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.
65 Homes to Be Repaired Throughout Appalachia in 2022
One might say it takes a “village” to repair a house or mobile home to enable low-income elderly and disabled homeowners to be able to continue to live in the place they love and call home. But the reality is, it takes much more than that. It takes a small local...
Congratulations to Lev Burstein – Our Helper of the Month for March!
Americans Helping Americans® is honored to award Lev Burstein as our Helper of the Month for March. Congratulations, Lev! Lev Burstein, who is 13 years old, started Hot Sauce 4 Heat, which is dedicated to providing proceeds of every sale of its hot sauce to help...
Growing Gardens in Appalachia this Spring!
As spring has arrived (technically, anyway), our gardening programs in Kentucky and Virginia are working diligently to ensure they are ready to hit the ground running when it comes time to put seeds and seedling to ground. In Kentucky, our partner, the Puckett Family...
Home Renovations, Tutoring, and so much more in McDowell County, WV.
Although the year has just begun, our partner, Big Creek People in Action, in McDowell County has been operating its programs supported by Americans Helping Americans® at full steam ahead. Among them are its vocational tutoring program at the county’s Career &...
A science fair for the next generation of scientists
On Friday, April 22, the Heber Dunaway Gymnasium at Lee, Kentucky, County Middle High School in will be packed with students proudly showing off their science fair projects to their fellow classmates, teachers, parents, and, of course, the judges. And with the help of...
Beattyville and Lee County Bounding Back One Year After Devastating Historic Flooding
What a difference a year makes! On Monday, March 1, 2021, Lexington, Kentucky TV station LEX18 was reporting “Beattyville, a small mountain town in Kentucky, is under water following a downpour of rain this past weekend. Boats could be seen floating down Main Street....