During the month of July, 12 volunteers of AYLUS made 88 placemats to donate to the Dublin Service Center for the Meals on Wheels program. The placemat theme this month was “Disney,” where volunteers used their creativity to design their placemats according to the theme. Afterwards, they laminated their placemats to give to recipients of […]

Columbus branch volunteers, Maggie Zhang and Dan Yi, assisted in packing and shipment of 86 AYLUS T shirts to 5 branches in 7 boxes on July 27th, 2024, under the instruction of AYLUS board of director, Dakun Wang. On 7/27, Maggie Zhang counted, packed, and mailed AYLUS T-Shirts for other AYLUS branches nationwide; namely the […]

On July 27th, AYLUS volunteers made heartfelt letters/cards to a Jerome High School graduate who is going to serve our military, showing him appreciation for protecting our nation and reminding him to stay strong during the trialing times of Boot Camp. The volunteers each wrote and designed a card to mail to the graduated student, […]

From 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM on Saturday, July 20, the Bellaire Branch of AYLUS volunteered at the Children’s Museum Houston(1500 Binz St, Houston, TX 77004).   The Children’s Museum Houston is a nonprofit museum that provides a variety of exhibits, galleries, and bilingual learning programs for children 0-12 years old. The museum recently received […]

Reported by Andrew Chen   Coop with Libraries With Love, the AYLUS San Diego Committee kicked off the 2024-2025 Solution for Hope on-line classes for raising funds to build libraries in Africa. The Tutoring Class Activity continued in the week of July 15, 2024 – July 21, 2024. The goal of tutoring classes is to […]

AYLUS members held their weekly iPad Club meeting at Fellowship Village. Members helped residents set up community apps, download and check out books online, walked residents through setting up a library card at the local library, helped residents organize their email inboxes, and assisted residents with removing unwanted spam emails. Additionally, our members helped with […]

On Saturday, July 6th, AYLUS held its 54th weekly iPad Club at the Fellowship Village. Today our members helped a senior who couldn’t find Google Chrome, fix a CD player that didn’t respond, helped another senior with how to playing games on a website, and finally help another senior to set  up another game on […]

This was the 96th event held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens. On July 25, 2024, members of AYLUS’s Oakland Gardens Branch visited Crocheron Park to water and weed the plants. The activity was enjoyable and kept us engaged in watering the plants. We would like to thank Jessica and her friends at Crocheron Park for allowing […]

This is the 95th event held by AYLUS Oakland Gardens. On Thursday, July 25, 2024, AYLUS Oakland Gardens went to Crocheron Park to learn how to make balloons. Almost everyone that attended this event knew how to make simple balloon animals as they came to our last event, but some people didn’t. Our parent advisor, Fannie, […]

On July 26th from 1:30 p.m to 9:00 p.m, volunteers helped set up, clean up, and aid vendors at the Warrington Farmers Market. We helped vendors set up tents, picnic tables, benches, trash cans and umbrellas. 7.5 hours: Satvik Mankar 6 hours: Alejandro Wu Mula 5 hours: Emily Schaab, Keira Im, Alexis Khrapko, Daniel Chen, […]

Reported by Diana Zhang On July 24, members of the AYLUS Newtown branch volunteered to bake an assortment of cookies for clients of the Family Service Association of Bucks County’s Food Pantry, a local food pantry dedicated to aiding those in need with nutritious and delicious food. We donated the cookies to the FSABC headquarters […]

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

In July, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) continued to host more flea market booths in New Jersey for charity.  GPA leaders Tom Cui and Steven Li purchased products in Amazon overstock outlets, collected donations, set up flea market booths, and raised funds for AYLUS Save a Life Diabetes Children Fund […]

On July 26th, three members of the AYLUS Memorial Branch volunteered at the Culture Center of TECO in Houston. The volunteers helped out in many different aspects. First, they helped carry many tables, boards, and chairs from a storage room to the auditorium. They unfolded the tables and placed them in a specific and organized […]

AYLUS San Clemente Branch Members volunteered at FAM Food Pantry on July 23rd and July 25th. They did both days shift from 3pm to 5pm. They sorted boxes of different food products into their respective places, organize foods to the shelves, as well as took donated toiletries from crates and categorized them. At the end […]

On Monday, July 22nd, 2024, from 9 am to 1 pm, AYLUS Roslyn volunteered at NOSH Delivers, a food pantry located in Glen Cove. NOSH Delivers aims to help families receive fresh groceries every week through their food pantry and delivery services. Hundreds of families come every week to pick up fresh groceries from NOSH. […]

On 7/26/24 members of AYLUS syosset volunteered at Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary. The volunteers engaged in several significant activities. First, the volunteers carried heavy rocks and placed them on the sides. This is important because the Sanctuary holds a summer camp with little kids and placing these rocks prevents the children from entering potentially dangerous areas. […]

