On March 1, Americans Helping Americans® learned that the small town of Beattyville, Kentucky, and the surrounding Lee County where our partner Cumberland Mountain Outreach serves those most in need, suffered an historic and devastating flood. Thanks to our...
For years, one of Americans Helping Americans® main missions has been to help low-income homeowners, primarily the elderly and disabled, with critical repairs to their homes to fix leaking roofs, sagging floors and more, as well as to provide handicap ramps to enable...
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Americans Helping Americans® Hero of the Month is Raymond Tavita, who, after his wheelchair was stolen and his community stepped up to help him, has started his own nonprofit organization for wheelchair-bound individuals as a way to that kindness forward....
With the emergency flood relief grant funding received from Americans Helping Americans®, dozens of small businesses in downtown Beattyville, Kentucky which have been shuttered due to a once-in-a-lifetime flood earlier this month, they are now seeing a light at the...
With the historic flooding that has devastated downtown Beattyville, Kentucky, Americans Helping Americans® is stepping up with $85,000 in grant funding to assist dozens of families and an additional $50,000 to assist numerous small businesses in the downtown area...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...