Helping Appalachia Communities with Food and Essential Resources
Our Mission is to join communities, build and strengthen neighbor relations, and work side by side with residents to address community-wide concerns linking them to the resources supportive of a healthy, safe and economically vibrant standard of living.
food boxes distributed last year, each food box enough to feed a family of four for a week
children received school supplies to get a good education in 2025.
kids participated in summer camps.
students received vocational education, training, and professional equipment.
home repair projects completed in 2025.
Featured Programs
Food Box Program
Provides thousands of food boxes, each enough to feed a family of 4 for a week, to communities in need.
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Offers children academic assistance, school supplies and the support they need to be successful in school.
HOME REHABILITATION
Provides families with safe and stable housing, including repairing roofs, floors, rotting porches and stairs and more .
BASIC NEEDS
Provides essentials such as coats, blankets, footwear, and dental kits, along with grants to local partners for utility bill assistance, preventing evictions, and ensuring electricity for medical needs.
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in Appalachia
Generations of families in Appalachia face crushing poverty and limited opportunities. Americans Helping Americans works to provide essential resources—food, housing, education, and more—to empower these communities and create lasting change.
OUR PARTNERS
We are thankful for the organizations who have partnered with Americans Helping Americans to make positive changes to the lives of many in our nation.
OUR IMPACT
Learn about ways that Americans Helping Americans is making a difference in the lives of families and individuals in our communities.
There are many ways you can help support Americans Helping Americans® and our important programs.
After School Tutoring can be so much more than academics
Elementary school students attending the Big Creek People in Action's (BCPIA) afterschool program in McDowell County, West Virginia, know that thanks to Americans Helping Americans each evening before they go home they will receive a nice supper, along with the...
Transforming Challenges into Hope: The Heartwarming Journey of Home Rehabilitation in Kentucky and West Virginia
Our home rehabilitation partners in Kentucky and West Virginia utilize grant funding to purchase items such as shingles for leaking roofs, drywall and lumber to fashion handicap ramps, sometimes very elaborate for the elderly and disabled living in homes on steep...
Empowering Appalachia: AHA’s Lifeline of Utility Assistance and Hope in January 2024
Right now in the hills and hollers of Appalachia, families and senior citizens are hunkering down and doing their best to keep warm in their homes while being faced with the sad choice of paying their utility bill or putting food on the table. But thanks to our...
It’s a Time for Giving at Americans Helping Americans
At Americans Helping Americans®, we are proud to collaborate closely with our partners in Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia to bring holiday cheer to hundreds of families and children in Appalachian communities facing economic distress. In Jefferson City,...
They all say ‘thank you,’ and this food is a blessing for them
At Americans Helping Americans® through our basic needs program, we strive to provide food to struggling families and the elderly and disabled on meager fixed incomes living in distressed Appalachian communities. Our food support program includes distributing...
A Summer of Memories, and Meal, for Hundreds of Appalachian children
A Summer of Memories, and Meal, for Hundreds of Appalachian children Summer's over for children throughout Appalachia, and school has resumed. Hundreds of children have exciting stories to share when asked, "What did you do this summer?" “Afterschool all...