Locals host household item giveaway, provide needed goods for 200

PERRY, Ga. — She’s an employee for Walgreens corporate. He’s the owner of a local business, Jackson’s Autocare Pressure Washing Services. Together, they’re working to help those in need in Houston County, make their community a better place and leave a legacy of good.

Jessica Law and Leon Jackson, two locals living in Houston County, gathered together with the help of the HALO Group to give away household goods to those in need. The rest, the remaining paper products, snacks, cleaning supplies and laundry detergents, were given to the HALO Group to assist their efforts.

Between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. Saturday morning, Law, Jackson and several volunteers from the HALO Group passed out these supplies from the back parking lot of the New Perry Hotel.

“We got together and we gave out household supplies to at least 200 people,” Law said. “Some of the people drove up and picked up the bags, but the majority of them we gave out to people across the street at the Swan Motel.”

This was not the first time Law has done something like this.

This all started in 2021, after the COVID-19 pandemic made landfall in the United States and became widespread news, and household goods were in limited supply at stores — to assist her community, Law helped to organize her first household goods giveaway.

With new hardships for Houston County’s community in 2023, Law said the work hasn’t stopped.

Due to concerns over inflated product prices, ongoing shortages and an increase in the price of gas, Law and Jackson organized another giveaway with a similar goal as the first — to help the community in it’s time of need.

They used funds provided by sponsors — and Law used her employee discount due to her position with Walgreens — to purchase a mass of supplies. Those goods were divided up and put into bags, and then placed in people’s vehicles, atop bike handles or into passerby hands.

Law said that at one point, she was in need of a giveaway like this one. Now that she’s in a place where she can give back, that’s the work that she hopes to do — and she plans to fill a need she finds provided for less often than others.

“Right now, household goods seem to be the biggest challenge for people to be able to get into a store and afford,” Law said. “People are able to get access to food quicker because of food banks … they’re always giving out food, but you don’t hear about anyone giving out household supplies, I’ve never heard of anybody, any food banks or non-profits giving out household goods to people.”

Law told The Journal she is preparing for another household supply giveaway, this one in June. As more information becomes available on this event, you can read about it in the Houston Home Journal.

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