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.
Mending Homes in the Appalachia also Mends Hearts.
Many of the homes we work with are in such disrepair that they are unlivable, but the expense of the repairs required is oftentimes too much for the residents to afford. Every year Americans Helping Americans helps fund volunteer groups assisting people like Mrs....
Summer Camps – Feeding Underprivileged Children in Appalachia
Did you know 77% of Appalachian children go without three meals a day? When school is out in Appalachia - the free or reduced school lunches end too. Our summer camps ensure underprivileged Appalachian children receive a nutritious meal each day at camp. Children are...
Bringing Sight to Some of our Nation’s Poorest
Americans Helping Americans® in partnerships with two local eye care providers in Northeast Tennessee has provided eye glasses to 82 patients since July 2011. Patients are referred to the program through Of One Accord’s food pantries and free clinic. Shelia is a 57...
Americans Helping Americans in the News
For Kicks: Head Start students receive new shoes through grant May 14,2012 By Magen McCrarey Staff Writer The Sentinel Echo LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. — Come-Unity Cooperative Care (CCC) untied a knot of financial tension for parents of Head Start children on Wednesday, when...
Angel Food Ministry Brings Hope
Many military families struggle to put food on the table. Thanks to your donations to Americans Helping Americans®, our community partner, Arms Outreach Ministries, is able to provide the food for hungry families through their Angel Food Ministry. Mr. and Mrs. "Jent"...
ABLE Families Helps Enable Children
Ashley is a 5th grader at Kermit Elementary School in Kermit, West Virginia. Each day when the bell rings at 3pm, she doesn’t head home. Instead, she attends Afterschool, a program sponsored by our community partner ABLE Families. At Afterschool, she has a safe place...