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.
Winter Coats Make for Warm Kids and Adults, and Warm Hearts
In places such as War, West Virginia, Rogersville, Tennessee and Cleveland, Georgia, temperatures can hover around freezing during the months of January and February for days, or even weeks, at a time. Now, try to put yourself in the place of a young boy or girl...
After-School Programs Provide Tutoring, and So Much More
A little more than 30 miles south of Washington, D.C., there is a community named Triangle, Virginia. Located in Triangle, there is a large low-income apartment complex known as Melrose Apartments. But besides being affordable, what may attract many families to choose...
Helping Communities Brave the Cold
Life can take unexpected turns, but many in Appalachia lack the resources to prepare for these surprises. One family we helped fell on hard times when their daughter had a stroke during her sixth month of her pregnancy. The family was living in a trailer with pieces...
Utility Assistance Programs Save Lives in Appalachia
Food or heat? Rent or electricity? Life or death? Many living in Appalachia have to face these hard choices each day. When choosing to buy food for their children, or pay the rent to avoid eviction, coming up with the money to prevent the utilities from being turned...
Frozen Turkeys and the Fixings Make the Holidays Warm!
Imagine Thanksgiving Day without a hot meal, much less a delicious turkey dinner with stuffing, sweet potatoes, and, of course, pumpkin pie, and eating so much it’s hard to get up from the table. For many Americans, they don’t have to imagine it – they live it. What...
You Still Have Time!
On Veterans Day, we thanked those for their service and sacrifice to our country. But just because November 11 has come and gone, doesn’t mean that we forget about the former members of the military who struggle day in and day out to put food on their table, or our...