Reported by Cassie Tammy Wang
On June 29, 2019, Greater Princeton AYLUS (GPA) and Rescue Music Foundation (RMF) students hosted a Benefit “Music From The Heart, You Could Save A Life” Performance at Channing Hall (50 Cherry Hill Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540), to support a teacher, Ms. Su, Wei, who has been battling cancer on her own since December 2018.
Beneficiary: Wei Su, a professional teacher for 20 years in Princeton area. She was diagnosed with cancer and had surgery in 2018. A new tumor later showed up; to cut it out might cause death. Although she has no income or family for support, Wei always faces everything positively with big smiles. No matter how long her life will be, she lives every day with a positive outlook on life. She will donate her body to serve the medical field. Many thanks to everyone for the support and effort to help her fight cancer, and she is doing her best to return the love people give her!
From 12:30 to 5:30 pm, 102 performers and volunteers spent 5 hours working together to host this wonderful performance. The audience (around 200+ people) enjoyed the show very much. Council Vice-President for West Windsor, Dr. Yingchao “YZ” Zhang, a scientist, technologist, and a musician with passion, attended this students organized community event, and gave a great “One-Man-Band” warm-up performance. Mr. Shaolin Liu helped with the warm-up show, while Mr. Joseph Fong showed the youth volunteers how to manage the stage.
Many thanks to the following renowned musicians: Mr. Hanbo Liu, Mr. Paul Manulik, Ms. Xia Li, Ms. Dongli Li, as well as Mr. Mingyi Liu of Rescure Music Foundation, kindly joined youth volunteers for this great event.
The members brought lots of joy to the audience! Everyone was extremely appreciative of the performance and enjoyed it very much. The audience were tremendously impressed by the professional performances and strongly encouraged these talented students to perform again in the future.
Overall, $5184.88 was raised for Ms. Su at the event! Another good news is, Ms. Su is currently recovering from the surgery and decides to join AYLUS as an adult volunteer helping the students better serve the community!
In addition, $1004.73 was raised for the American Youth Leadership Foundation (AYLF) to recognize the great community service efforts of student volunteers of AYLUS organization nationwide.
Hosts: Cassie Tammy Wang, Jennifer Liu, Jennifer Wang, Kevin Song, Amy Lin, Edward Li, Angelina Yingying Liu, Elizabeth Yunjue Li, Alyssa Xu, and Grace Wang
Performers and Volunteers: Kevin Song, Victor Song, Jennifer Liu, Rachael Ngai, Olivia Gao, Steven Chen, Grace Wang, Alyssa Xu, Angelina Yingying Liu, Cathy Li, Angela Li, Sarah Chen, Eddie Zhou, Kevin Zhou, Victoria Fang, Paul Manulik, Evan Lin, Jennifer Wang, Amy Lin, Hanbo Liu, Kyson Zhou, Bingbing Chang, Averie Wu, Kathy Yang, Rachael Ngai, Xia Li and her chorus students: Aleena Zhang, Carina Zhang, Alice Liu, Yurao Shen, Christina Li, Sophia Feng, Luella Wang, Sophia Gao, Michael Feng, Emily Wang, Andrew Ma, Jason Ma, Cindy Chen, and Alena Zhao; Dongli’s Dance Studio Students: Sophia Liu, Amy Chu, Sophie Wang, Alice Chen, and Emily Wang, Lana Cheng, Karen Yang, Angelina Liu, Elizabeth Li, William Fang, Catherine Feng, Fengqi Wen, Steven Chi, Ellen Wu, Gina Shen, Jeffrey Ngai, Amber Yu, Andy Chi, Alice Jiang, Alan Jiang, Eva Nilsson, Diego Min, Salina Min, Joyce Zhu, Jonathan Ye, Fiona Fan, Sophia Song, Laura Wu, Kathie Wang; Anderson Chiang, Aaron Wang, Jie Gao, Ryan Tian, Tiffany Tian, Eliana Du, Angela Du, Zihui Xiao, Xin Chen, Yingchao Zhang, Shaolin Liu, Joseph Fong, Yuan Yuan, Donglin Huang, Claire Huang, Liping Zhang, Ying Liu, Yi Li, Ming Yao, Weihuan Cao, and Yi Wang, et al.
Community Service Time: 5 hours for all hosts, performers, and volunteers. Additional 6 hours for photo and video productions post performance taken by Elizabeth Yunjue Li, Claire Huang, Liping Zhang, and Donglin Huang.
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE GREAT WORK!
Enjoy the video and photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wCim6kueFLSNb3Dw6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gFbiheNZyv1r88QEA
