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.
Back to school kits
For the vast majority of American children -- and their parents -- back to school time is a time of eager anticipation and excitement when students will be reunited with their old friends who they may not have seen since the last day of school and to start to make new...
Congratulations to Eliot Middleton – Our Helper of the Month for July!
Americans Helping Americans® is honored to award Eliot Middleton our Helper of the Month Award for July. Congratulations, Eliot! Eliot Middleton lives in rural McClellanville, South Carolina, where public transportation and ride share services don't exist. Since 2020,...
Congratulations to Zohiab Begg – Our Helper of the Month for June!
Americans Helping Americans® is honored to award Zohiab Begg our Helper of the Month Award for June. Congratulations, Zohiab! Last year, 8-year-old Zohiab made headlines as he gathered personal protective equipment for frontline workers battling COVID-19 in Virginia....
These Wheels Will Help So Much
Our longtime partner in Beattyville, Kentucky, Cumberland Mountain Outreach, is a small grassroots non-profit organization focused on helping those most in need in the hard-pressed, rural Appalachian community – especially children and senior citizens. In the past...
Congratulations to Marjy Stagmeier – Our Helper of the Month for May!
Americans Helping Americans® is honored to award Marjy Stagmeier and her team at Star-C programs our Helper of the Month Award for May. Congratulations, Marjy! Marjy Stagmeier is a landlord with a good heart who started the charity Star-C Programs to help pay for the...
Lunch Box bus
On Tuesday, June 1 the wheels of the Lunch Box Bus, operated by our partner, Of One Accord, will be rolling again on the winding rural roads of Hancock and Hawkins counties in East Tennessee delivering meals to hungry children living in isolated pockets of poverty....