On January 21th to 22th, 2023, the AYLUS Rancho Cucamonga Branch attended and volunteered at
the two-day Lunar Festival hosted by Panama and our city. Our main goals were to sell Lunar Year souvenirs and raise awareness of AYLUS and our branch as well as recruiting members. We successfully secured a venue for free at the festival after talking to the director.
When we arrived on site in the morning, we set up our venue with an easy-up and tables. We prepared the items we were going to sell, such as tiger drawings, squishies, purses, lanterns, flower bookmarks and numbers (DIY). We hung up our AYLUS poster at the back and tables with our items in the front.
When visitors walked by, we had a designated member to greet them and introduce them to what we were selling and what our organization was by passing out paper with information about AYLUS. One of our successful interactive activities was the DIY flower bookmark. Elementary and middle-schoolers, under the guidance of our volunteers, learned how to assemble a bookmark that contained dried flowers.
By selling these souvenirs, AYLUS Rancho Cucamonga garnered over $474, where all was used to cover funds for future projects and as donations. In addition, we recruited multiple members to our AYLUS Branch which will dramatically benefit us.
In the end, the Lunar Festival was a good opportunity to support and raise awareness of AYLUS and more importantly, have fun at the festival. In fact, this was the first official city-hosted Lunar Festival and it was great that we had a chance to attend it.
01/22/2023
Yongxi Hu 6 hours
Yangxuezhe Sun 8 hours
Tommy Tang 6 hours
Molin Wang7 hours
Zixuan Wang 5 hours
Eric Wang 5 hours
Mengyu He 4 hours
Peter He 4 hours
Danyao Zhao 5 hours
Cindy Huang 4 hours
Dexuan Wang 5 hours
Waiki Hou 4 hours
