AAA employees and volunteers assemble children’s bicycles June 26 at the Hyatt Regency Kaanapali as part of a Maui United Way project to provide bikes to foster youth across Maui County. Photo courtesy of Maui United Way

AAA employees visiting Maui assembled and donated 102 bicycles for foster youth across Maui County during a community service project Friday at the Hyatt Regency Kaanapali.

Maui United Way brought together 175 AAA employees from across the nation for the bike-building event, which was part community service project and part team-building exercise.

The employees were divided into teams and took part in a friendly bike-building competition before the completed bicycles were distributed through community partners serving foster youth across Maui County.

Volunteers fill a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Kaanapali on June 26 as 175 AAA employees worked with Maui United Way to assemble 102 bicycles for local foster youth. Photo courtesy of Maui United Way

Maui United Way said the bicycles will go to foster youth, including keiki in Hana and children displaced by the 2023 wildfires.

Maui United Way is also supporting the Stuff the Bus school supplies drive set for July 12 at Raising Cane’s in Kahului.

Since 1945, Maui United Way has worked to support communities in Maui County through partnerships, direct services, advocacy and funding. Its focus areas include financial security, healthy communities, youth opportunity and community resiliency.

For more information, visit MauiUnitedWay.org.

Volunteers work on one of 102 bicycles assembled June 26 at the Hyatt Regency Kaanapali for foster youth, including keiki in Hana and children displaced by the 2023 wildfires. Photo courtesy of Maui United Way