Helping Overcome Poverty in Elbert County

Please note! We have a new phone number. Contact now at 706-283-5956. Please leave a message and a volunteer will return your call as soon as possible. We are 100% volunteer so it may take a few days to get back to you about setting up an appointment. Our appointment slots are usually quick to fill up each month.

The annual Back to School backpack event was held on Saturday, July 20th at the ROC gym. HOPE was one of many community organizations participating by filling each child’s backpack with personal hygiene items. We would like to thank Elbert County Extension for their generous donation of hygiene items and to Barbara Newman, Rev Richard Jarvis, PJo Phelps, Deb Dudley, Mary Adams and Steve Adams who manned our table and spread the word about our organization.

HOPE is in possession of this beautiful quilt and we would like to share ir’s beauty by having a raffle! Raffle tickets are $5 each or 5 tickets for $20. Drawing for the winner will be May 31st.
Members of our board who will have tickets are: Rev Richard Jarvis, Rev Tim Savelle, Barbara Newman, Mary Adams, Trish Peek, Deb Dudley, Robin McCall.

On Saturday Pilgrims Pride Corp held their annual Family Fun Day, catered by Compass Rose. Helping Compass with food preparation were three folks representing HOPE, with the promise of a donation to HOPE for their time spent. They were prepping food, boiling hot dogs and sausages, flipping burgers and grilling hot dogs and sausages (a few may have landed on the ground as we adjusted to the learning curve). It was very busy work but also a lot of fun and certainly a very different way to spend a Saturday. Thanks go out to Barbara Newman, Ruchard Peek and Trish Peek.