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October News
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Your support and Appalachian Outreach’s hard work saved this small house in rural Tennessee
This summer, despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, our partner in Jefferson City, Tennessee, Appalachian Outreach (AO),was able to soldier on with its home rehabilitation program ensuring that local residents in need could continue living in the homes...
September News
Here are the latest news articles from throughout Appalachia that we're currently following. We hope each one will inspire, motivate, educate, and even challenge you. As an Appalachian-focused organization, we also take pride in letting our partners direct us to where...
Whether in school or virtual learning, these kids need new shoes
Throughout Appalachia, it not uncommon, in fact, it’s more likely the norm, that children show up for school wearing worn out, hand-me-down shoes, often with more “hole” than “soul,” or even worse, arriving for class wearing nothing but flip-flops on the coldest days...
Flash Drives for Young Minds in Beattyville, Kentucky
For many Appalachian parents, being able to support the educational efforts of their children can be challenging. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic continuing to plague the communities you help us serve, the topic that is on most parents' minds is what they're going...
Coronavirus Learning Pods will keep kids safe in Kentucky this school year
Our partner in Beattyville, Kentucky, Cumberland Mountain Outreach (CMO) each summer (with the exception of this one) hosts a summer camp for elementary and middle school-age children. After spending many years at the camp, CMO executive director Cindy Evanoff selects...
These supplies really make a world of difference to these children
Among our partners throughout Appalachia who receive hundreds of backpacks filled with school supplies for elementary and middle school students each year is Caring Hands Ministries in Gainesville, Georgia. Our partners know who in their communities need the limited...
Whether in-person or virtual, kids throughout Appalachia are in need of school supplies
About this time every year, children throughout the United States begin looking forward to returning to school where they receive free meals every day, reunite with the friends who they may not have seen all summer long and participate in the joy of learning. For...
The state of our partners throughout Appalachia
The Coronavirus Can’t Stop This Vocational Tutoring Program
Our longtime partner in McDowell County, West Virginia, Big Creek People in Action, has for several years been collaborating with the McDowell County Career & Technology Center on a tutoring program for students who need additional help in specific academic areas....
Home Repairs Continue Thanks To Our Supporters and Partner, Appalachian Outreach
Appalachian Outreach, our longtime partner in Jefferson City, Tennessee, provides food, clothing, furniture and household items as well as providing temporary home shelter at its Samaritan House Family Shelter where mothers with children get assistance with housing,...
Operation Feed Sneedville to serve low-income families in Hancock County, Tennessee
Hancock County is one of six distressed counties in Tennessee and the home to the small, rural town of Sneedville, pop. 1,336, where our longtime partner, Of One Accord, operates a food pantry. “Hancock County (Sneedville) is the lowest-income county in the state,”...