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.
Americans Helping Americans Provides Funds to Businesses so they can reopen.
With the emergency flood relief grant funding received from Americans Helping Americans®, dozens of small businesses in downtown Beattyville, Kentucky which have been shuttered due to a once-in-a-lifetime flood earlier this month, they are now seeing a light at the...
Americans Helping Americans® pledges 50K to support flooded businesses in Beattyville, KY
With the historic flooding that has devastated downtown Beattyville, Kentucky, Americans Helping Americans® is stepping up with $85,000 in grant funding to assist dozens of families and an additional $50,000 to assist numerous small businesses in the downtown area...
Helper of the Month
Americans Helping Americans is honored to award February’s Helper of the Month Award to the generous and courageous hundreds of women and men of Houston, Texas, who have selflessly opened their homes, their businesses, and their pocketbooks, to help the tens of...
HELPER OF THE MONTH
She saw a cry for help and saved his days from further abuse. Americans Helping Americans is honored to award the first Helper of the Month Award of 2021, with a $500 grant to waitress, Flavaine Carvalho, for her quick thinking and courageous actions in spotting a...
CHILDREN ARE THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF POVERTY
Children are too often the most innocent victims of the vicious cycle of poverty that AHA has worked for decades to help overcome. Whether suffering from hunger, because their out-of-work parents can’t provide food or these days, school is not in session and the...
Introducing the Little Red Riding Hood Food Delivery Program in Beattyville, Kentucky
In rural Lee County, Kentucky, considered by The New York Times as one of the “hardest” places to live in the country, the elderly, disabled, and struggling families rely primarily on their family members and friends to bring them their groceries. But now, our partner...