by admin | Sep 10, 2019 | Education, Featured, General, Home Page, News, Youth Programs, Youth Programs
Thursday, August 15, was the exciting start of a new school year for the children who attend Southside K-8 school in McDowell County, West Virginia. An equally exciting day was Tuesday, August 20, for about two dozen or so Southside students who are fortunate enough...
by admin | Aug 28, 2019 | Basic Needs, Featured, Home Page, News, Wellness
In White County, Georgia there is but one primary care physician for 4,130 residents – ten times the national average of 1 doctor per 435 patients. In addition, 16 out of every 100 county residents lack health insurance and cannot afford preventative care, or to pay...
by admin | Aug 27, 2019 | Basic Needs, Featured, General, Home Page, News, Uncategorized
Five Loaves & Two Fishes is located on Coal Heritage Road (US-52) in the small community of Kimball about five miles from Welch, the county seat of McDowell County, West Virginia, arguably among the poorest counties in the country. The county, once thriving in the...
by admin | Aug 19, 2019 | Basic Needs, Education, Featured, Home Page, Home Rehabilitation, News, Youth Programs
Our friends at Big Creek People in Action in War, West Virginia, one of the groups Americans Helping Americans has been supporting for nearly 20 years, have made a big impact on their community. With our help, they have repaired what seems to be every other house on...
by admin | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured, Home Page, News, Youth Programs, Youth Programs
Earlier this summer, I spent some time “being a kid” at summer camps in small towns throughout Appalachia. In Kentucky and West Virginia at summer camps that are sponsored by Americans Helpings Americans, children find a place where they can be with friends and learn...
