Consistent with both national and international humanitarian efforts, the World Children’s Center is in full support of family reunification, kinship care, and individual adoptions. The World Children’s Center believes that when it is both physically and emotionally safe, the best place for a child to grow up is with his or her biological parents or other family members. When this is neither possible nor appropriate, we believe the next best option is adoption into a loving, healthy family environment. Unfortunately, for many children, neither family reunification nor adoption are appropriate or viable options. Under these circumstances, we believe that the next best option for children is to live in planned community of surrogate families that will provide long-term, individual care to homeless, abused, orphaned and neglected children.

The community will initially consist of approximately 24 homes with two surrogate parents and up to six children living in each home. Our goal is to provide services primarily for sibling groups of 2 or more, who are between the ages of 2 - 8 years old upon arrival at the Center.

The Community will be built over a ten-year period and will consist of both public and private venues that help to ensure the well being of the children who live and grow at the Center, as well as children who live in the surrounding community and abroad.

The Center will serve as an example to organizations around the world as the premier community providing loving homes for children who may otherwise be left behind.

The idea for the World Children’s Center comes from Atlanta businessman Donald H. Whitney, President and Chief Executive Officer of Corporate Sports Unlimited (CSU), Corporate Events and Meetings and Founder and President of The United States 10K Classic. For most of his life, Don has had a passion for serving others and has dreamed about a safe haven where needy children can live in peace, free from both hunger and want.

"At the age of 13 a television info commercial on the welfare of children worldwide changed my world and my heart was deeply moved by the sight of starving and hurting children. At that moment, I made a commitment that I would make a difference in the lives of children and began sponsoring (writing and sending financial support) to a child that I wanted to provide some hope for. Today, my wife and I are blessed to be able to continue this by sponsoring twenty-one (21) children in different organizations around the world."

Dedicated to this vision, Don and his wife Cathy have devoted themselves to building the World Children’s Center - a planned community for approximately 500 homeless, orphaned, and neglected children. "When completed, the World Children’s Center will serve as a voice for millions of children throughout the world."