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By Carrie Craft, About.com

US-based listing with many serving clients around the world. This listing does not constitute an endorsement. Please read What to Look for in an Adoption Agency.

Wednesday's Child
The national Wednesday's Child Website, sponsored by the Freddie Mac Foundation, provides photographs and descriptions of children in need of adoptive families who are shown on television each Wednesday night in 6 different cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. The site also provides free information packets for families and social workers and a family resource area with anaswers to Frequently Asked Questionss about Wednesday's Child. We receive questions and inquiries every day from people who are interested in the waiting children shown on Wednesday's Child TV programs and on the site, or who just want to know more about or understand the Wednesday's Child program.

Wasatch International Adoption
Complete adoption services in Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine.

Wide Horizons for Children, Inc.
Serve families throughout the U.S. and have placed children from 10 different countries, including the United States. Regions include Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America. Wide Horizons has regional offices in seven states.

World Association of Children & Parents (WACAP)
Programs for domestic and international adoption including China, India, Korea, Russia, and Thailand.

World Child International
Arrange and facilitate international. They offer many services including home studies in several states.

World Partners Adoption
A non-profit international child placement agency licensed in the state of Georgia for adoptions from Kazakhstan, China, Ukraine, Vietnam, Russia, Bulgaria, Colombia, and Guatemala. You do not have to live in Georgia to use this agency.

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