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.
New Shoes for School!
Your support allows Americans Helping Americans to give money for new shoes and other back-to-school gear that helps children to feel confident and succeed in school. As a little girl from Georgia said, "I can go to school and no one can make fun of me. I have nice...
Volunteers Discover More Need in Georgia
Volunteers discover more need while distributing sandwiches at a summer school in Georgia. Some of the children were in desperate need of hygiene supplies and were so disadvantaged, they'd never owned their own books. They were so happy to receive help. The mother of...
One Father’s Story of Heartbreak and Healing
On this Father’s Day we salute fathers like Billy, a father whose life was changed by your support and his family now has hope for the future. We met Billy through our summer home repair team that was working on his aunt's house which was located in front of his. She...
WE MOVED!
It's time to update your address books!Our new address, effective immediately is:Americans Helping Americans® 8301 Richmond Highway, Suite 100Alexandria, VA 22309
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With Your Support We Helped 12,198 Children in 2012!
This winter when it came time to sit down and tally up figures for 2012, we were overwhelmed by the amount of good our supporters had helped us accomplish. Just looking at our youth programs alone, the number 12,198 jumped out at us. That’s the number of kids and...