On February 22nd, 2025, 2 volunteers from our community branch worked on packaging robotics kits for a local organization, Kits4Cause. These dedicated volunteers carefully packaged BristleBot and Car kits, ensuring each kit was quality and organized. The kits will be used during free robotics workshops at elementary/middle schools, YMCAs, libraries, and more, providing young students […]

On Saturday, February 22nd, the Aylus Great Neck Branch Hosted an AAPI event at the Parkville Library. When the volunteers arrived they set up the chairs and tables in preparation for the children. Once the children had arrived Irena Jiang and Zoe Xia began by reading the books “Danbi’s Favorite Day” by Anna Kim and […]

On February 23rd, from 1:30 to 4:30, AYLUS volunteers helped at the Long Island Chinese School located at SUNY Old Westbury.  Over the course of three hours volunteers were dispersed to different classrooms. In each classroom they helped with various tasks, like mentoring students in class, printing extra copies of tests and helping clean up […]

Activity & Impact On February 8, 2025, three members of the AYLUS North Hollywood Branch volunteered at a Compost Hub in Cottonwood Urban Farm from 9am-1pm. This Compost Hub was established by LA Compost and works to reduce landfill waste. Volunteers helped turn food scraps provided from the community into compost to be reused. Activities […]

In February, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) supported local libraries, such as the Summit Free Public Library, West Windsor Public Library, Montgomery Public Library, Plainsboro Public Library, Livingston Public Library, and more. BECOME A VOLUNTEER: HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE Library Programs (teaching Chess, tutoring, etc.) Book sorting (categorize […]

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. These puppies will be the guiding dogs for blind people. 02/16 Forest Yang(2 hours), Aily Wei(2 hours) 02/17 Forest Yang(1.5 hours), […]

West Essex AYLUS is partnering with Livingston neighbors helping neighbors for a variety of volunteering and donation opportunities this year. PB&J Sandwiches Drive is going to be an on-going activity to support homeless people in Newark. 02/10/25: Kenneth Wu (4 hours), Carson Yu (2 hours), Jessica Yu (2 hours), Jiahui (Chloe) Wang (2 hours) 02/11/25: […]

On 2/23/2025, West Essex members volunteered in the Love Serving Autism tennis class offered to special needs children at West Orange Tennis Club. The program provides inclusive therapeutic racquet sports instruction for neurodivergent children to enhance communication, motor coordination, life skills, and behavior on and off the courts. In the class, the coaches and volunteers […]

On 2/23/2025, West Essex AYLUS volunteered with Essex Special Skaters to help skaters with disabilities train and practice for the Special Olympics Figure skating program at Codey Arena in West Orange NJ. The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and […]

On 2/22/25 West Essex members AYLUS volunteered with the Special Olympic swimming team at JCC Metro West. West Essex members worked as unified partners and assisting coaches to help participants improve their swimming skills. Our members also worked with swimmers with special needs to help them understand the “swimming team” format and learn basic swimming […]

West Essex members Jaden Leung, Hebe Leung, and Zoe Leung volunteered at Taekwondo classes for children on 2/10/25 and 2/14/25. Volunteers coordinated and helped with teaching, warming up, Taekwondo forms, nunchucks, and sparring footwork, so participants who are between 6-15 years old can increase their martial art skills. West Essex members : 3 hours: Zoe […]

West Essex Aylus Volunteers attended Livingston Huaxia Chinese School on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. Volunteer activity/location: Livingston Huaxia Chinese School (Mount Pleasant Elementary School, Livingston). 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 desk. Teaching Violin in […]

On 2/22/2025, West Essex Aylus members volunteered at the second annual Heritage Middle School Academic Tournament, a QuizBowl tournament where 20 teams from the surrounding area competed in a 10-round tournament. Volunteers played a crucial role in setting up, running, and cleaning up after the tournament, including reading questions and managing matches. The tournament fostered a supportive environment […]

On February 22nd and 23rd 2025, members of AYLUS Puget Sound hosted two concerts — a 1.5 hour concert at Aegis Living Bellevue Overlake, and a 1 hour concert at Aegis Living Marymoor. Together, they formed our Springtime Spectacle series in 2025. A total of 24 volunteers performed 22 performances at the concert. MC: Victor […]

Reported by Colin Xie On February 16th, San Diego students of AYLUS organized the 247th online English for the Elderly activity. The goal of this activity is to help elderly men and women from China learn the basics of English so that they’re able to use them in their daily lives. Due to the current […]

Reported by Colin Xie On February 9th, San Diego students of AYLUS organized the 246th online English for the Elderly activity. The goal of this activity is to help elderly men and women from China learn the basics of English so that they’re able to use them in their daily lives. Due to the current […]

Reported by Colin Xie On February 2nd, San Diego students of AYLUS organized the 245th online English for the Elderly activity. The goal of this activity is to help elderly men and women from China learn the basics of English so that they’re able to use them in their daily lives. Due to the current […]

Written By Felix Zheng On February 22nd, the Syosset AYLUS organization attended the Long Island Native Plant Initiative to volunteer. On that day, we primarily worked on sifting seeds, watering soil, and separating containers for use with the soil as a placement. We sifted seeds because the greenhouse had extra plants that needed to be […]

Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Chinese Student Association held its annual Chinese New Year Celebrations at Rutgers Nicolas Music Center, address 85 George St.,New Brunswick,NJ,08901 on 2/22/25. About 1000 people attended the celebration. During the celebration, AYLUS Basking Ridge members performed Dance “Rain” and their performance received warm applause from the audience.

