Hancock County, Tennessee, where our longtime partner, Of One Accord, operates, is the state’s lowest-income county where some one-third of its residents are unemployed, according to its executive director, Sheldon Livesay. Life is hard for families struggling just to...
While Georgia is a southern state, that does not mean that its residents are immune from cold winter weather. In the small towns of Gainesville and Cleveland, located in the northern Appalachian region of the state where our partner's LAMP Ministries and Caring Hands...
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Tuesday, January 5th marked the beginning of the spring semester at Lee District Elementary School in Beattyville, Kentucky, where so many children have been struggling to learn virtually at home since last March. While it’s a challenge for any child to have to learn...
We are honored, and humbled, to wish our visionary founder, Gene Krizek, a hearty 93rd Happy Birthday. A former Congressional Administrative Assistant, a retired Foreign Service Officer and a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force, Eugene “Gene” Krizek served...
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With the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of relenting anytime in the coming weeks and months until vaccines are widely available, we at Americans Helping Americans® have recently reached out to our grassroots partners in West Virginia and the Appalachian...
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Right now and through the winter, our utility assistance program will help keep the lights and heat on and the water running for 750 families in distressed regions throughout Appalachia. Among these places is Jefferson City, Tennessee, where our longtime partner...
Among the greatest needs our partner in Cleveland, Georgia, Caring Hands Ministries, sees is families requesting help in paying their utility bills when they are down on their luck. “Utility help assists clients with verifiable needs and no other resources are...