On June 12, 2024, AYLUS Pearland volunteers supported the Light and Salt Association’s Special Needs Caring Center (SNCC) Day Hab program. They assisted with life skills and fine motor skills classes. Volunteers (6 hours each): – Jordan Zheng – Derek Zhu – Brendon Jiang – Junxi Zhang Parent on duty (1 hour): Christy (Brendon J)
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Youth Entrepreneur: Pearland Branch Fundraiser at Old Pearland Farmers Market on June 15, 2024
In the early morning of June 15, 2024, AYLUS Pearland volunteers gathered at the Pearland Recreation Center to organize a fundraiser for the city’s second inclusive park. They set up a booth to sell plants, twist balloons, and offer face painting, along with stickers donated by a warehouse partner, to promote an upcoming birthday party […]
Dance and Art: Pearland Branch Community Art Class (#17) on June 8, 2024
On June 8th, three dedicated members of AYLUS Pearland held a successful summer art lesson session as they strived to nurture young artistic talent (ranging from ages 3-13) within the Pearland community. The first class was dedicated to teaching the basics of sketching, which they taught through an interactive PowerPoint and worksheet activity; students then […]
AYLUS Great Neck Branch Volunteered at Bethpage State Park on 6/15/2024
Aylus Great Neck Branch Volunteer at Bethpage State Park on 6/15/24 Today, June 15th, 2024, Aylus Great Neck Branch volunteered at Bethpage State Park. There is a really beautiful garden with a variety of plants and a greenhouse right next to it. The purpose of this is to help grow native plants to benefit the […]
AYLUS Roslyn Provides Food to Local Families Through NOSH Delivery! Food Pantry (2nd) on June 15, 2024
On Saturday June 15th, the Roslyn branch volunteered with NOSH Delivers! food pantry from 9am to 12pm. The goal of this event is to help provide food and groceries to those in need to support their families. For multiple days every week, and every other Saturday, NOSH holds this event to allow anyone to pick […]
Greater Princeton AYLUS Promotes Youth Volunteerism among Students (43rd) in June 2024
In June, 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 […]
Greater Princeton AYLUS Business for Charity Committee Hosts Flea Market Booths (36th) in June 2024
In June, 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, Sean Xu, 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 […]
Greater Princeton AYLUS Hosts Crafts for Hope Events (2nd) in June 2024
Caring For Others One Stitch At A Time. In June, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) Crafts for Hope Committee hosted an event at the Plainsboro Public Library Community Room. Participants learned how to crochet chemo hats for cancer patients with Kathie Wang. No previous experience needed. Limited materials provided. Sign […]
AYLUS Great Neck Branch Volunteered at Stepping Stone Park for GNCA BBQ Party on 6/15/2024
This annual event is a day when the Chinese community in Great Neck comes together to celebrate, with the original intention of fostering community unity and building neighborly relationships. Today was incredibly busy, with volunteers working tirelessly from 2 PM to 8 PM. Everyone’s efforts have been commendable, making the event a resounding success. Our […]
AYLUS Great Neck Branch Organizes Weekly Sports Event (22nd) For Special Needs Children On 6/14/2024
On June 14, 2024, AYLUS’s Great Neck branch hosted its weekly Friday psychotherapeutic sessions. In which, we aim to help shy kids open up toward others, socialize more, make new friends and improve self esteem. Our volunteers—Zoe Xia, Andrew Qian, Cody Ngo, Adena Yang, Yuya Liu, Austin Wang, Melody Fan, Shaoyu Guo and Yucheng Fu—arrived […]
The AYLUS Dix Hills Branch volunteers at Nissequogue State Park
On June 15th, at Nissequogue State Park, the AYLUS Dix Hills Branch volunteers were cutting down and pulling out invasive plants such as Japanese knotweed, wineberry, and mugwort in an experimented area of the park. The experiment used “the power of three,” which meant that if an invasive plant, in this case being Japanese knotweed, […]
The AYLUS Dix Hills Branch volunteers at Bethpage State Park
On June 8th, the AYLUS Dix Hills Branch volunteers were propagating plants to be grown in a garden such as allium and bergamot, and other plants native to Long Island. We separated the plants from each other so each individual plant would get its own little pot. The pots were then put on a tray […]
Bergen Branch Hosts a Park Cleanup (21st) at Overpeck Park in Leonia, NJ (06/15/24)
