Tender Love & Care Home for The Homeless, Inc. is a 501(c3) non-profit charitable organization founded in 1991 by Retired Sergeant First Class Jean Keel. She started this as a grass-roots community advocacy effort in response to the increasing issue of underserved homeless veterans in the Georgia and the Alabama region.
Our Therapeutic Farm is a safe place for healing for homeless and wounded veterans. This includes veterans suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and military sexual trauma. Our farm project will consist of twenty tiny houses for homeless women veterans.
The farm will produce vegetables to sell at farmers markets in various locations. The project will have on-site training for life-skills, culinary for healthy lifestyles, a resale store, beginning farming and business infrastructure development.
Tender Love & Care Farm has provided transitional housing for the homeless veterans for over eight years in Columbus, Georgia. (1990-1999). In 1996, Congressman Sanford Bishop and Congresswoman Corrine Brown recognized Tender Love & Care with a Certificate of Congressional Recognition for their outstanding achievement as the Georgia Best Transitional Housing Program.
The primary goal of the Tender Love & Care veterans outreach program is to provide unsheltered and disenfranchised veterans and their families. The objective is to provide positive solutions to ensure their safety and maximize their potential, all while taking advantage of available opportunities.
In addition, community resource information is provided to assist veterans with the transition from homeless to self-sufficiency. The goal is to reduce and help eradicate veteran homelessness in the tri-city area and ultimately in America.