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...
For teachers, particularly those working in hard-pressed Appalachian communities where their school districts struggle to fund even their core educational priorities, it is frustrating for them to be aware of classroom needs that would greatly benefit their students...
As we reflect on 2023, American Helping Americans (AHA) is immensely grateful for the positive impacts made in lifting up the underprivileged in the Appalachian region. Rural communities more so than urban experience the effects of poverty like food insecurity on a...