The Hawaii Meth Project is warning the public that two young men may have fraudulently solicited cash donations in the Wailuku area.

Two males who appeared to be in their teens knocked on the door of a home at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kehalani community and told the woman who answered that they were fundraising for the Meth Project at Baldwin High School, organizers of the large-scale, teen-targeted prevention program said Friday.

The woman agreed to write a check for the cause, but the teens told her they were only accepting cash, organizers said. She then became suspicious, declined to donate and filed a report with Maui police.

Organizers said Friday that the Hawaii Meth Project, which works to discourage first-time use of addictive crystal methamphetamine, does not make unsolicited requests from strangers on the street, at their homes or their places of business.

"We believe that fundraising should only be done through a relationship that is built between an authorized representative of the Hawaii Meth Project and an informed potential donor who has learned about what we do and is inspired to give," David Earles, executive director of the Hawaii Meth Project, said in a news release.

Word of the apparent scam came as organization members held activities statewide as part of Meth Awareness Week, which began Nov. 30 and wraps up today. Organizers said that Hawaii Meth Project Teen Advisory Council members led activities on Maui, Kauai, Oahu and Hawaii island.

A junior at Baldwin High School who is a member of the Teen Advisory Council led meth prevention lessons at the school Tuesday.

Events also included an anti-meth sign-waving rally Wednesday at a popular intersection near Lihue Airport and an all-school assembly at Pahoa High & Intermediate School in which students heard from a recovering meth addict.

"Hawaii has seen firsthand the devastating effects that meth abuse has had and continues to have on our local community, which is why our goal is to bring highly effective peer-to-peer outreach to our youth — our future," Earles said in a news release last week. "Our participation in national Meth Awareness Week is an amazing opportunity for us to strengthen our ‘Not Even Once’ message and directly engage more of our local youth and community partners."

The Hawaii Meth Project relies on the financial support of individuals, corporations and foundations to achieve its objective of reducing first-time meth use. Visitwww.hawaiimethproject.org/Donate to contribute to the program.