Students, parents, and volunteers of Pōmaikaʻi Elementary School walked to the Kahului school on Wednesday as part of the school’s Walking School Bus Program, hosted by Blue Zones Project—Central Maui.

Organizers explained that a walking school bus is a group of children walking to school together. “For elementary students, the group is accompanied by one or more adults. It can be as informal as a few families doing a carpool without a car or as formal as a mapped out walking route with regular meeting points, times, and volunteers,” organizers said.

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