Mar 11, 2010
Adoption Guide


Media Contacts

International Adoption News Contact

Cory Barron
Foundation Director & Adoption Expert
Phone: (314) 812-1703
After Hours Phone: (314) 757-0365
Email: Cory.Barron@Children'sHope.net

News Contact

Jennifer Newcomb
Communications Coordinator
Phone: (314) 812-1775
After Hours Phone: (314) 498-9620
Email: Jennifer.Newcombe@Children'sHope.net

Adoptions From: China, Russia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Colombia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Ukraine 

Partners in Hope: China, Vietnam, India, and Ethiopia 

Adoption Numbers:  496 in 2008, over 7000 since 1992

Office Location: St. Louis, Missouri

International Offices: Beijing, Moscow and Addis Ababa.


Children’s Hope International is giving orphans who have no hope, a new life with loving forever families through international adoption and connecting partners with orphans and impoverished children who will not be adopted. For over 15 years, Children’s Hope has found loving homes for over 7000 children.

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 806 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. See our current humanitarian aid work from the field through Hope's Purpose, our Foundation's blog.

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