Hosea Helps helps Atlanta woman in need with rent, unitalities
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
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ATLANTA - The charitable organization Hosea Helps wants to help metro Atlanta women in need with their rent and utility bills.
The group is awarding six nonprofit organizations $25,000 each, so they can then provide financial assistance to women in Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties.
Nonprofits that would like to be considered must complete an online application by Friday, May 28.
A long line of cars stretched down Dr. Robert Smith Sr. Parkway in front of Blackburn Middle School Saturday morning, each car steadily moving forward as the day wore on.
Jackson State University students, staff and other volunteers stood in front of an 18-wheeler with a bright, light blue trailer adorned with the Amazon logo smiling across it.
Jackson community members were ushered through the Blackburn Middle School parking lot at 1311 W. Pearl Street starting at 9 a.m. to pick up nonperishable items, cases of water, hand sanitizers and masks. For those with children, volunteers also included books as part of the giveaway. .
Jackson State University and several community partners will be giving away 1,500 free food boxes to the community on Saturday, university officials said Friday.
According to a news release, the university s Center for Community Engagement will host the food box giveaway starting at 9 a.m. at the Blackburn Middle School parking lot, located at 1311 West Pearl Street.
The boxes, which will include non-perishable food items, will be given out on a first come, first serve basis. According to the release, the drive-thru event aims to help families in need.
Jackson State University partnered with TDC Premier Trucking LLC, a trucking company in the southeast region, Amazon and Hosea Helps, an organization dedicated to investigating and raising awareness of families facing poverty.
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Hormel Foods and Publix donated more than 6,000 Hormel half hams worth $85,000 to Atlanta-based nonprofit Hosea Helps last week to help feed thousands of families in need in the metro during the pandemic. (Hormel Foods)
ATLANTA, GA An estimated 1.7 million people in Georgia will experience food insecurity because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Feeding America. Hormel Foods Corporation and Publix have stepped in to help.
Hormel Foods and Publix donated more than 6,000 Hormel half hams worth $85,000 to Atlanta-based nonprofit Hosea Helps last week to help feed thousands of families in need in the metro during the pandemic. The donation was part of the Hormel Cure 81 Hams for Hunger program.
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