Hu Zunxun (L), a teacher of Jinzhai County Hope Primary School, tutors his student Hu Yali to make up the lessons she had missed in Jinzhai County, east China's Anhui Province, in this file photo taken on May, 1991. Hu Zunxun travel over 10 kilometers to help Hu Yali as she had discontinued her study for one year. [Xinhua]

A girl practices writing with a stick on the ground at a primary school in Wanyaozi village, Lintao County, northwest China's Gansu Province, in December, 1998. Many children in this village went back to school with the help of Hope Project. [Xinhua]