by admin | Sep 17, 2019 | Basic Needs, Featured, General, Home Page, News, Youth Programs, Youth Programs
The purpose of Americans Helping Americans® partner Raleigh Rescue Mission’s back-to-school school supplies distribution is two-fold, explained the organization’s director of strategic initiatives Christine Montague-Hicks. First, it provides children with the...
by admin | Sep 17, 2019 | Basic Needs, Featured, Home Page, News, Youth Programs, Youth Programs
On any given day, 40 homeless children will be fed, cared for, educated and counseled through the Children’s New Life Plan (CNLP) operated by Americans Helping Americans® partner in North Carolina, the Raleigh Rescue Mission (RRM). For parents entering the RRM’s...
by admin | Sep 13, 2019 | Barefeet, Basic Needs, Featured, Home Page, News, Personal Stories, Youth Programs
With school now in session and cold weather approaching, children throughout Appalachia are in need of new shoes. To meet this need, through our Barefeet program, children are taken to a shoe store and are able to pick out EXACTLY what pair of shoes they want each...
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 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...
