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.
Appalachian Outreach Offers “A Home with a Heart”
Since 1987, Appalachian Outreach in Jefferson, Tennessee, has been operating Samaritan House, dubbed “A Home with a Heart,” where those in need can find shelter, counseling, social services and encouragement to build a better life. Since that time, hundreds of...
Remember Fellow Countrymen in Need on this Most Patriotic Holiday!
This Fourth of July marks the 238th anniversary commemorating the adoption by the founding fathers of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britian. Since 1990, Americans Helping Americans® has been aiding our fellow countrymen in need gain their own independence...
Celebrating Fathers and Father Figures
(pictured above: Eugene (Gene) Krizek, Founder and Volunteer Spokesperson for Americans Helping Americans,® with wife and sons.) During this Father’s Day celebration, we would like to thank all the outstanding fathers who we are honored to work with every year here at...
Education…For All Ages
Sticky fingers…on toys…or on computer keyboards, were all buzzing away at the community center in War, WV during the last weeks of May. Children had safe refuge and tutoring in the after-school programs. Adults were taking much-needed computer literacy training in...
Roofs, Ramps, Repairs…One Home at a Time
The pride of ownership was evident as we stepped through the front door of Mrs. Lund’s* home in Sneedville, Tennessee. Where last year the floor was buckling in, the roof was leaking, and the kitchen unusable, today the widowed mother and her ailing daughter could...
Honor Your Father by Making a Donation in His Name!
Honor the special men in your life by making a donation in their name to help fellow Americans in need! You can make your honor gift online today or, if you would like to print out and mail in our donation form (PDF) you can download it here. Thank you for making a...