Reported by Yicheng Liu
On July 22nd, 2021, San Diego students of AYLUS donated 1,000 books to Bayside STEAM Academy. The donated books were collected by the families of volunteers from local schools across San Diego.
The Solutions for Hope event is an event aimed at giving volunteers the opportunity to give back to their community through helping students from low-income areas. Bayside STEAM Academy is an elementary school in San Diego with 73% of students coming from low income families.
In this event, in order to give many low income students a wider access to learning supplies and materials and tools needed to excel academically, AYLUS San Diego volunteers donated many books to the academy. By donating books, AYLUS is helping to make literature more accessible and teaching the importance of reading at a young age to the children of these at-risk families.
This event consisted of volunteers meticulously sorting through the books, packing the books into boxes, moving the books onto the campus of Bayside STEAM Academy, and finally helping load the boxes onto a pallet. The books will be distributed to the many students of the school to take home, in order to encourage reading outside of school hours.
In this event, AYLUS San Diego donated 18 boxes, with 1,000 books total.
The following students participated in the Solutions for Hope donation, 2 hours for all: Samuel Li, Daniel Li, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Kevin Kan, Lauren Kan, Eric Li, Steven Xiao
