Our Mission is to join communities, build and strengthen neighbor relations, and work side by side with residents to address community-wide concerns linking resources supportive of a healthy, safe and economically vibrant standard of living.
Our goal is to ease unnecessary and chronic suffering by creating long-term solutions to the problems of hunger, limited education, substandard housing and insufficient medical care.
While summer brings joy and freedom for many children, it also brings a troubling gap in food access for thousands across Appalachia. Americans Helping Americans® is proud to partner with two incredible grassroots organizations to launch summer feeding...
In towns across Appalachia, where economic hardship runs deep, homes are being made habitable once again, and lives are being quietly transformed. “She never asked for help—but received it anyway.” —On Santana’s return to a safe home One of those lives belongs to...
Earlier this year, historic floodwaters tore through rural Appalachian communities in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia, leaving devastation in their wake. Families were forced from their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs, seeking...
Americans Helping Americans® works tirelessly to remove educational roadblocks for children and youth in distressed Appalachian communities with limited resources, high poverty rates, and a lack of access to basic educational tools—barriers that many students struggle...