Aye-Aye, Ayuda!
Ayuda was incorporated when this president was in the White House.
Who was Richard Nixon?
Beginning in 1817, Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc began codifying this language from existing French and American gestural communication systems.
What is American Sign Language (ASL)?
This animal has the longest pregnancy of any land mammal, carrying its young for nearly two years.
What is an elephant?
This LAP team member enjoys untangling hopelessly tangled balls of yarn.
Who is Arminé?
This federal agency handles immigration requests in the US.
What is USCIS / United States Citizenship and Immigration Services?
Ayuda's flagship spring fundraising event for law firm and corporate sponsors, donors, board members, Advisory Council members, former clients, and staff.
What is “Standing with Immigrants?”
This script, based on Chinese characters, is one of the three scripts used together to write the Japanese language.
What is Kanji?
True or False: Pandas are currently in mating season.
What is true?
This LAP team member does not like vegetables.
Who is Marilyn?
Nonprofits file this IRS designation to be exempt from federal income tax.
What is a 501(c)(3)?
Ayuda's Virginia office is located in this city.
What is Fairfax?
This Caribbean language derives much of its vocabulary from French, but retains grammatical rules common to the Volta-Congo languages of West Africa.
What is Haitian Creole? (Martinican, Dominican, Guadeloupean, St. Lucian also acceptable)
A group of flamingos is called this — the same word used for a large, extravagant display.
What is a flamboyance?
This LAP team member donated 10 inches of their hair to Locks of Love, a non-profit that makes wigs for people with cancer.
Who is Lauryn?
True or false: Under U.S. law, to apply for asylum, an individual must be physically present in the United States or arrive at a port of entry.
True!
Project END is a direct legal services project aimed at remedying harm caused by this unethical and often criminal practice.
What is immigration legal services fraud / notario fraud?
Chinese may be written in one of these two scripts, depending on the country.
What are Simplified (China, Singapore, Malaysia) or Traditional (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and many overseas Chinese communities)?
This is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
This LAP team member has eaten the brain, heart, intestines, and eyeball of a sheep! (Not all in one sitting)
Who is Sean?
Unlike a grant, this type of donation gives the nonprofit complete freedom to spend the money however it sees fit.
What is unrestricted funding?
Before being incorporated as a nonprofit, this legal clinic at George Washington Law School assisted Spanish-speaking victims of consumer fraud.
What is “Ayuda Para El Consumidor?”
Name a U.S. state or territory (besides Puerto Rico) which has given official status to a language other than English. Name the language too!
Possible answers:
Alaska (20 indigenous Alaskan languages)
American Samoa (Samoan)
Guam (Chamorro)
Hawaii (Hawaiian)
New Mexico (Spanish)
Northern Mariana Islands (Chamorro and Carolinian)
South Dakota (Sioux)
Gibbons sing/call for ___ minutes during family chants or to mark their territory.
What is 30 minutes?
This LAP team member visited 71 Capital Bikeshare stations and had 314 rides in 2025!
Who is Arlene?
True or false: U.S. immigration courts are independent institution whose judges and staff are considered part of the Judicial Branch of the federal government.
False: Immigration courts are run by the Department of Justice, answerable to the Attorney General, and ultimately serve at the pleasure of the President.