Starting December 2019, a new coronavirus (COVID-19) has quickly raised international concern. Check here for the real time cases and deaths from the coronavirus in our country and the world: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
December 2023 Update:
Nationwide Winter Clothing Drive, Keep Everyone Warm!
December 2022 Update:
Three years of COVID-19 around the globe, going away. Thanks to Real Heroes for saving lives!
August 2022 Update:
March 2022 Update:
Two years of COVID-19 have passed. To thank First Respond Heroes fighting against the pandemic, AYLUS members started a fundraiser event in January, using donations from the youth benefit concerts to buy meals for hundreds of Emergency Medical Service, First Aid & Rescue Squads, and healthcare professionals throughout the State of New Jersey.
December 2021 Update:
Please watch our Positive Psychology Seminar from December 18th, 2021
November 2021 Update:
The number of people who have died from Covid-19 around the world has surpassed five million, according to data held by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Center. Different countries’ epidemics have followed different trajectories. The United States has been the worst hit, with the highest number of cases and deaths. About 46 million cases have been reported in the country and over 745,800 patients have died, according to JHU.
Everyone may want to make choices: get sick, or get vaccinated.
September 2021 Update:
AYLUS honors firefighter heroes with “Meals from the Heart”.
July 2021 Update:
To celebrate this unique Independence Day while the entire country is gradually stepping out of the COVID-19 pandemic, AYLUS members put together a performance concert to thank all that work so hard and bravely over the past 15 months. Stay safe and enjoy.
March-July 2021:
AYLUS International Art Contest (2020-2021) with the theme of COVID-19 Pandemic. All students K-12 are eligible to enter. Multiple entries, 2-D, digital paintings, and 3-D entries allowed. Submission deadline: June 30th, 2021. Contact AYLUS President & Save A Life with Art Committee Chair Cassie Tammy Wang (aylus.org@gmail.com) to enter. See flyer for the details:
By the submission deadline, AYLUS has received artworks created by many young artists from 9 states in the United States (AZ, CA, CO, LA, NJ, NY, TN, TX, and VA), the United Kingdom (England), and many oversea locations. Here are the TOP TEN Winners with the contest showcase:
February 2021 Update:
January 2021 Update:
AYLUS won’t forget the children over this pandemic. Here it comes our Save the Children drive!
2020 was a year-long test of our resilience as a nation and the first full week of the New Year has been more of the same. AYLUS Wishing Everyone a Safe & Healthy New Year 2021!
December 2020 Update: Holiday Performance for Healthcare Professionals!
We wish all healthcare professionals and everyone a very Happy Holiday Season and a very Healthy New Year in 2021.
November 2020 Update: AYLUS Volunteers Care for the Seniors!
It’s been a very long year; a global pandemic completely changed our lives, rendering ourselves internet inhabitants, where all social interaction is through a screen. However, this physical isolation has caused much loneliness in senior centers. Since seniors are disproportionately affected by COVID, senior centers have tightened restrictions on personal visits to facilities. With the difficulty involved in setting up calls and the simple lack of face-to-face interaction, senior centers are dealing with the worst effects of isolation.
To combat this, we should donate and write cards to these centers, to bring the warmth of this holiday season to them in the best way we can! You can design a digital card or write on a physical card. You can share stories, introspective reflections, jokes, etc.
These centers are also looking for donations, such as hygiene items (face masks, hand sanitizer, soap, paper towels, tissues) and snacks (chips, cookies). Let’s all work together to bring this holiday season to senior centers through card writing and donations!
Check out the flyer for more information on donation items, card guidelines, and contact info to drop off your donations!
October 2020 Update: AYLUS Nationwide Winter Clothing Drive to Keep Everyone Warm!
No one should go cold this winter! The health effects of extreme cold are life threatening. The unprecedented crisis created by the COVID-19 Pandemic is affecting the lives of millions of people. Families who were already struggling are now at severe risk, and many cannot pay their utility bills. The need for coats this fall and winter will be greater than ever before!
Approximately 200,000 people die each year from the cold. Children cannot regulate their body temperatures as adults do. They can quickly develop hypothermia without protection from the cold. Cold weather makes the body work harder, putting stress on the heart to ensure the body stays warm. A previous study found up to a 31% increase in heart attacks in the coldest months of the year compared with the warmest. Exposure to cold predisposes people, especially children, to infections like pneumonia.
Starting with Greater Princeton Branch Alissa Wu and President Cassie Tammy Wang, AYLUS encourages all members to take part in this Winter Clothing Drive and promote donations of winter clothing in their communities. The clothing items go to charity organizations such as Goodwill Donation Center to help people in need.
DONATE CLOTHES and SAVE A LIFE!
July-September 2020 Update:
We need donations to assist healthcare workers at hospitals & nursing homes treating the infected. Please consider donating to AYLUS!
March-June 2020 Update:
The deadly coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the globe, with cases now confirmed in every American state, the District of Columbia and most U.S. territories. As the number of cases grows despite increasingly strict quarantine measures, US medical workers especially doctors and nurses in hospitals really need our help and support. Because they are short of face masks, protective gown and medical devices in US, we would like to launch this Campaign to support our US hospital and senior center communities. Your donation can help doctors, nurses, patients and seniors. You can help to save more lives.
February 2020 Update:
So far, AYLUS has raised in the total of $11,860 on the platform “GoFundMe” to fight the coronavirus, total raised by 94 people in 13 days.
Based on the front line doctor requests from the hospital in Wuhan, The most of the patients struggling with new coronavirus have the difficulty to breathe because of the damage of lungs by coronavirus, so the ventilators are helpful to the patient. However, current ventilator is really shortage in all the hospitals in Wuhan because of an immense amount of patients.
AYLUS partnering with ACCEF (American Chinese Culture Education Foundation) and AiWeiLai Charity in Wuxi, China to donate 5 Philips WeiKang ST30 non-Invasive ventilators(Machine (BiPAP S/T 30 AVAPS Dual Level Non-Invasive Ventilator), delivered to HuBei SuiZhou Central Hospital on February 7th, 2020.
Image Courtesy of NBC News
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We will issue receipts back to those who donate. You can use these receipts to ask your employer to match your donation. Thank you for helping us fight the Coronavirus!
Contact: aylus.org@gmail.com for questions