Seven AYLUS Basking Ridge members participated in Saturdays in Motion at the GSCY YMCA on 2/22/25. 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 […]

AYLUS held its weekly iPad Club at the Fellowship Village on 2/22/25. Today is a slow day. We helped a lady learn to organize her apps and to create folders. Additionally taught how to organize and sort emails, make texts bigeer and easier to read, and print out emails or other things. The Tech director […]

On Friday 2/21/25, two members of AYLUS Newtown presented information about their respective sports. Lucas presented golf during high school and possibilities at reaching the college level to play golf. He also discussed the GHIN rating system in golf and how the index is calculated. He also shared information about nearby courses such as their […]

On Friday 2/21/2025, 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 younger students and one […]

On Saturday, February 22nd, 2025, Aylus Roslyn volunteered for the Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County (CP Nassau) at a group home in Seaford. Today the volunteers did many fun activities with the residents, and everyone had a great time. First, we started by baking sugar cookies. The residents all enjoyed mixing and adding in […]

On Friday, February 21st, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the Roslyn Branch of AYLUS volunteered with NOSH Delivers! to support a community food drive. At their food pantry, they helped pack groceries for adults and lunches for kids, signed members in, and assisted them with picking out food, restocking shelves, breaking down boxes, and […]

On Saturday, February 22, 2025 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the AYLUS Roslyn Branch took initiative to engage in community service for NOSH Delivers— located at Glen Cove— a non- profit organization aiming to supply food to people in need. Right when everyone arrived, they were immediately put to work in either stocking and […]

AYLUS member step out to help people that struggle due to the LA fire. The fires caused many people to lose their homes and belongings, leaving them in need of support. The group wanted to make sure those affected had what they needed during this tough time. This is an super significant activity as it how […]

January 18, 2 participants join to help out at Lakeview Senior Center. here is a lot of shows and food to prepare. The participate came to help deliver foods. Usually, our favorite activity is handing out the cakes. No particular reason, just find it enjoyable. Aiden Ji 3 hour Sansi Wu 3 hour     […]

Three members from the AYLUS San Clemente Branch volunteered at FAM Food Pantry on February 22, 2025, from 9am to 12pm. The three members first sorted snacks into gift bags and placed basic fresh-keeping foods into FAM bags. After that, they helped the staff carry the supplies off the truck, and sorted fruits and vegetables […]

January 25, one participate joined to help out at PEACE Farm at Saddleback Rancho Capistrano. This time the two people’s jobs is to cut bad plant branches off some vegetable. This way the plant will grow better than ever. Usually, this vegetable will be donated to food bank after harvested, maybe homeless shelter and just […]

AYLUS Rancho Santa Margarita branch members volunteered at the PEACE Farm in Saddleback on January 18. Three participants have shown up to help out at and they are tasked with a job that they’re most familiar with, wood chopping. They basically grab large logs layer around, and is a whole pile of them, and then […]

On January 11, three participate joined to help out at PEACE Farm at Saddleback Rancho Capistrano. They work on planter and stuff, I’m personally not there so not sure exactly what they did. Ethan Zhang 2 hour Matthew Zhang 2 hour Aiden Ji 2hour Danny Wang 2 hour              

AYLUS Rancho Santa Margarita branch members volunteered at the PEACE Farm in Saddleback on October 5th. Four shows up to help out. The main task that assigned to the participant was planting and working at the garden. Ethan Zhang 2 hour Matthew Zhang 2 hour Danny Wang 2 hour             […]

On February 22, 2025, AYLUS-Chapel Hill volunteers donated handmade heart pillows to the Ronald McDonald House in Chapel Hill. This non-profit organization supports families of children, many from out of town, who are receiving treatment at UNC hospitals. The donation was warmly received, with the staff expressing sincere gratitude for our support. Starting with our […]

Reported by Karen Zhou Posted by Karen Zhou On February 23rd, we gathered at the Cypress Meadow Clubhouse in Allen, TX, to create pet toys from old clothes for the cats and dogs at the local animal shelter. Since two of our volunteers were new to this activity, Karen Zhou started by teaching them the […]

On the afternoon of February 23 and 24th, members of the AYLUS Morris Branch carried out their monthly donation to the Helping Hands Family Center, located at the local Presbyterian Church in Chatham, NJ. This month, their efforts contributed to the collection of 51 pounds of canned soups, crackers, and pasta, generously donated by local […]

In February, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) National Empowerment Education Committee Chair Xing Liao continued hosting a free tutoring program at 19 S 2nd Street, Highland Park, to help local students through a network with Interfaith RISE.  AYLUS has scheduled this Free Tutoring for any elementary, middle, or high school […]

In February, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) members worked together again to promote youth volunteerism among nearby students and to dress up new AYLUS memberships with our home-printed cardinal red uniforms. This project is to encourage GPA members to use their talents in all kinds of crafting and arts to […]