A home with more people than rooms and no indoor plumbing is classified as substandard.
In some areas of Appalachia, nearly 17% of the homes meet these qualifications.
For this reason, Americans Helping Americans® supports local organizations in home repairs. We complete extensive home repairs, including, but not limited to, roof and floor repair, insulation and handicapped ramp installations in Appalachian communities in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee.
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 season of...
Through the Americans Helping Americans® Want2Work initiative, our partners – the Lee County and the Estill County Area Technology Centers (ATC), both located in Kentucky, and the Lee County Career and Technical Center (CTC) in Virginia – are helping to ensure that...
Throughout Appalachia, families living month-to-month or week-to-week struggle to get by working minimum wage jobs or relying on meager fixed incomes and government assistance to keep their children and themselves from going hungry. “For the past three years,...
Throughout Appalachia, children and families go hungry every day due to food insecurity issues, primarily because their limited financial resources mean that they are faced every month with the difficult decision of whether to pay their rent, utilities, or other...