Ryan and I are SO grateful for Holt International (http://holtintl.org/). We started this process with them in December 2008 and have been nothing short of thrilled with their level of service, commitment, response and dedication to helping our adoption dream come true. We would VERY highly recommend Holt. I know there are other wonderful agencies as well. I am just glad that we worked with one that has been so responsive and proactive.
Bela is currently in an orphanage in Pune, India which is outside of Bombay in the state of Maharashtra (see map). Holt has affiliations with several orphanages from India and we were given the choice of which agencies we wanted to adopt from. Because Reshma and her family are from Gujurat (close to Maharashtra), we prefer to adopt from either Mumbai or Pune. In fact, it's one of the reasons we chose Holt because they had orphanages in Mumbai and Pune. We felt that we would want to take Bela back to India in the future and the closer we are to Reshma's family, the better it would be.
I recently visted the http://india.adoption.com/ web site again and read that only 307 children from India were adopted to the US in 2008; I think a little over 400 were adopted in 2009. That just seems so low to me, but it also reminds me that Bela truly is one in a million and we are so lucky to be adopting her.
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