October 2005

Help Low Income Families

with Energy Needs

While heat is a necessity, it's almost unaffordable to low income households. Record high energy prices mean heating costs for low income Georgia residents will be expensive this winter.

 

You can help. Donate to the Heating Energy Assistance Team (H.E.A.T.), a nonprofit organization helping needy households with heating costs. Since it's establishment in 1983, H.E.A.T. has disbursed over $14.5 million to nearly 73,000 families in need.

 

Funding is more critical today. Needy families will struggle with increased heating bills from the rising energy prices, caused partly by the affects of Hurricane Katrina.

 

Natalie Baker knows the value of H.E.A.T. Baker is a single parent of a five-year-old son and a recipient of H.E.A.T. funds. She's a full-time student at a local technical college striving for a better life for her family.

 

"Times got really hard for us," Baker says, "and my heating bill had doubled. H.E.A.T. is a lifesaver for people who are less fortunate and who don't have enough income at a particular time."

 

For more testimonies, log on to the H.E.A.T. website. Your contribution goes a long way. Go online or call 678/406-0212 for more information on H.E.A.T.

How can you donate?

 

Online - Log on to www.heatga.org.

Mail - Complete the form in The Walton EMC Gasette October 2005 issue and mail with your tax-deductible donation to H.E.A.T., Wachovia Bank, N.A., P.O. Box 930112, Atlanta, GA 31193.

 

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