An East Bay storage container company is teaming up with a local non-profit to make the holidays a little brighter for hundreds of young people.
"I enjoyed having a bike as a child and I enjoyed riding all through the neighborhoods," said Alex Braun II, CEO of Livermore-based Units.
"Everybody deals with so much. Death by a thousand cuts. How about life by a thousand hugs? And this provides a few more hugs," Braun said. "We focus our bikes on school age kids, especially high schoolers and foster kids because we know when they age out, a bike may be their only transportation," Griggs said. That's where Alex came in. He owns Units, which is donating portable storage containers and trucks to move the bikes by the hundreds.500 bikes were moved to the Alameda County Fairgrounds forming a giant maze of boxes.
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