AUGUSTA, Ga () – Sunday is National Overdose Awareness Day and several organizations came together Saturday offering recovery resources.

Open Arms Outreach Augusta was on Washington Rd. and the Kroc Center handing out life-saving supplies including free Narcan, Fentanyl test strips and other life saving essentials.

They will also help people get insurance, and into treatment or rehab.

An official with Open Arms Outreach Augusta tells me they recently partnered with Good Neighbor Ministries and are officially a non-profit.

This means they are able to apply for grants so they can pay for people to get into treatment facilities.

“Me and the other Co-Founder of Open Arms Outreach, Dolly, are both women in long term recovery so we’ve been right where these people are at and we understand that society may have written people off but if somebody is here to love you and say ‘hey we haven’t given up on you’ then it gives a little bit of hope,” said Nicoll Gentry, Co-Founder of Open Arms Outreach Augusta.

In Flight Missions also taking part in the event by handing out free hamburgers, drinks, snacks and t-shirts.

The Co-Founder of In Flight Missions, Gary Caudill, tells me that their services are available to anyone who needs them.

“Whether they’re down and out, maybe they’re looking for a home, it could be any number of things, you can check out our website at inflightmissions.org and the people can actually go and submit a request for help and we go into overtime trying to figure out how we can help them and if we can’t we try to bridge the gap and find the resource for them that can help them,” Caudill said.

The founders of Ready or Not Ministries partnered with Open Arms Outreach Augusta and were at the Kroc Center handing out clothes, free shower vouchers and much more.

They say they this is personal for them to be out in the community helping those in need.

“We all are in recovery from addiction, we were homeless, dealt with mental health ourselves and so through the grace of Jesus Christ we are free so we wanted to come out to give to the community,” said Myles Lance, Founder of Ready or Not Ministries.

Toni Tompkins, Founder of Ready or Not Ministries said, “I know for me when I was homeless there was so many people that came and poured into me and sowed those seeds into me and I didn’t realize what was going on until years later now that I’m surrendered to Christ that those people were sent in my path for a reason and so I want to be the person that I needed when I was out there.”  

If you or someone you know is interested in speaking with Open Arms Outreach Augusta, you can contact them through email at narcan.augusta@gmail.com or follow them on Facebook at Open Arms Outreach Augusta.