On June 15th, 2024, members of the AYLUS Bergen branch hosted a park cleanup at Overpeck County Park in Leonia, New Jersey. It was a great day for cleaning and we managed to pick up different types of garbage such as bottle caps, bottles, cans, and much more! We ended up with two full bags […]
AYLUS RSM Volunteers Lakeview Senior center June 15th
Saturday Morning, at Lakeview Senior Center, four participate came to help out the busy hour of Saturday. As always, Saturday is usually the busiest hour at the senior center. There 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. […]
Murrieta AYLUS Volunteers at Habitat for Humanity Inland Valley #20– ABWK Senior Home Painting Project (6/15/2024)
Reported by Adora Xiao : On June 15th, 2024, Murrieta AYLUS members helped with the A Brush with Kindness program. Starting the day with helping tape off the areas, the volunteers lined the home and the shed with tape and brown paper so that paint wouldn’t drip onto the cement. They then laid out tarps […]
AYLUS RSM Volunteers Crossline Church Food Pantry June 7-14
The AYLUS RSM Volunteers decide to participate to help at Crossline Church food Pantry on June 7, 11 12, and 14th. The thing they usually work on when they get there is packing food and handing them in to people. How this is work is that people will drive a location, get a ticket and […]
AYLUS Basking Ridge weekly iPAD club to Fellowship Village on 6/15/24 (51st)
On Saturday, June 8th, AYLUS held its weekly iPad Club at the Fellowship Village. Our members helped seniors with questions about how to use the phone’s microphone to text and search. Members had also helped with questions about the camera app, and what slow-mo and timelapse does to a video. They had also answered […]
Slam n Splash (#121): Pearland Branch Community Tennis Class (#60) June 13, 2024
On the evening of June 13, 2024, AYLUS members Derek Zhu, Alex Sun, William Sun, and Will Wang organized a community tennis training session at Dawson High School for local children. The event aimed to introduce the kids to the basics of tennis while fostering a spirit of community service. The young leaders sought to […]
The AYLUS Dix Hills Branch volunteers at Sunday Long Island Chinese School to assist teachers with their classes
On June 9th, the AYLUS Dix Hills Branch volunteers at Sunday Long Island Chinese School to assist teachers with their classes. As a reoccurring event, volunteers already knew what to do, and assisted in things like helping teachers grade papers and whatnot. Volunteers also helped in retrieving materials for the teacher, cleaning the boards, and […]
Pearland Branch Community Tennis Class (#59) June 7, 2024
In the evening of June 7，2024，AYLUS members Derek Zhu, Alex Sun, Will Wang, Christopher Nguyen, and Zide Liu hosted a community tennis training session at Dawson High School for local children. The purpose of the event was to teach the children the basics of tennis while promoting community service. The young leaders aimed to instill […]
AYLUS Greater Triangle “Open Sky Book Club” Volunteer Community Summer Marathon Read Aloud 6/14/2024 (Day 2)
AYLUS Open Sky Book Club Hosts Summer Reading Marathon, Kicking Off World Read Aloud Day ,Cary, NC – dis summer, volunteers from teh AYLUS Open Sky Book Club organized a creative and fun-filled reading marathon at teh Cary Learning Center to kick off World Read Aloud Day. Teh event aimed to spark children’s interest and […]
AYLUS Greater Triangle “Open Sky Book Club” Volunteer Community Summer Marathon Read Aloud 6/14/2024 (Day 2）)
aylus Greater triangle 6/14/2024″open sky book club” summer read-aloud series(Day 2)
Greater Princeton AYLUS Hosts Spring Concerts at NJ Veterans Memorial Home and APEX (11th) in June 2024
On June 15th, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) visited the NJ Veterans Memorial Home in Menlo Park (132 Evergreen Road, Edison, NJ 08837) for a wonderful concert. GPA members presented a music program with fabulous singing, dancing, piano, and more instruments to hundreds of veterans and their families. Rebuilt in […]
Greater Princeton AYLUS Helps Refugee Students through Interfaith RISE (58th) in June 2024
In June, 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 […]
Greater Princeton & Far Beyond AYLUS Helps Organize Art Community Exhibition and Lecture in June 2024
In June, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) helped Alliance of Arts Exchange to organize an Art Community Exhibition and Lecture on Art Investment in Princeton, NJ. Dr. Liu is a professor at the COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES of Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey. He brought in […]
