Join ABC15, Earnhardt Auto Centers to Recycle Your Bicycle for a child in foster care
Have an extra bike you no longer use? Donate it to a child in foster care!
PHOENIX – Have an extra bike you no longer use? Donate it to a child in foster care!
ABC15 and Earnhardt Auto Centers have kick off the two thousand seventeen Recycle Your Bicycle campaign on August twenty eight to help Arizona kids in the foster care system.
Via the month of September Earnhardt Auto Centers will collect fresh and gently used bicycles at all twenty one dealerships across the Valley:
10685 W Papago Fwy
Avondale, AZ 85323
10151 W Papago Fwy
Avondale, AZ 85323
10401 W Papago Fwy
Avondale, AZ 85323
1450 S Gilbert Rd
Chandler, AZ 85286
7300 W Orchid Ln
Chandler, AZ 85226
1521 E Drivers Way
Gilbert, AZ 85297
3252 S Auto Way
Gilbert, AZ 85297
13680 W Test Dr
Goodyear, AZ 85338
6315 E Auto Park Dr
6136 E Auto Loop Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85022
5600 E Market St
Prescott Valley, AZ 86314
7901 E Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
8445 E Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
800 E. Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ 85014
15350 N Hayden Rd
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
17431 N 91st Ave
Peoria, AZ 85382
1521 E Drivers Way
Gilbert, AZ 85297
1489 E Motorplex Loop
Gilbert, AZ 85297
2121 N Arizona Ave
Chandler, AZ 85225
12925 N. Autoshow Ave
Surprise, AZ 85388
On Thursday, Sept. 14, ABC15 will host a phone bank from 9–Ten a.m. and Four–7 p.m. to collect cash donations for the effort. Those donations will go to buy bike supplies like tubes, tires, fresh seats and cleaning supplies.
The Arizona Association for Foster & Adoptive Parents will help distribute all the bicycles collected during the drive to children during this winter`s holiday season. The organization`s aim is to support, educate, empower and provide a unified voice for Arizona`s foster and adoptive families with enlargening the well-being and stability of the state`s most vulnerable children.
Children in foster care have an especially raunchy life. Many times, they inject foster care with no more than the clothes on their back. Our playmates at Recycle Your Bicycle want to make sure every child can participate in a normal part of growing up – railing a bike.
“One mom who got a bike last year told us that ‘bikes have heart healing powers,'” said Joe Jacober, coordinator of the Recycle Your Bicycle program. “We are amazed and grateful at how our community comes together to help us make sure that vulnerable children in foster care have a ‘very first bike’ memory like every other kid.”
Recycle your Bicycle embarked in two thousand nine with one volunteer and one bike. Over the years, it has grown into a year-round collection effort. In 2016, the program distributed more than one thousand bikes.
«Earnhardt Auto Centers has partnered with ABC15 and the Recycle Your Bicycle Program for several years. The participation from the Phoenix community, combined with the enthusiasm of our staff has just been amazing,» said Tex Earnhardt, founder, Earnhardt Auto Centers. «The number of bicycles donated is growing each year and as a result, even more deserving kids in the Arizona Foster Care Program have benefited. We absolutely love this Program and are looking forward to participating again this year.»
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