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.
These supplies really make a world of difference to these children
Among our partners throughout Appalachia who receive hundreds of backpacks filled with school supplies for elementary and middle school students each year is Caring Hands Ministries in Gainesville, Georgia. Our partners know who in their communities need the limited...
Whether in-person or virtual, kids throughout Appalachia are in need of school supplies
About this time every year, children throughout the United States begin looking forward to returning to school where they receive free meals every day, reunite with the friends who they may not have seen all summer long and participate in the joy of learning. For...
The state of our partners throughout Appalachia
The Coronavirus Can’t Stop This Vocational Tutoring Program
Our longtime partner in McDowell County, West Virginia, Big Creek People in Action, has for several years been collaborating with the McDowell County Career & Technology Center on a tutoring program for students who need additional help in specific academic areas....
Home Repairs Continue Thanks To Our Supporters and Partner, Appalachian Outreach
Appalachian Outreach, our longtime partner in Jefferson City, Tennessee, provides food, clothing, furniture and household items as well as providing temporary home shelter at its Samaritan House Family Shelter where mothers with children get assistance with housing,...
Operation Feed Sneedville to serve low-income families in Hancock County, Tennessee
Hancock County is one of six distressed counties in Tennessee and the home to the small, rural town of Sneedville, pop. 1,336, where our longtime partner, Of One Accord, operates a food pantry. “Hancock County (Sneedville) is the lowest-income county in the state,”...