On Tuesday, July 23rd, from 9:00 A.M. to 1 P.M, members of the Aylus Roslyn Branch volunteered at NOSH Delivers. NOSH is a food pantry helping people who were affected by the pandemic by helping them with extra groceries and food.  The first task that we did was to make NOSH bags. These are for […]

On Sunday, July 21, 2024, two members of AYLUS Chapel Hill stepped forward to support Charles House by collecting blossoms generously provided by the neighborhood Trader Joe’s. These beautiful flowers were then carefully delivered to Charles House, a community-based nonprofit focused on eldercare and assisting those with dementia. Located within the Carol Woods Retirement Community, […]

On Sunday, July 21, 2024, five members of AYLUS Chapel Hill Volunteers graced the halls of Carol Woods, a retirement community in Chapel Hill, with a delightful musical repertoire. The group of five included two skilled violinists and three talented pianists. The array of melodies presented to the seniors spanned the rich tapestries of the Baroque, […]

On July 23 2024, members of AYLUS volunteered at the Summit Center Ice Cream Social Event from 6:30PM-7:30PM. Volunteers helped monitor craft stations and supervise the bounce houses. This event will further the Summit Center’s mission of assisting people with autism. Volunteers(1 hour each): Zhiyi Cheng, Xiyu Xu, Moksh Gupta, Ellie Zhu, Emily Zhuang, Pratik […]

Report by Andrew Zhou Two AYLUS members wanted to use their table tennis skills to teach Chinese seniors in the community. On July 25, 2024, they taught some basic table tennis techniques to the seniors and played games with them. The seniors really enjoyed it, with one of them mentioning how it was his happiest […]

On July 6, 2024, Harrison Xiao, Yifei Ren, Charlotte Cheng, Junyi Chen, Osborn Chen, Oswald Chen, Anne-Sophie Niorthe, Ethan Eisel, Justin Tien, and Jason Tien each volunteered for 1.5 hours playing games with residents at a nursing home. Each member received the following volunteer hours: Harrison Xiao: 1.5 hours Yifei Ren: 1.5 hours Charlotte Cheng: […]

On Saturday, June 29th, AYLUS held its 53rd weekly iPad Club at the Fellowship Village. Today our members showed a lady how to do various things on her phone, such as searching her email, sending text messages, and playing her voicemails. Today was a quieter day so while members were not assisting seniors, they communicated […]

On Saturday, June 22th, AYLUS held its weekly iPad Club at the Fellowship Village. Our members assisted residents with iPhone call issues, helped with device system settings, fixed email glitches, etc. Today was a quieter day so while members were not assisting seniors, they communicated with the heads of the program and talked about future […]

On July 23rd, 2024, members of the AYLUS Memorial branch volunteered at MAM, a nonprofit organization from 2-6 pm. The volunteers sorted clothing by quality, recycled worn out hangers, and also attached price tags to new clothes. They also helped out around in the warehouse for other different things too. The members were able to […]

Today was AYLUS Oakland Garden’s 94th event. It was a nice evening and a perfect day to start watering the plants in P.S 390’s community garden. Today when we got to our event we met P.S 390’s parent coordinator, Ms.Ella. Some of members were helping Ms. Ella made a tool shed/shelf, so we could store […]

On July 25, 2024, members of the Syosset AYLUS organization participated in a planting activity at the Long Island Initiative of Native Plants (LIINP). This initiative is dedicated to enhancing biodiversity through the promotion of native plant species and the suppression of invasive plants on Long Island. During our visit to the greenhouse, we were […]

Changing Lives, Book by Book. Work together with AYLUS! In July 2024, the Greater Princeton Branch of AYLUS (GPA) completed another project to build a Community Library in Africa by collecting up to 700 gently used children’s books (preschool to 8th grade reading level books) and $650 (to cover the domestic and international shipping cost, […]

In July, 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 […]

In July, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) supported the Somerset County 4-H Annual Fair (https://4histops.org/fair-volunteer-info). NORTH BRANCH PARK 355 Milltown Road, Bridgewater, NJ WITH A RICH HISTORY CONNECTED TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, THE 4-H FAIR HAS BECOME AN ANNUAL CORNERSTONE OF SOMERSET COUNTY. DRAWING IN A DIVERSE AND EVER GROWING […]

On June 1, 2024, from 9:00am to 5:30pm. Many Aylus members participated in numerus activities during the Dragon Boat Festival. Anna Zou, Mia Gao, Dominic Gao, Qianmo Yang, Jeffery Yang, Abbie Miao, Phoebe Miao, Darren Lu, Sophia Lu, Jason Tien, Owen Shao, Shang Wu, Lindy Wu, Brooklyn Wu, Janeen Chen, and Isabella Zou all volunteered […]

Lucas Zhang, Celina Xu, Yifei Ren, and Alan Cheng, leaders of the Tennis Club, volunteered to teach group tennis lessons to kids in the Greater Memphis area. From May 26th to August 11th, 2024, they conducted weekly Sunday night sessions, guiding the children through stretching exercises and fundamental tennis drills like shadow swings and hand-tossed […]