Mahala Club donates $15,000 check to Habitat for Humanity

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Perry’s Mahala Club works to serve the community of Houston County — it’s the nonprofits mission. On Tuesday, the club presented a check in the amount of $15,340 to Houston County’s Habitat for Humanity group to ensure they could continue to offer homes to those in need here in central Georgia. Mahala Club Board Co-chair Meg Adkins provided details on how it all happened.

“We raised over $15,000 in our touch-a-truck event, which we had set aside for Habitat for Humanity in Houston County,” Adkins said. “Tuesday, we met them out at their Gordy Street home in Perry that they’re currently under construction with and presented them with the $15,000 check.”

Mahala’s work in the community is not anything new — in the past, they’ve joined forces with local schools to hold a fundraising auction. Post pandemic, they’ve rerouted their efforts and continue to have an impact on their community.

Their general mission allows the group to serve by doing a large swathe of events, big and small. In months and years past, the group has donated books, supported other Perry nonprofits like FOPAS, the Rainbow House and the Abba House, or planted flowers at civic buildings city-wide.

In April, the nonprofit hosted a touch-a-truck event outside the Guardian Center, inviting locals to come out and get up close and personal with vehicles commonly used by first responders, military members and construction and utility workers. A small fee was charged to each attendee, allowing the group to raise money through attendance, while local businesses and organizations offered donations of larger sums. Thirty-two exhibits were available on site.

As a result, Mahala was able to pay into the efforts of Habitat for Humanity, assisting in the build of future-homeowner and veteran Brandon Waters. When Waters’ home is complete, the remaining funds will be used in building other homes in the Perry area.

Adkins thanked the Guardian Center for being the nonprofit’s site sponsor, as well as groups like Loden Dental, Morris Bank, Parrish Construction Group and other local businesses for assistance in making their donation possible. According to Adkins, sponsors could help at multiple levels of sponsorship, and each played a tremendous role in the event’s success.

The Mahala Club will break for summer to spend time with their children and will pick back up with the start of fall. When they return, they’ll continue to do the necessary work to serve their community.

Adkins said she hopes they will return to the touch-a-truck event next spring.

For more information on Perry’s Mahala Club, visit their website at www.mahalatouchatruck.org, or their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/MahalaClubPerryGA.

“[Mahala Club] is a group of ladies that care very much about Perry and the young families in our area,” Adkins closed. “We just want to do everything we can to support the community.”

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