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Home Rehab Season has begun!

Home Rehab Season has begun!

On Saturday, March 9, the first of dozens of students from the University of Richmond, Notre Dame University and Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, will be descending on McDowell County, West Virginia for their spring breaks. Instead on lounging on a beach...

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Medical Program History

Medical Program History

For the past nearly 15 years Americans Helping Americans® has been helping people throughout Appalachia see, eat and smile better through our eyeglasses and dental programs, as well as providing them with emergency medical assistance for necessary prescriptions in...

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Mighty Molars Dental Kits

Mighty Molars Dental Kits

“Wow, I have my own toothbrush,” one young girl exclaimed after receiving a Mighty Molars dental kit from Americans Helping Americans® partner in Beattyville, Kentucky, the Lee County Family Resource Center (LCFRC). “Now, I don’t have to share with my brother and...

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Bridging the Digital Divide

Bridging the Digital Divide

This Christmas, 30 students at Beattyville Elementary School in Lee County, Kentucky received the best Christmas present of their young lives – an all-in-one desktop computer – and that number does not take into account their school-age siblings who will also be...

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Giving Tuesday – #Coats4Americans

Giving Tuesday – #Coats4Americans

Putting on a warm winter coat before walking to the bus on a frigid December morning is something most children in the United States take for granted – in some cases they even have to be reminded by the moms or dads to put on a coat before heading out the door. This...

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Winter Coats for Kentucky

Winter Coats for Kentucky

The distribution of winter coats at the headquarters of our partnerCome-Unity Cooperative Care (CCC) in Laurel County, Kentucky was orderly and efficient. That’s not an easy thing to accomplish when there are 276 coats to be distributed to children in need. First off,...

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