Greater Princeton AYLUS Intro

Elizabeth Yunjue

AYLUS stands for the Alliance of Youth Leaders in the United States. We are a student-run non-profit organization based in the United States and we promote the development of its members’ leadership, integrity and innovation, through the planning and execution of volunteer projects that aim at benefiting their communities.美国青年领袖联盟是一个学生运行的非盈利组织。我们提倡通过计划和执行有益于社区的义工活动来发展培养成员的领导力、诚信和发明创造等能力。 On November 30, 2018, forty-nine students led by Cassie Tammy Wang, an Award-Winning and Published Artist from the West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, New Jersey, founded the 44th branch of AYLUS: Greater Princeton, also called GPA. Today, we have grown to over two hundred members.2018年十一月三十日，以新泽西州西温莎市南高中九年级学生王丹玫为首的四十九名中学生创建了AYLUS大普林斯顿分部（简称GPA）。时至今日，我们已经拥有了超过两百名的成员。 Our two hundred plus members of GPA work as a team. We use talents in art, music, math, sports, science, engineering, bilingual skills, reading and writing to create unique community service projects.作为一个整体，GPA成员们利用自己在艺术、音乐、体育、数学、科学以及双语言上的能力及特长创造了许多卓越的社区服务项目。 GPA routinely hosts "Music from the Heart” performances on holidays at the Veterans Memorial Home of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Merwick Care, Wishing Well Care, Atrium Senior Living, and John P. Fricano Towers Senior Residence to bring lots of joys to community.GPA常常于节假日在各个老年中心、荣军院举行“心灵之音”义演活动，为社区的退伍老兵、退休老人们带去无限欢乐。 GPA sponsors the annual Charity Art Shows hosted at Sharron Art Center to raise $8145 dollars in order to help orphans in East Asia return to school for education.就在今年，GPA与莎伦画院合作组织并赞助了年度慈善艺术展，为帮助东亚孤儿能回到校园受教育而募集了善款$8145。 GPA sponsors the 2019-2020 AYLUS International Art Contest, accepting artworks from any students of grade categories 4-12. GPA还倡议并策划了美国青年领袖联盟2019-2020年度国际绘画大赛，接受来自四到十二年级不同年龄段青少年艺术家们的投稿作品。 GPA often promotes Cultural Exchange with newspapers in both English and Chinese, including The AYLUS Times, ChinaPress Junior Reporter Times, Global Chinese Times, Star News Week, and Chinese News Weekly.GPA经常和多种英文和中文新闻媒体一起倡导文化交流活动。包括AYLUS时报、侨报小记者报、新州周报、新象周刊、新星周刊等。 GPA encourages its skilled members to help tutor other students, either local or abroad, in language or math, science or technology, academics or sports.GPA还大力倡导其下多才多艺的成员们在语言、数学、科学技术等学术领域以及体育领域方面给予本地和国外学生提供指导帮助服务。 GPA members also participates in “Conservation” events held by local townships, for example, Plainsboro’s stream clean ups, South Brunswick’s lakeside gardening, and Princeton’s “Roots for River” tree-planting events, as well as the Earth Team Volunteer Program at the Natural Resources Conservation Service for land use optimization.GPA成员积极参与附近社区的各种环保公益活动。例如春季各大公园的清扫、植树活动，大家在踏青中完成了愉快的社区服务。 GPA cares for people in need. We serve meals and clean dishes at the Princeton Cornerstone Community Kitchen; we collect and donate used books to help build libraries for seniors and children.GPA也非常关心身边那些需要帮助的人们。我们不但在社区食堂帮厨，而且还收集和捐献旧书为老人和儿童们帮建图书馆。 We participate in national events such as “Walk to End Alzheimer's”.最近GPA刚刚参与了一场盛大的“步行终结阿尔兹海默症”集会。“步行终结阿尔兹海默症”是世界上最大规模的呼吁关注阿尔兹海默症和筹款资助医学研究和病人护理的系列活动。 We apply BlockChain technology to collect and donate farm produce and hygiene products to local residence with food insecurity.GPA还运用区块链技术帮助农场收集各类剩余农产品，提供给那些需要食物的本地居民。 GPA initiated the “We Save A Life” Community Service Benefit Foundation on June 1, 2019. Thirty members contributed to it. Fundraising events like lemonade stand sales, charity art exhibitions.2019年6月1日，GPA的三十位成员创建了社区服务创益基金会“We Save A Life”，举行了一系列的义卖、慈善艺术作品展之类的募捐活动。 Benefit music performances are hosted regularly to financially support people in need, such as Ms. Su Wei, a teacher who was recently battling cancer alone by raising $5185 dollars from our benefit music performance.GPA还经常组织音乐会义演，善款用于资助那些需要帮助的人们。最近我们就通过🎵音乐会义演为独自和癌症搏斗的苏卫老师筹集捐款$5185。 We will host our next Benefit Music Performance on December 14th, 2019 in Princeton, to support Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad. For tickets and donations, please call/Zelle: 609-721-2843 or PayPal: yiwang444@yahoo.com.2019年十二月十四号，GPA将举行又一次音乐会义演。此次活动的募款将用来支持普林斯顿紧急救援队。关于售票和捐款事宜请电话☎️/Zelle： 609-721-2843; 或 PayPal：yiwang444@yahoo.com Students of all grades are welcome to join AYLUS; together we can grow as a strong team. Together, we’ll make our community a better place!To become a member, please call or text 609-721-2843, and add WeChat ID: yiwang444999. 欢迎👏👏👏各个年龄段的青少年加入到AYLUS的集体中来。让我们携手并进，让我们的社区更美好！具体加入事宜请电询或短信：609-721-2843，微信号：yiwang444999。 下面是AYLUS会员制作的宣传视频，敬请观看。