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.

WHAT WE DO ⎯

Featured Programs

Each program answers a practical need: reliable meals, safer homes, school support, and essentials that help families stabilize.

Food Box Program

Provides food boxes, each enough to feed a family of four for a week, to communities facing food insecurity.

Education Program

Offers academic assistance, school supplies, and support that helps children stay ready to learn.

Home Rehabilitation

Repairs roofs, floors, porches, stairs, and other safety risks so families can live with dignity.

Basic Needs

Provides essentials such as coats, blankets, footwear, dental kits, and emergency utility assistance.

OUR MISSION ⎯

Breaking the cycle of poverty in Appalachia

Generations of families in Appalachia face limited access to essentials, stable housing, transportation, health care, and education. Americans Helping Americans strengthens community-led work so local partners can respond with speed, trust, and care.

Food Access

Delivering steady food support to families who might otherwise go without reliable meals.

Safe Housing

Repairing and rebuilding homes so seniors, families, and disabled residents can live safely.

Education & Training

Equipping students and adults with supplies, support, and training that widen opportunity.

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.

Your gift helps local partners act quickly.

Every contribution supports practical resources like food boxes, home repairs, school supplies, emergency aid, and basic needs assistance.

LATEST UPDATES ⎯

Stories & News

Recent stories from the communities, partners, and families connected to Americans Helping Americans.

Americans Helping Teachers 2023-2024 Grant Recipients

  Americans Helping Americans® Americans Helping Teachers program was developed with the goal of providing teachers and other educators to help their students and overall school communities with grant funding to meet unaddressed, and unfunded classroom needs….

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Over 2,500 boxes on their way to families this month.

To help alleviate food insecurity in distressed Appalachian communities in Georgia, Kentucky, West Virginia and elsewhere, with the help of our supporters from across the country, Americans Helping Americans® is planning on shipping 2,520 food boxes to our partners…

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Project Backpack for 5,500 Students

Meeting the Educational Needs of Underprivileged Students Americans Helping Americans® is excited to contribute to the success of young students by providing essential school kits filled with pencils, notebooks, and other necessary supplies. With the start of the new…

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