Reported by Andrew Zhou On October 28, 2024, AYLUS San Diego Branch made sack lunches for Interfaith Community Services. Interfaith Community Services, founded in 1979, is a nonprofit based in San Diego, CA. The organization provides food, housing, employment, treatment and other emergency resources for local people in crisis.  Food is our most basic human […]

Reported by Eric Xie  AYLUS San Diego Committee kicked off the Beast Academy online class in 2020 during the COVID-19 period. During 2024-2025, we continue cooperating with Libraries of Love to raise funds. The 19th Beast Academy online class in 2024-2025 was on October 21-27, 2024. Beast Academy is a mathematics program for elementary and […]

Reported by Lauren Kan On Oct 26th, San Diego students of AYLUS hosted its 28th monthly bottles and cans recycling event. Inspired by the Earth Day 2023, we set a goal to take action and to be a part of the green revolution. The students collected recyclable items and sorted them in a nearby recycling […]

Reported by Lauren Kan On Oct 12th, San Diego students of AYLUS hosted its 27th monthly bottles and cans recycling event. Inspired by the Earth Day 2023, we set a goal to take action and to be a part of the green revolution. The students collected recyclable items and sorted them in a nearby recycling […]

On Sunday, October 27, youth volunteers from ALYUS Great Neck helped decorate and facilitate a local Halloween parade. The Great Neck Park District organized the event, which took place in Steppingstone Park and ran from 9:30 to 11:30 am. Volunteers worked earnestly, placing various Halloween-themed embellishments around the park. As families arrived, the youth volunteers […]

Reported by Zoe Ying We are helping 92130Cares, a non-profit origination that provides food to poor families in 92130. Grocery stores are not allowed to remove broken eggs from a carton, so they donate the whole package to 92130Cares. 92130Cares repackages the good eggs into packages of 6, and the donated egg carton will be […]

West Essex AYLUS Members volunteered Livingston Chinese Association Fishing Contest at Hopatcong State Park, NJ. They helped with various tasks including event set-up, Serving food and drink and fish weighing. At the end, our branch members helped with the final cleanup to close the event. Members(4 hours each): Yicheng Yang and Justin Wang

West Essex AYLUS Members volunteered at Reeves-Reed Arboretum for the Celebrate Fall event. They helped with various tasks including event set-up, games, crafts, and fun activities.  It was a great way to help the community while also welcoming the new season.    Members: Jeremiah Au (3 hours),  Jason Dong (2.5 hours), Sophia Karpov (5 hours), […]

West Essex Aylus Volunteers attended Livingston Huaxia Chinese School  on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. Volunteer activity/location:  Livingston Huaxia Chinese School (Mount Pleasant Elementary School, Livingston) Date:  Oct. 26, 2024 Activities – Teacher Assistant, helped in the main office to figure out the volunteer tasks, helped with the morning traffic direction, and helped around the information […]

Aylus West Essex members, Aily Wei and Forest Yang, volunteer to raise Seeing Eye Puppies. They raised and trained their puppies with many commands such as walking, resting, lying down, sitting, and much more. 10/20 Forest Yang(1.5 hours), Aily Wei(2 hours) 10/21 Forest Yang(2 hours), Aily Wei(1.5 hours) 10/22 Forest Yang(1.5 hours), Aily Wei(1.5 hours) […]

During the month of October, AYLUS volunteers made 24 placemats to donate to the Dublin Service Center for the Meals on Wheels program. The placemat theme this month was “Halloween/Spooky,” where volunteers used their creative talent to decorate their placemats according to the theme. Then, they laminated their placemats to gift to recipients of the […]

On October 26 and 27, members of the Birmingham Branch of AYLUS volunteered at the Birmingham Zoo. Volunteers participated in the annual Halloween event, handing out candy to trick-or-treaters at multiple locations within the zoo. Members also helped transport the candy stations to each location. Thank you to all of the following members for participating: […]

Reported by Jenny Wang After collecting PreK-4 books for our 7th African library, we sorted them into two reading levels: PreK-1st grade and 2nd-4th grade. Each of us read the books to determine their appropriate levels. We then placed the sorted books into two separate 2’x12’x12’ media boxes, as required by the African Library Project. […]

Status: New   On the October 27, 2024, three students from McLean (VA) worked together to create the McLean AYLUS branch. It marks the 173rd AYLUS branch in the nation! Founders:             The founders of McLean Branch are Sarah Tao, Emma Tsao, and Emma Tao.  Congratulations. You are awesome! The […]

Reported by Lucas Zhang On Friday 10/25/2024, 3 members of AYLUS taught students ranging from third-graders to ninth-graders in various math topics at the local Chinese school, the Newtown Yardley Chinese School. Lucas Zhang (Event Leader), Albert Chen, and Alex Hu participated, teaching from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Our volunteers taught two different classes, one for […]

On Friday, October 25th, volunteers gathered at the Shadow Cliff Regional Recreation Area to pick up trash. Members noticed many pieces of plastic from parties on the grass and plates. There were also tons of water bottles under bushes and in the water. Our volunteers were glad to clean the area to benefit the environment! […]

Six AYLUS Basking Ridge members participated in Saturdays in Motion at the GSCY YMCA on 10/26/24. The one volunteer that was new to SIM first participated in a brief new volunteer orientation, while the other two helped set up the gym rooms before the kids got here. Once the session started, each volunteer paired up […]