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
school backpacks and supply kits distributed in time for Back to School in 2024
kids served at summer camps
students received vocational education and training
homes repaired and rebuilt in 2024
Featured Programs
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® Summer Feeding Program
Americans Helping Americans® is gearing up now to prepare for the summer when thousands of children in Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia will not be receiving the meals that they do when school is in session. Last year, Americans Helping Americans® teamed up with two of…
Flood Recovery in McDowell County: Rebuilding Homes in Appalachia After Disaster
In February 2025, McDowell County, West Virginia, was hit once again with historic flooding following “the worst floods” of 1977, 2001, and again in 2002, reports The Appalachian Voice. “But now,” it reported in July 2025, “the new benchmark for horrible flooding will…
Poverty Alleviation in America: Understanding the Problem and the Solutions
In 2023, the official poverty rate in the U.S. was 11.1%, meaning more than 36 million Americans were living in poverty, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s nearly one in every nine people facing daily challenges to meet basic needs like food,…
Free Healthcare for Uninsured Families in Rural Georgia | Community Helping Hands Clinic
Gene White, executive director Free healthcare for low-income, uninsured residents of White County, a rural, underserved county in north Georgia. Community Helping Hands Clinic, Inc. (CHHC) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that is the only free health clinic…
He Spent Years Helping Others—Then He Needed Help Himself
“We love our porch, it’s really nice,” Vickie told Americans Helping Americans® staff on a visit to McDowell County last June. “Y’all have done a lot for us.” Chester Ball is an accomplished bluegrass musician living in McDowell County, where Americans Helping…
From Shelter to Stability: Support at AMOS Samaritan House
Americans Helping Americans® partner in Jefferson City, Tennessee, Appalachian Ministries of the Smokies (AMOS) describes itself as “a poverty relief ministry in partnership with the community that began in 1984 through the Campus Ministries Department at…