Reported by Lillian Qian Posted by Lillian Qian   On June 1, 2025, a group of volunteers from the AYLUS Frisco-Plano branch gathered at the Frisco Public Library to crochet for Loops for Love. Several new volunteers joined the loops for love event for the first time. Many volunteers completed their hats this week, which […]

On May 31, 2025, dedicated youth volunteers from the AYLUS Rancho Cucamonga Branch came together at the ALFC Generosity Center in Rancho Cucamonga for another meaningful day of community service. Driven by a shared purpose to give back, the group arrived early in the morning, ready to devote their time and effort to supporting families […]

On June 3, 2025, volunteer members of Aylus gathered at the Great Neck Station Library from 6pm to 7pm to assist students with their homework or school projects. This evening was highly collaborative, allowing the tutees and tutors to remain productive and motivated. The volunteers helped strengthen the students’ knowledge of various subjects, including math, […]

Reported by: Audrea Wang On 6/1/2025, members of the AYLUS Farmington Branch participated in the Relay For Life in Farmington Valley. Members fundraised to support the American Cancer Society, honor survivors and caregivers, and remember those lost to cancer. Audrea Wang: 5 hours Angela Li: 5 hours

On June 1st, 2025, members of AYLUS gathered at King’s Point Park to participate in a community beautification and environmental preservation project. The goal of the event was to spread wood chips along the park’s trails. Equipped with rakes, the volunteers worked diligently for two hours, moving and distributing large piles of wood chips across […]

On Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM EST, the Levittown Branch of the Bucks County Free Library received valuable volunteer support aimed at improving the experience of all visitors. During this time, efforts were directed toward reorganizing and shelving a wide range of books, ensuring that materials were properly sorted and placed in […]

On May 31, 2025, X members of the San Clemente AYLUS Branch volunteered at the OC goodwill boutique in San Juan Capistrano, CA at 2:00pm. All members arrived around 2:00pm and gathered all trash bags together. After, they walked to the donation buckets where all members placed their donated clothes. These clothes go directly to […]

Throughout May, AYLUS San Clemente members have donated the recyclable bottles collected from their households to local recycling centers. The bottles are collected in trash bags and volunteers go on their own any day in May to sort the bottles at the recycling center by material and receive money in return. The total of $39.18 […]

On Sunday, June 1st, 2025, from 10:30-1:30 p.m, AYLUS Roslyn and Syosset volunteered together at the CP Bayville Location. It is an intermediate care facility located in the town of Bayville. Their goal is to improve and enhance the lives of all the residents. We volunteer to assist them with arts and crafts activities and […]

On Sunday 1, June, Aylus volunteers participated with others at Caumsett State Historic park preserve during 9:30 to 12:00am.   First, the Aylus volunteers gathered at the main parking lot, and the volunteer coordinator passed out gloves and other tools for volunteers to use. The job volunteers need to do today was to clear out […]

On July 1st, AYLUS Great Neck participated in the first Great Neck Park District Farmers Market. Since last year, our stock of homemade items has increased substantially, and the quality of our homemade items has also improved. The first Farmers Market of the season marks a major start in another way we can help the […]

Reported by Diana Zhang On Sunday, June 1, 2025, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM, Newtown AYLUS members organized and participated in a college informational seminar for local families. The seminar, featuring five guest speakers, focused on navigating the college application process, specifically tailored to medicine and science-focused careers and pathways.  AYLUS members arrived early […]

Gave away 1 mulberry starter plants to Houston and Sugar Land locals.

On Saturday, May 31st, 2025, from 9:00AM to 12:00PM, the AYLUS Roslyn Branch volunteered at NOSH Delivers. NOSH Delivers is a food pantry in Glen Cove that strives to make sure families in need have access to food. When we entered the food pantry, we immediately saw the newly stocked shelves with many rows and […]

Reported by Elissa Song #Hometown Sammamish Youth Action group – Cultural and Social Events Support Project Lake Washington Branch   On June 1st, 2025, AYLUS Lake Washington Branch members Elissa Song, Emily Qi, Eric Huang, Kevin Chen, and Jacky Yan volunteered at the Issy Kids Triathlon at the Issaquah Community Center. During the four hours […]

In June, the Greater Princeton 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 books to prepare […]

On the first of June, from 1:30 to 4:30, two AYLUS volunteers allocated 3 hours of their time to help out at the Long Island Chinese School located at SUNY Old Westbury.  The volunteers spent three hours watching over their designated classes. In the classrooms the teachers taught students chinese stories, watched movies and presented […]

AYLUS held its biweekly Tech Support program at Ridge Oak Senior Center on 6/2/25. Angelina Gao helped seniors regarding issues with the video feature in the camera app, downloading a community app and deleting messages. Today was a special case as Angelina was the only volunteer at the event, so there was no one taking […]

