On 6/19/24, West Essex branch volunteered with Livingston Chinese Association (LCA) and Livingston Police department at the Livingston Safety and Civic Engagement event held at the LPD training room. The Livingston Chinese Association (LCA) and Livingston NJ Police Department co-hosted an incredibly successful community event on June 19th, focused on safety and civic engagement. Held […]

West Essex members Zoe Leung, Hebe Leung and Jaden Leung volunteered at Taekwondo classes for children on 6/10/24 and 6/12/24.  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.  On 6/12/24, the three members helped in […]

West Essex members Zoe Leung, Hebe Leung, Jaden Leung and Jeremiah Au volunteered at Taekwondo classes for children on 6/3/24 and 6/5/24.  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.  On 6/5/24, the four members […]

Report by Andrew Zhou Two AYLUS members wanted to use their table tennis skills to teach Chinese seniors in the community. On July 11, 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 […]

Reported by Jenny Wang Posted by Jenny Wang The African Library Project changes lives, book by book, together with partners in Africa and North American volunteers, to create, improve, and sustain libraries in African communities. During July, many AYLUS members collected K-8 books from local communities for our 5th African library. Volunteers: Runci Kang    […]

On 7/12/24, members of AYLUS Syosset helped to clean up and improve the garden at Long Island Cares, which is Long Island’s first food bank and is founded by Harry Chapin. Long Island Cares strives to provide for the needs of the community, and educate the public about the causes and effects of hunger on […]

In July, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) volunteers continued to help our local community at Community Food Bank of New Jersey (31 Evans Terminal Road #1, Hillside, NJ 07205), Mercer Street Friends Food Bank (824 Silvia Street, Ewing, NJ 08628), Princeton Community Kitchen for Low-Income Families, and Rise Food Pantry […]

Gave away 3 moringa and 3 mulberry, 2 fig, 1 pomegranate and 1 weeping willow starter plants to Houston and Sugar Land locals

On July 10th, AYLUS Oakland Gardens held its 84th event. The members all went to our local community garden to rip up all the weeds in the flower beds and water the plants consistently. We were all familiar with this area, so we got the gist and knew how to do this fairly quickly and […]

On July 8, 2024, Fullerton Branch members tutored kids ranging from 1st to 6th graders in math. In this lesson, the kids were able to learn about exponents and square roots.     TOTAL HOURS David Li, Eric Wei: 4 Hours

On July 1, 2024, a Fullerton Branch member tutored kids ranging from 1st to 6th graders in math. They were able to learn about the aspects of rational numbers.     TOTAL HOURS Eric Wei: 4 Hours

On 7/11/24, 8 volunteers from AYLUS Syosset traveled to the nature preserve at Lido Beach to actively learn about and receive training for observing female terrapins.  Only emerging from their habitats to lay their hatchlings, observations made upon the turtles during this critical time of their hatching season helps conservationists at the preserve gather the […]

Reported by Andrew Li: The College Station Branch of AYLUS volunteered at the Brazos Valley Food Bank, a non-profit organization serving people in need in the Brazos County area. On July 11th, members moved hundreds of pounds of food from the warehouse to pallets to be shipped to people in need. We also packaged 108 […]

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 2024, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) Environment Committee continued its conservation, a continuing effort for the GPA students to put their influence on the local community since their last public speech to the West Windsor Council in 2019. GPA conservationists collected & recycled plastic bags, batteries, clothes, picked […]

On the Fourth of July, we went to Jones Beach to protect the birds that nest and live on the sandbanks behind the beach from potential disturbances by beachgoers. We set up our tents and umbrellas in front of the fence that surrounded the sandbank to prevent people from approaching or playing with anything that […]

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, […]

on June 2nd, 2024, West Essex AYLUS volunteered with the Center for Asian Health at their Chinese Wellness Day event.  The event was held at the Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center: 200 South Orange Ave., Livingston, NJ 07039. Besides the free health screenings, the event offered 9 health talks, a chair yoga class, and opportunities […]

Julia played piano for residents of Harbor Chase Assisted Living Center to provide entertainment during their lunchtime. (Julia Chen: 30 minutes)

Reported by Jenny Wang Posted by Jenny Wang The African Library Project changes lives, book by book, together with partners in Africa and North American volunteers, to create, improve, and sustain libraries in African communities. During July, many AYLUS members collected K-8 books from local communities for our 5th African library. Volunteers: Jenny Wang (event […]

On Tuesday, July 9th, from 9 am to 1:30 pm, Aylus Roslyn volunteered at NOSH Delivers, a local food bank. Located in Glen Cove, NOSH aims to help families receive fresh groceries who cannot afford them. When we first arrived, we helped pack orders and fill bags of produce. The group split up and some […]

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 1, 2024 – July 7, 2024. The goal of tutoring classes is to […]

Reported by Andrew Zhou On July 8th, 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 […]

In July, 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 […]

On Monday, July 8th, 2024, members of the Roslyn AYLUS Branch volunteered with Audubon New York for a beach cleanup and bird walk from 6:00pm to 8:00 pm. Audubon NY’s mission is to protect the birds of the area, as well as their habitats. Today, volunteers helped pick up trash on the beach to ensure […]

Reported by Jenny Wang Posted by Jenny Wang In July 2024, many AYLUS members helped fundraising by selling their used household items for the shipping expense of our 5th African Library. We listed our items on local social media for fundraising to advocate our African Library Project.  We are so proud that we spread AYLUS […]

On Sunday, 7/7/24, AYLUS-Columbus volunteered at the Dublin Giving Garden to weed and water the flower and vegetable beds. The volunteers weeded around the garden fence, in which weeds were placed into provided lawn bags. They also watered the vegetable beds twice because of the intense sun of the day. Volunteer Hours : Maggie Zhang […]

Morning of July 6th, two participate joined to help out at PEACE Farm at Saddleback Rancho Capistrano. Usually, I consider PEACE Farm as the typical fun activity, and this time the two people jobs is to harvest apple off a tree. The apple are freshly grown, so it pretty good stuff. These fruits will eventually […]