Pearl S. Buck International

Pearl S. Buck International is committed to improving the quality of life and expanding opportunities for children and their caregivers worldwide through adoption services and humanitarian programs providing education and healthcare.

Why do we exist?

PSBI exists to improve the quality of life and expand opportunities for children, principally in Asia, who, as a result of the circumstances of their birth, have been denied access to educational, social, economic and civil rights. These children include ethnic and racial minorites; disabled, including those affected by HIV/AIDS; orphans and those who need a new family; and refugees, displaced and stateless.

Although many international development organizations work with the poor, PSBI goes beyond that focus and works with children and families whose poverty is exponentially compounded by prejudice and bigotry. PSBI has historically been able to make limited resources go far in publicizing and alleviating the injustices faced by these disadvantaged children living in the shadows of intolerance and discrimination.

PSBI’s Community Development programs address the Health (H), Education (E), Livelihood (L) and Psycho-social protection and development needs (P) of our target children in the communities in which we live. Together, these form our HELP program model. Activities are designed and implemented to provide support to children from among PSBI’s four target groups and to build the capacities of implementing partners to better assure on going development. Our Child and Family Service programs aim to build the ability of families and communities to care for their own children, orphans or those at risk of becoming social or economic orphans. We achieve this goal by promoting the capacity development of local partners and in adoption and child welfare systems. PSBI’s Welcome House Adoption Program works to join orphaned children with a new family. We specialize in the unique needs of multi-cultural families and seek homes that celebrate the child’s birth culture. By choosing to support PSBI, you are ensuring that children and their families around the world will continue to receive hope and encouragement through PSBI programs as they work to make positive changes in their own lives.

What have you accomplished?

Through activities that work with children and communities directly, as well as through program partnerships with local organizations, PSBI is able to serve more than 100,000 children and their families annually through our Community Development, Child and Family Service and Adoption programs. An example of PSBI programmatic impact is the story of Thelma Bactol, the mother of an ethnic minority child, was forced to leave her village because of discrimination and bigotry. In order to try and provide a livelihood for her family, she walked all day in the streets of her new village carrying a wooden bucket full of fruit flavored popsicles and earned $2.50 a day. From her sales, her income barely met her family’s requirement for food and she could not send her child to school. However, after learning about PSBI’s livelihood program, and writing a business plan, Thelma received approval for a micro-loan. She used this loan to purchase a bicycle and additional popsicle-making materials. Today, with increased mobility she can earn $15 to $20 per day and can provide a quality education for her child, pay back her loan and serve nutritious meals to her family

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