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.
Congratulations to Sharon Stone – Our Helper of the Month for October!
Americans Helping Americans® is honored to award Sharon Stone as our Helper of the Month for October. Congratulations, Sharon! Sharon created the Free Book Bus; a mobile effort to bring books at no cost to children and young adults throughout Charlottesville City,...
Providing for Mighty Molars
In many places in rural Appalachia, toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental floss are not seen as basic needs for keeping children’s teeth clean and healthy, but sadly a “luxury” that many parents simply cannot afford. In fact, for these children, their parents have...
Georgia Partner Provides Healthcare to the Uninsured and Indigent
The mission of Americans Helping Americans® partner, Community Helping Hands Clinic in Cleveland, Georgia, is to provide healthcare to the “medically underserved” in White County where there is just one physician for every 4,100 residents – more than two-and-a-half...
Tutoring Programs Help Kids Catch Up
The McDowell County, West Virginia, Career & Technology Center partners with Big Creek People in Action, on a tutoring program for students who need additional help in specific academic areas. The program’s tutors, who are funded with grant money from Americans...
Barefoot September 2021
Big Creek People in Action in McDowell County, West Virginia has long been a partner of Americans Helping Americans® as we have worked together to provide needy children with backpacks filled with school supplies, and warm coats, hats and gloves to keep them warm all...
Food Boxes September
Throughout Appalachia, struggling families and the elderly and disabled getting by month to month on meager fixed incomes often have to make a difficult choice: pay their utility bills, rent -- or put food on the table for themselves and their children. But this...