FOOD pantry & emergency financial assistance
SHARING LOVE AND LIFE'S ESSENTIALS
You are not alone. You are loved.
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providing counseling, food and financial assistance
Our mission is to provide food and essential non-food items, temporary financial assistance, resource counseling and educational assistance to those in need residing in Pickens County, Georgia. Anyone who is placed in a difficult situation due to illness, accident or any misfortune that causes them to be in a temporary or emergency need of food is welcome to be a recipient. It is our devout hope that those who receive these goods and services will be strengthened in body and spirit.
CARES Partners with Must Ministries to Provide Summer Lunches to Kids
While summer often means sleeping in or planning your next getaway, many of our neighbors are wondering how their children will have lunch each day. During school, a free lunch meal doesn't come out of the sparse family budget.
That's when MUST Ministries – in partnership with CARES - steps in with the Summer Lunch Program and brings the community together to help those in need. With the help of compassionate volunteers, we will provide a nutritious lunch each summer weekday to children in Pickens County.
In years past, volunteers would pack the lunches and drive them to communities around the county. In response to the COVID 19 outbreak, MUST has determined that this process would be ill-advised and has devised a new way to get lunches into the hands of kids. In this new model, MUST will be providing all of the food and CARES will become the hub for volunteer mobilization and food distribution.
Beginning on Monday, June 1st and each Monday thereafter throughout the summer, a truck full of pre-packed lunches will arrive at CARES. Families in need will come to CARES from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm and receive one box for each child. Each box will contain five lunches, one for each weekday.
There is NO NEED to register if your child needs food. Simply show up at CARES between 11:00 am and 1 pm each Monday to receive your box.
If you want to be a part of the food distribution team, we are looking for happy, loving and fun volunteers who want to make a difference. Simply contact CARES at 706-253-4777, cares@etcmail.com or through this web site and be a part of our quest to “Share Love and Life’s Essentials!”
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Your tax deductible contribution will empower us to provide friendship, food and funds those most in need. Your generous donation is greatly appreciated!
We're here to help.
emergency assistance days
FOOD DISTRIBUTION:
Mon 9am-12pm
Wed 9am-12pm
Fri 9am-12pm
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
1st, 3rd and 5th Fridays each month
9am-12pm
First 10 clients will be served.
Please come with documentation of your circumstances.
Clients can only be served once every 12 months.
For more info, call 706-253-
About Us
Our hISTORY
Our hISTORY
Our hISTORY
CARES was born in the hearts of loving and courageous people at Holy Family Episcopal Church (Jasper, GA) in 1997. From that handful of servants has emerged a family of nearly 100 volunteers providing friendship and food to just under 200 families each and every week.
Our MISSION
Our hISTORY
Our hISTORY
Our mission is to provide food and essential non-food items, temporary financial assistance, resource counseling and educational assistance to those in need who are residing in Pickens County, Georgia. Anyone in a difficult situation due to illness, accident, layoff or any misfortune that causes them to be in a temporary or emergency n
Our mission is to provide food and essential non-food items, temporary financial assistance, resource counseling and educational assistance to those in need who are residing in Pickens County, Georgia. Anyone in a difficult situation due to illness, accident, layoff or any misfortune that causes them to be in a temporary or emergency need of the basics -food and emergency assistance with housing - is welcome to be a recipient. It is our devout hope that those who receive these goods and services will be strengthened in body and spirit. We are more than a food pantry. We want you to know you are loved!
Our HISTORY
Our hISTORY
Our HISTORY
Our amazing family of volunteers and part-time staffers are committed to helping others reach that "next place" in their life journey. We take our convictions and turn them into action and find a lot of joy and fun along the way! Think you would be a good fit? Get in touch for more information!