United Airlines volunteers spent a September morning building 200 Make-A-Wish kits, 100 for teens and 100 for younger kids. The three-hour session ran production-line style, with each station adding a piece to the kits as they moved down the line.
How it worked
This was an in-person build hosted by a Project Helping staff member, who was on site to lead the group through the process from start to finish. Because it was a production line rather than individual kits, the team set up assembly stations and worked together to complete all 200 kits in the three-hour window. Each kit included custom United Airlines branding and inserts. A Project Helping program manager set up the program in advance, arranged for the kits to arrive with everything needed for the build, and coordinated the return shipping. Once the build wrapped, the finished kits shipped back to Project Helping with prepaid labels for distribution, and United Airlines received an impact report afterward.
- Make-A-Wish Teen kits
- Make-A-Wish Youth kits
The finished kits went back to Project Helping, which delivers them to nonprofits in its recipient network. Kits like these give kids and teens something to look forward to during a difficult stretch. Any team looking for a hands-on morning with a clear cause can run a build like this one.
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