Greater Princeton AYLUS Leads Newspaper Edition for Youth Volunteerism (58th) in June 2024
In June, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) collaborated with other branches for the newest edition of newspapers to promote youth volunteerism. Founded by AYLUS Honorary President Cassie Wang in Aug. 2019, editors across the country worked together to have this newsletter published on a monthly basis. Besides the AYLUS announcement, […]
Greater Princeton AYLUS Monitors Bluebird Box (126th) for Mercer County Park and Plainsboro Preserve in June 2024
In June, 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 […]
AYLUS Great Neck Branch volunteers at CP Nassau on 6/8/24 (4th)
On June 8, 2024, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The Great Neck branch of AYLUS volunteered at a home run by the Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County(CP Nassau) which many participants enjoyed. First, we started with a popular baking activity where participants helped by cracking eggs, stirring the batter, and pouring the ingredients. […]
AYLUS Great Neck Branch volunteers at Steppingstone Park 6/9/24 (7th)
On Sunday 6/9/2024, after we got our tools and bucket and shovels, we were separated into about 5 groups to clean weeds around the tree area and under the bushes. During spring time, weeds come out really quickly. Only two weeks ago we put the mulches around the tree. And now the little weeds are […]
Riverside County AYLUS Supports Local Food Bank on June 7th, 2024
Sophie Chung and Evan Chang lend a helping hand to a local Food Bank on June 7th, 2024. They started out by sorting and organizing the different donations and packing the shelves with the goods. Then they moved onto packing the various carts that were then weighted on the weight station. In the end they […]
Syosset AYLUS members helped work at the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center 06/08/24
On Saturday, June 8, Syosset AYLUS members helped work at the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center. As Roosevelt was known to be a huge conservationist, close relatives of his would donate land in honor of his passing which would later become the first sanctuary for songbirds in the United States. Today, this sanctuary […]
College Station Branch Volunteers at the Brazos Valley Food Bank on June 13th
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 June 13th, members sorted a wide variety of donated goods and performed quality control, eliminating hundreds of goods of expired or damaged food and creating […]
Syosset AYLUS Celebrates Biodiversity in Caumsett State Park 6/8/24
On the evening of Saturday, June 8th, members of the Syosset branch of AYLUS were invited to Caumsett State Park to celebrate the projects that took place in the park over the past year to bring about biodiversity such as plating pollination gardens, planting native species as well as removing invasive species. Members were also […]
AYLUS Great Neck Branch Tutoring Week on 6/5/2024-6/8/2024 20
6/5/2024 On 6/5/2024, Aylus Great Neck hosted its weekly tutoring session for nearby students. Our volunteers helped three different students today. We first had a student who had difficulty with her math homework, and required one-on-one assistance. Our member Katie Yang helped her with word problems and solving equations. We also had a young student […]
aylus Greater Triangle “Open Sky Book Club” Volunteer Community Summer Marathon Read Aloud 6/13/2024 (Day 1)
aylus Greater Triangle “Open Sky Book Club” Volunteer Community Summer Marathon Read Aloud 6/13/2024 (Day 1)
Greater Princeton AYLUS Continues Conservation Efforts (196th) in June 2024
In June 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 […]
AYLUS Greater Triangle “Open Sky Book Club” Volunteer Community Summer Marathon Read Aloud 6/13/2024 (Day 1）
AYLUS Open Sky Book Club Hosts Summer Reading Marathon, Kicking Off World Read Aloud Day ,Cary, NC – this summer, volunteers from teh AYLUS Open Sky Book Club organized a creative and fun-filled reading marathon at teh Cary Learning Center to kick off World Read Aloud Day. Teh event aimed to spark children’s interest and […]
Murrieta AYLUS Helps Local Food Bank (52nd) (6/12/2024)
Reported by Jessica Lu : On June 12th, 2024, Murrieta AYLUS members volunteered at their local food bank. Members first signed in before starting off by sorting the breads and pastries. They organized them into their respective categories before helping make food boxes. Members were in charge of the produce and bread/dessert sections, so they […]