AYLUS Basking Ridge Branch partnered with Semper Fi to support the Good Grief 5k fundraising event. Since 2004, Good Grief has been providing unlimited and free support to children, teens, young adults, and families after the death of a mother, father, sister, or brother through peer support programs, education, and advocacy. 5k Run and Walk […]

AYLUS Basking Ridge held its weekly iPad Club at the Fellowship Village on 5/31/25. Volunteers helped seniors with organizing photos into albums. A volunteer had also taught a senior how to navigate and use Facebook. A man had needed help with downloading things on his computer, and volunteers also helped another women add phone numbers […]

The Bernards PEC Program runs every Saturday morning from 9-11 am in April and May. It is a program for students to help other students with special needs. First our members had helped students through warm up, by demonstrating to them how to do many things such as galloping, high knees, and yoga. Volunteers also […]

AYLUS Basking Ridge members volunteered at Farmstead Art Center’s Theater in the English Barn on 5/30,5/31, and 6/1. Farmstead Art Center is a small nonprofit art center, located at 450 King George Road in Basking Ridge. The show that was being shown was “She Stoops to Conquer” . Our members arrived 45 minutes before the […]

West Essex AYLUS Members collected food, toiletries, games, and more from their school mates and neibors to create hospitality carts and comfort packages for military troops, veterans, and caregivers. Members: 5/11 1 hour: Jaden Leung 5/14 2 hours: Yolanda Cheung, Hebe Leung, Zoe Leung, Alan Li 5/20 3 hours: Arushi Asrani, Jasper Cheng, Kailey Kwan, […]

In May, 2025, YLUS West Essex Branch partnered with My Circle of Friends to raise fund for them to organize and support meaningful activities for children with special needs. Sneaker Guidelines: We DO NOT accept non-athletic footwear of any kind including but not limited to: dress shoes, heels, sandals, wedges, water socks, rain boots, crocs, […]

West Essex Aylus Volunteers attended Livingston Huaxia Chinese School on Saturday, May. 31, 2025. Volunteer activity/location: Livingston Huaxia Chinese School (Mount Pleasant Elementary School, Livingston). Activities – Teacher Assistant, helped in the main office to figure out the volunteer tasks, helped with the morning traffic direction, and helped around the information desk. Teaching Violin in […]

On 5/31/25 West Essex members AYLUS volunteered with the Special Olympic swimming team at JCC Metro West. West Essex members worked as unified partners and assisting coaches to help participants improve their swimming skills. Our members also worked with swimmers with special needs to help them understand the “swimming team” format and learn basic swimming […]

West Essex AYLUS is partnering with Livingston neighbors helping neighbors for a variety of volunteering and donation opportunities this year. PB&J Sandwiches Drive is going to be an on-going activity to support homeless people in Newark.    05/19/25: Samuel Xue (4 hours) 05/20/25: Huixuan (Olivia) Li (3 hours) 05/22/25: Andrew Zhou (3 hours) 05/24/25: Jessica […]

On Saturday,May 31th Aylus hosted its weekly tutoring sessions at the Parkville library. Two volunteers went to the Parkville library to tutor 4 kids with grade levels varying from kindergarten to 6th grade. One volunteer tutored two first grade students with vocabulary, paragraph writing, reading books, and phonics. The first grader seemed very eager to learn […]

On Sunday, June 1st, volunteers from the AYLUS Chapel Hill Branch continued their meaningful partnership with Charles House by collecting and delivering a generous floral donation from Trader Joe’s. These fresh, colorful blooms were brought to Charles House, a nonprofit organization serving seniors and individuals with dementia at the Carol Woods Retirement Community. The flowers […]

Report by Bradley Fang On May 31th, 2025, AYLUS Cheshire Branch volunteers dedicated their time to volunteer at a local program designed to help students in need of tutoring. The tutoring is available to all ages with a focus on math and reading comprehension skills. The volunteers would help the students who were in need […]

Report by Bradley Fang On May 17th, 2025, AYLUS Cheshire Branch volunteers dedicated their time to volunteer at a local program designed to help students in need of tutoring. The tutoring is available to all ages with a focus on math and reading comprehension skills. The volunteers would help the students who were in need […]

In June, the Greater Princeton Branch of AYLUS (GPA) continued hosting a free tutoring program at 19 S 2nd Street, Highland Park, to help local students through a network with Interfaith RISE.  AYLUS has scheduled this Free Tutoring for any elementary, middle, or high school subjects for each weekend every week. GPA Volunteers (6/1, Tutoring […]

Report by Bradley Fang On May 6th, 2025, AYLUS Cheshire Branch volunteers dedicated their time to volunteer at a local program designed to help students in need of tutoring. The tutoring is available to all ages with a focus on math and reading comprehension skills. The volunteers would help the students who were in need […]

In June, the Greater Princeton Branch of AYLUS (GPA) members worked together 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 promote AYLUS youth volunteerism […]

In June, the Greater Princeton 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 the efforts of […]