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.
One Home Repair Recipient Expressed Her Gratitude by Teaching Others to Quilt
The Spencers, an elderly couple received a new wheelchair ramp and new roof through the graciousness of your donations. Two weeks ago, our community partner, Appalachian Outreach had the opportunity to serve an elderly couple needing a wheelchair ramp and a new roof....
Eyes Wide Open
In partnerships with two local eye care providers and Of One Accord Ministry in Northeast Tennessee, we've provided eye glasses to 78 patients since July 2011. Patients are referred to the program through Of One Accord's food pantries and free clinic. One recent...
Spotlight on Recipients
Veterans and Active Military Receive Thanksgiving DinnersThrough Our Homeland Military Relief Program! Americans Helping Americans® supports many local grassroots programs throughout the country. Through our Homeland Military Relief program, our spotlight recipients,...
Tornado Relief – Easing the Devastation
In response to the devastating tornadoes that recently beset parts of our country, Americans Helping Americans is sending supplies to Mobile, Alabama, Newcastle, Oklahoma, and Joplin, Missouri. You can help us provide: 600 hygiene kits (soap, shampoo,...
Vet Sends Note of Gratitude – For Food Boxes
"I would like to once again thank you from the bottom of my heart for yet another wonderful Angel Food Veterans Food Box. I am continually appreciative in receiving these Gifts from Heaven during the times in my life that continue to change. In receiving these...
Home Repair – Together we are Laying a Foundation for the Future!
Support from our donors carried so many Appalachian families through the darkest, hungriest, coldest moments of this harsh winter. Now that spring has arrived many families face home repair concerns with leaky roofs, loose rocks and mud. Our home repair programs have...