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Adoptive Family Homeland Journeys
and Project Kindness by World Ties

Helping children know the people with whom they share their heritage are warm, wonderful, genuine people.

Traveling to your child’s country of birth as a family will be one of the most profound, bonding, identity building opportunities in your family’s life experience of adoption.   

For more than 17 years in twelve countries, the Hallmark of The Ties Program has been our ability to create an experience that allows you to travel with a community of adoptive families and trained professionals, and at the same time, have your individual family dreams and needs met.

Adoptive family heritage tours are available to Cambodia, China, Chile, Guatemala, India, Korea, Peru, Paraguay, The Philippines, Russia, Romania and Vietnam.  Programs opening in Colombia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan and The Ukraine. 

We experience the culture and see the sites, but even more importantly, we:

• Help families reconnect with significant people and places related to their adoption.
• Offer optional  "Connect & Chat" for the kids and “Talk Times” for the adults throughout our programs—done by a trained adoption social worker or adoption professional.
• Give children a sense of belonging as they experience their birth country with other adoptive children.
• Provide a foundation for understanding cultural issues related to adoption.
• Offer humanitarian aid options via our sister organization World Ties.

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