I’m in Rincon GA. I don’t know if there are any closer then Savannah and I think they cost.
Rincon, GA. A quick Google search for Emergency Family services lead me here....
Coastal Georgia assistance programs.
http://www.needhelppayingbills.com/html/coastal_georgia_assistance_pro.html
Get help with paying rent, expenses, utilities, housing, and much more. The programs below cover the Georgia counties of Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Bleckley, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Candler, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Dodge, Effingham, Emmanuel, Evans, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Johnson, Laurens, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Montgomery, Pierce, Tattnall, Telfair, Toombs, and Treutlen county Georgia.
Coastal Georgia Area Community Action Authority, Inc. is one of the community action agencies that serves the area. The programs they offer the low income include the following.
•Crisis and Emergency Energy Bill Assistance - Assistance may be available and can provide qualified individuals with once a year assistance on their energy bills to help defray cost of paying for primary heating utilities and energy bills. Get help with such expenses as home heating fuels, regardless of whether you heat with natural gas, wood, coal, fuel oil, or propane. The elderly, families with children, and homebound are usually the first to get any financial aid.
•Emergency Assistance grants from the federal government can assist with paying for rent, mortgage expenses, cooling and utility bill assistance, shelter. Most funding comes from the federal government FEMA agency.
•Food assistance - The low income and people who are struggling can get access to commodity distribution, which provides governmental food, produce and other items. At most you can get food three times per year.
•Debt reduction advice, budgeting, credit repair and improvement, and money management classes are offered to client.
•Weatherization assistance may be able to provide qualified homeowners with the replacement of caulking, broken windows, insulation, weather stripping, etc. and minor home repairs and improvements to improve energy efficiency of homes.
•Housing services may be able to assist low-income persons obtain/maintain home ownership, including funds for rent, security deposits, and other housing support.
Call the Pembroke Georgia based Coastal Georgia Area Community Action Authority, Inc. at (912) 653-4993.
Concerted Services, Inc. is another local community action agency of southeast and coastal Georgia.
•Get help is a crisis from emergency assistance programs. The aid can be presented to applicants in many forms. In most cases, people have the need for utility assistance, free food, shelter, cooling and heating bill assistance, transportation, medical assistance, clothing, and other basic needs. The community action agency Concerted Services, Inc. partners with many agencies and non-profits, including federal, state, and local government entities, churches, other public and private service providers, and other religious organizations. Click here for rent help programs.
•The federal government funded Low-Income Heating Assistance Program (LIHEAP) offers a one-time cash grant/payment of a heating bill for low-income, elderly, and disabled households. Some years, additional emergency funds are also allocated by the Federal and/or State government for cooling bill assistance payments for low-income households.
•Food commodities, groceries and free food and banks provide nonperishable food, produce, breads, and meat to low-income individuals and families by holding mass distributions in each county in the surrounding Georgia area a few times each year.
•Weatherization is offered and the program uses the National Energy Audit Technology to improve energy efficiency of each household. For your home get Compact fluorescent lamps, Smart thermostat, insulation, and much more.
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Have you called this place? May or may not help. But if/when you reach a dead end - ASK the agent or counselor who else can help? Where else can you call?
You will find NO is the answer 99 times out of a 100. But on that 100th try - God will open a door for you.
I know people in the surrounding area of Rincon.
I could ask them to call nearby churches and find out if they could help in some way, by taking a collection or temp housing, etc. They might at least be able to offer direction.