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AYLUS North Hollywood Volunteers for Breathe Free LA: Gloria Molina Park Outreach | April 19, 2025

Activity & Impact On April 19, 2025, three members of the AYLUS North Hollywood branch volunteered from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the annual Gloria Molina Grand Park’s “Easy Morning’s” event in partnership with Breathe Free LA. Members raised awareness about the effects of secondhand smoke, especially in multi-unit housing, while also asking for […]

Greater Princeton & Far Beyond AYLUS Business for Charity Hosts Flea Market Booths for Children’s Specialized Hospital (83rd) in April 2025

In April, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) continued to host flea market booths in New Jersey running a business for charity.  Children’s Specialized Hospital is the nation’s leading provider of inpatient and outpatient care for children from birth to 21 years of age facing special health challenges — from chronic […]

Greater triangle volunteers at Hortons Creek Elementary School on 04/25/2025

  In response to Aylus’ call for “Youth Volunteer Service in the Community”, on April 25, 2025, two volunteers from our branch participated in the spring carnival at Hortons Creek Elementary School. The event was themed “Big Hands Holding Little Hands, Growing Together”, aiming to involve high school students in community service, while creating a […]

AYLUS Frisco & Plano Branch has coordinated countless volunteers to collect books on April 18th 2025

Reported by Emily Yin    Posted by Mateen Benarieb To support our mission to build libraries for the underprivileged in Africa, the AYLUS Frisco & Plano Branch has coordinated countless volunteers to collect books. As a result, we are already gathering material for our eighth library! Once the books were collected through donations, volunteers sorted […]

Greater Princeton & Far Beyond AYLUS Monitors Bluebird Box (155th) for Mercer County Park and Plainsboro Preserve in April 2025

In April, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) continued its bluebird box monitoring project along with Mercer County Park and Plainsboro Preserve.  Eastern Bluebirds were once a common bird in New Jersey. With habitat loss and competition from introduction of aggressive, non-native birds, the populations of these beautiful birds declined. Through […]

Morrisville Branch Volunteers hosted STEM Outreach session at NCSO on April 25, 2024

On April 25, three members from AYLUS Morrisville branch hosted STEM Outreach session at NC state level Science Olympiad Competition. Our members combined their passion for AI and community outreach by designing interactive games that demonstrate the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and computer vision. Using simple, hands-on activities, they illustrated complex concepts like image recognition […]

AYLUS Ridgewood Holds English Classes For Chinese Speakers at Ridgecrest Senior Center

Every Saturday starting from January 11th to April 12th, the Ridgewood Branch held beginner English lessons from 3:45 to 4:15 at the Ridgecrest Senior Housing Apartments. For 13 lessons and 1.5 hours per lesson, we created our own essential English vocabulary words to non-English speaking senior citizens at the Ridgecrest Apartments in Ridgewood. From slowly […]

Columbus Branch Held an In-Person Tutoring session at Abbey Church Village on April 16th, 2025

On April 16th, 2025, four members of the AYLUS-Columbus branch—Maggie Zhang, Estella Li, Grace Guo, and Brenna Li — held an in-person weekly tutoring session at Abbey Church Village in Dublin, Ohio. This community is part of the National Church Residences and serves low-income families, including new immigrant families. AYLUS-Columbus members assisted middle school students with […]

Columbus Branch Held an In-Person Tutoring session at Abbey Church Village on April 9th, 2025

On April 9th, 2025, two members of the AYLUS-Columbus branch—Aurick Guo, and Brenna Li — held an in-person weekly tutoring session at Abbey Church Village in Dublin, Ohio. This community is part of the National Church Residences and serves low-income families, including new immigrant families. AYLUS-Columbus members assisted two middle school students with their math homework […]

Morrisville Branch Packages Robotics Kits for Kits4Cause on April 20, 2025

On April 20th, 2025, 4 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 […]

Greater Tulsa Branch did the last book drives before shipping a library to Ghana on April 18

Reported by Kevin Chen On April 18, at advisor Chaoying Zhang’s home, our youth volunteers Andrew and Kaylin made a generous contribution to our African Library Project. They donated a total of 76 books—27 educational books and 49 books for young children—collected during their most recent book drives. Although we later learned from the project […]

San Diego Branch hosts the 67th Smiling Stars – Easter Party on April 20, 2025

Reported by Andrew Zhou Smiling Stars Reading Program is a new project by AYLUS San Diego and kicked off on September 23, 2023. This program serves a dual purpose: to facilitate meaningful connections with local children with autism and improve their communication skills, while simultaneously improving their foundational reading comprehension skills. Our commitment is not […]

San Diego Branch hosts the 66th Smiling Stars Reading program on April 19, 2025

Reported by Andrew Zhou Smiling Stars Reading Program is a new project by AYLUS San Diego and kicked off on September 23, 2023. This program serves a dual purpose: to facilitate meaningful connections with local children with autism and improve their communication skills, while simultaneously improving their foundational reading comprehension skills. Our commitment is not […]

AYLUS Roslyn Volunteers at Long Island Native Plant Initiative (13th) on April 15th, 2025

On Tuesday, April 15th, 2025, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, members of the AYLUS Roslyn Branch volunteered at Long Island Native Plant Initiative, or LINPI, a non profit organization dedicated to preserving Long Island’s biodiversity by growing native plants. During our time volunteering, we helped clean, pack items, and separate seeds. First, we helped […]

AYLUS Rancho Cucamonga Branch Volunteers at ALFC Generosity Center on 04/12/2025

On April 12, 2025, dedicated youth volunteers from the AYLUS Rancho Cucamonga Branch gathered once more at the ALFC Generosity Center for a meaningful day of community service. Driven by a strong commitment to helping others, these students arrived early in the morning, ready to roll up their sleeves and support families experiencing food insecurity. […]

West Essex AYLUS Environmental Committee at Reeves-Reed Arboretum 4/13/2025

On 4/13/2025, West Essex members volunteered at the Reeves-Reed Arboretum from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm for the event “Daffodil Day” (Address: 165 Hobart Ave, Summit, NJ 07901). Reeves-Reed Arboretum provides many arts and crafts and various activities for the kids in surrounding towns: Livingston, Summit, Millburn etc. Members: Ella Chai, Samantha Yin, Richard Xie, […]

AYLUS Roslyn Helps the Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County at the Bayville Care Center (18th) on April 20th, 2025

On Sunday April 20, 2025, from 10:30 am-1:30 pm Aylus Roslyn volunteers went to CP Bayville located in Nassau County. CP Bayville is an Intermediate Care Facility located on the North Shore of Long Island. The goal for CP Bayville is to meet and enhance the medical, therapeutic, emotional, psychosocial and recreational needs and wants […]