As a flood warning remained in effect for Lee County, Kentucky, on March 1 dozens of homes were flooded causing evacuations in the small town of Beattyville with county officials using dump trucks to help people escape from their homes following a heavy rain day...
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Helper of the Month
Americans Helping Americans is honored to award February’s Helper of the Month Award to the generous and courageous hundreds of women and men of Houston, Texas, who have selflessly opened their homes, their businesses, and their pocketbooks, to help the tens of...
HELPER OF THE MONTH
She saw a cry for help and saved his days from further abuse. Americans Helping Americans is honored to award the first Helper of the Month Award of 2021, with a $500 grant to waitress, Flavaine Carvalho, for her quick thinking and courageous actions in spotting a...
CHILDREN ARE THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF POVERTY
Children are too often the most innocent victims of the vicious cycle of poverty that AHA has worked for decades to help overcome. Whether suffering from hunger, because their out-of-work parents can’t provide food or these days, school is not in session and the...
Introducing the Little Red Riding Hood Food Delivery Program in Beattyville, Kentucky
In rural Lee County, Kentucky, considered by The New York Times as one of the “hardest” places to live in the country, the elderly, disabled, and struggling families rely primarily on their family members and friends to bring them their groceries. But now, our partner...
Eyeglasses Distribution Jan. 2021
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...
Keeping the heat on for families in Georgia
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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The Digital Divide is wider than ever in Kentucky. We aim to bridge it.
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...
Eugene L. Krizek (Col. USAF (Retired)), Founder, Americans Helping Americans®
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...