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Adoptions From: China, Russia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan & Colombia

Orphan Sponsorship From: China, Russia, India & Kazakhstan

Adoption Numbers: 715 in 2006, over 6000 since 1992

Home Office: St. Louis, Missouri

14 Regional Branches: The Children's Hope International home office is in St. Louis, Missouri with offices in Arizona, California, Illinois, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, New York, Oregon, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Washington.

International Offices: Beijing, Moscow and Ho Chi Minh City.

Children’s Hope International is giving orphans who have no hope, a new life with loving forever families through international adoption and connecting sponsors with orphans who will not be adopted. For fourteen years, Children’s Hope has found loving homes for over 6000 children. In the summer of 2006, Children's Hope launched an Orphan Sponsorship program for orphans in China, orphans in Russia, orphans in India and orphans from Kazakhstan and orphans in Vietnam.

In 1992, when China opened up to international adoption, Dwyatt Gantt along with Melody Zhang recognized the opportunity to help orphaned children find a home. Gantt moved from China back to the United States while Zhang worked through an orphanage in China. In that first year, fourteen children were placed in forever families through adoption from China. Children’s Hope was one of the first agencies to finalize adoptions from China for American families. In 2004, Children's Hope finalized 443 adoptions from China making a yearly total of 816 from all five countries we serve.

Since our mission is to better the lives of children throughout the world, Children's Hope does not forget those orphans who are not adopted. Children’s Hope has a growing Orphan Sponsorship program that provides food and medicine to orphanages, builds playgrounds and sponsors career training. Since 2000, Children's Hope has completed over 1600 surgeries in China including many life-saving heart operations.

As a partner with Children's Hope, you can bring hope to an orphan.