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A safe home is the foundation for nearly every other kind of progress, notes Americans Helping Americans® executive director Cameron Krizek. “Yet many low-income homeowners in Appalachia remain in houses with failing roofs, unsafe wiring, inadequate plumbing, damaged...
Serving Grainger, Cocke, Jefferson, and Hamblen counties in northeastern Appalachian Tennessee, Appalachian Ministries of the Smokies (AMOS), located in Jefferson City, strives to provide a holistic community approach to service, as it has for more than four decades....
Americans Helping Americans® Provides New Tools for Home Repairs On Wednesday, June 10, staff members from Americans Helping Americans® were in the tiny West Virginia community of Caretta to present a check for $2,500 for new tools to Dyanne Spriggs, executive...
Appalachia is a widely used name for a multi-state region in the eastern United States, shaped by shared geography, history, and economic conditions. For official federal regional planning and data collection, the Appalachian Region is defined using a county-based...