Rebuilding Homes and Lives in the Heart of Appalachia In rural Appalachia, the arrival of spring is a spectacle of nature’s revival, with early bloomers and budding trees painting the landscape in vibrant colors. Yet, beyond nature’s beauty, spring marks a...
Our home rehabilitation partners in Kentucky and West Virginia utilize grant funding to purchase items such as shingles for leaking roofs, drywall and lumber to fashion handicap ramps, sometimes very elaborate for the elderly and disabled living in homes on steep...
For many elderly and/or disabled homeowners in rural Appalachia, their home is the only asset they have – no savings accounts, no IRAs or 401(k)s – just struggling to get by from one month to the next on their meager Social Security benefits to put food on the table,...
For Americans Helping Americans® partner Big Creek People in Action, which operates a home rehab program in the summer in McDowell County, West Virginia, replacing leaking roofs are challenging, and expensive. “You need to know what you are going to do or you can...
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...
