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Comments twitter facebook Sina Microblog reddit SHANGHAI, Jan. 4 -- World-renowned basketball player Yao Ming has joined hands withe-education agency VIPABC to provide online English teaching sessions for children inChina's less developed west, so as to present them with better chances to pursue their owndreams.
As part of their cooperation, VIPABC and the Yao Foundation are poised to take advantageof their respective strengths to offer online English teaching sessions free of charge forindigent students in western China.
"Lots of places in China's west are indeed short of educational resources ... The lack ofteachers is a particularly serious problem, which cannot be solved within one or two years,"said Yao.
The former NBA star has turned into an active philanthropist since his retirement fromprofessional basketball - volunteering for Special Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo,donating to Wenchuan Earthquake victimes, building schools and protecting wild life.
"Through remote education, VIPABC can link children living in those mountainous areaswith foreign teachers across the world," said Yao.
"That will not only facilitate their language learning, but also offer them a chance to changetheir outlook, to see the outside world, and to help their imagination break away from thecage of the mountains."
Boasting a 1,000-strong staff of select foreign teachers and equipped with a sea ofindependently developed teaching materials, a revolutionary point-to-point real-personmobile education platform and the world's first dynamic course generation system,VIPABC is dedicated to and capable of providing customized, private, efficient and real-time English training services. So far, VIPABC has carried out more than 5 million real-person training sessions in 14 countries or regions with a coverage of nearly all time zones.
More cooperation projects for educational charity are in the offing between VIPABC andthe Yao Foundation, said Dr. Eric Yang, the CEO.
"Language has the power to make a difference. We will continue to use our faculty andplatform advantages to help more people pursue their goals. I think that is our socialresponsibility," he said.
（Editor：ZhangQian、Yao Chun）
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