you want to adopt, sponsor, or just want more informmation, go to www.holtinternational.org and look around. I hope this post can help more children to find sponsors.

Lots of love in the holiday season,
Brittany