On Saturday January 14th, AYLUS volunteers and SMILE students practiced their performance for the upcoming Lunar New Year Gala at the West Pearland Library from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Though this was the first time the volunteers and the SMILE students practiced together, they played to near perfection by the end of the rehearsal. […]

On January 2nd, AYLUS Pearland members Aila Jiang, Alex Sun, William Sun, and Wendy Yin shared their internship projects with the branch. The four officers and leads are interns at the Light and Salt Association, whom AYLUS has been working closely with for almost 3 years. The interns are learning about community advocacy and will […]

AYLUS Pearland co-sponsored the first Dawson Dash Family Event on Jan 7th, 2023 by encouraging active involvement in AYLUS families through either racing or volunteering. It was also a follow-up event for the Bridging the Intergenerational Gap project that was launched by AYLUS Pearland in September 2022. A total of 30 people from more than […]

On the 21 st  of December 2022 AYLUS Pearland volunteered at the SMILE program at Light and Salt Association’s Special Needs Care Center. The SMILE program was designed to make people with special needs learn various life skills in a safe environment. It often includes activities such as the arts or music. On the 21st […]

On December 27, 2022, AYLUS Pearland hosted a face painting and balloon twisting workshop at the Westside Library from 3:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The event was open to the community and aimed to promote the upcoming Pearland Lunar New Year Festival. At the workshop, volunteers shared multiple paint pallets to create Chinese New Year […]

On December 21st, Dr. Chang, the principal of Ed White Elementary School, invited AYLUS volunteers to watch their Winter Showcase to celebrate the holiday season along with the students and faculty. It was a joyful performance with the volunteers watching students from all grade levels singing and dancing in multiple holiday numbers. The volunteers even […]

December 3rd, 2022, AYLUS Pearland held a TA meeting for junior members who participate in the online teaching. The experienced TAs shared their stories on the hardships and tips to become more capable of adapting to challenging moments while teaching. They discussed different methods of helping with young students being unable to focus, uninterested in […]

Throughout the month of December, seven AYLUS members led the continuation of our 2023 calendar preparations. Volunteers attended meetings and worked with design programs to create the model of the calendar. Each member spent time and effort collecting photos and adhering to the requirements of the board in order to develop the design. Afterward, the […]

AYLUS Pearland members gathered together on 12/16 to prepare holiday gifts for seniors and kids. The gifts were for both the Landing at Watercrest, an Assisted Living center, Ronald McDonald House, a residential place for children with cancer, SMILE Project, a special needs day program, and lastly for Kidz Harbor, a facility to help abandoned […]

AYLUS volunteers performed at the Landings at Watercrest senior care center on December 20 th 2022. Volunteers spent time organizing acts and eventually met to combine all nine acts into a full performance for the residents of the senior home. We aimed to spread holiday joy to everyone watching, collecting a variety of acts from […]

On December 10, 2022, AYLUS volunteered with the Art for Change project at the Houston Art Festival. Volunteers sold Christmas cards made by the special needs students at SMILE program to raise money for the Art for Change fundraiser. The $196 raised from this event will help to equip special needs classrooms with laptops and […]

On December 17th, 2022 AYLUS Pearland members volunteered at the Old Pearland Farmers Market and ran a fundraiser stand for SNCC, a special needs caring center created by the Light and Salt Association. The Old Pearland Farmers Market is an event hosted by the Pearland Park and Recreation Department on the 3rd weekend of every […]

On December 17, 2022, Pearland AYLUS volunteers went to Ed White Elementary School to tutor kids. Each volunteer was paired up with one kid — since there were a lot of volunteers from other branches this time as well — at individual cafeteria tables and tutored the kids with important math concepts like multiplication, and […]

On Dec. 11th 2022, at AYLUS Pearland’s first collaboration donation drive with Dawson CmPS team Project Food for Thought, we collected produce scraps and received many contributions. We helped design social media posts and organize/sort the produce donated. The volunteers dropped off bags of compost for us to collect as well as organized scraps and […]

On December 3, 2022, AYLUS Pearland Volunteers went to ED White Elementary school to tutor the students from 3rd -5th grade. ED White Elementary is located in a multicultural neighborhood. They have a long-term program that helps students from disadvantaged families with Math or Reading. AYLUS volunteers were assigned to different students and helped them with […]

In order to encourage AYLUS members across all the AYLUS branches to share their volunteer experiences, the AYLUS national board hosted a national essay contest, which is due on November 30th, 2022. The Great Princeton Branch of AYLUS sponsored the contest by providing $1,000 award to the winners. All the essays submitted will be reviewed […]

On Sunday, November 27th, 2022, members of the Pearland Branch volunteers gathered at the Silverlake park to pack homeless care kits and candy for Mexican children. Meanwhile they also ran a fundraiser for SMILE from 3pm to 5pm. AYLUS volunteers worked with kids from the community to pack the donated toiletries, socks, band aids, wipes, […]

During the early, humid morning of Thanksgiving (11/24/2022), AYLUS Pearland volunteers gathered near Independence Park and Pearland Parkway to help organize and distribute items for Pearland Turkey Trot. AYLUS volunteers helped out at the event from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM. At the start, volunteers helped set up tables, filled paper cups with water, and […]

Throughout the month of November, AYLUS members spent time attending several planning meetings, sorting through countless photos, and designing the 2023 AYLUS calendar. Each member worked diligently to find photos that showcased the amazing AYLUS environment, and best represented all of our members. In our meetings, we talked about design details and how to ensure […]

On Thanksgiving Day (11/24/2022), volunteers Tina Dong and Aila Jiang distributed AYLUS Pearland’s food and sanitation product donations to the St. Vincent dePaul Food Pantry. Despite the pouring rain, the volunteers swiftly gathered the items and dropped them into the collection box. The donations were all from AYLUS Pearland Board members and included 9 pounds […]