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Olney Help is a community organization run entirely by volunteers who work out of their homes. The mission of Olney Help is to provide short-term emergency help with food, financial needs or access to resources from other agencies. Olney Help is a Lead Agency of the Emergency Assistance Coalition of Community Ministries of Montgomery County. Olney Help, originally known as Olney Fish, was founded in 1969. Oakdale Emory provides many of the volunteers and also collects canned goods and dried foods for the Olney Help pantry.

Olney Help needs people to volunteer as Officer of the Day (OD), to deliver food to clients, or help sort food in the pantry. Each OD is assigned 1 or 2 days a month. The OD picks up the messages from the answering machine at Montgomery General Hospital and then, depending on the needs, calls either a food deliverer or the person on duty for financial help. Olney Help is also always in need of food donations and monetary donations so that it might continue to help those in need in our community. This is a way of expressing your faith in God by becoming aware of the needs in our community and doing something about those needs.

Contact:
Marilyn Simonds, Director
301-871-1609
mjsimonds@verizon.net