The Mission of the Georgia Industrial
Children's Home is to protect and care for
troubled children and their families in a safe,
stable environment while providing quality
care to help others help themselves.

It was the mission of Reverend William E. Mumford mission in 1897 to provide supportive services for the area's needy children. When Mumford first suggested opening the 200-acre Georgia Industrial Home Farm, the local response was less than enthusiastic. His innovative idea was to provide a safe shelter for children who had no home or whose parents had neglected or abandoned them. His dream was to care for their physical well being while teaching them skills and trades, teaching them to be independent and to take care of themselves, thereby removing the burden of their care from society.

For years the Home's Farm provided eggs, meat and produce to homes and merchants throughout Central Georgia, as well as a place for thousands of children to call "home." One hundred years later that Home is still dedicated to serving abused, abandoned, and neglected children and adolescents. The problems our children face have become more complicated, but Rev. Mumford's vision is evolving to meet those challenges.

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