Why Advocacy is Important.

Putting action into advocacy can be best exemplified in the manner in which FACAA works to help people.

Many examples of advocacy exist and continue to be of concern today. The advocacy and impact of the Grady Coalition, of which FACAA belongs, helped hundreds of thousands of Georgia citizens who would have suffered unnecessarily or died because they could not afford the rising costs of prescribed medicine. Controversial lending practices are exposed as poor citizens from other advocacy groups and FACAA's CACs (led by sincere local elected officials), expose predatory lending practices that cause them to lose their homes. Even still, many more thousands of Georgians would suffer with no heat during the winter had it not been for the courageous advocacy of the Fair Energy Committee which has advocated for lower energy costs, fair billing and sensitivity to the needs of poor seniors and low-income families. Meanwhile, The Voices of Hope Senior Citizens Choir lightens the hearts of the young, old, sick, enlightened, weak and strong.