ILP亚洲峰会圆满闭幕
12日-18日，美国国际志愿组织亚洲主办学校联盟会议在泰国披集府皇家双语学校召开。来自中国内地举办学校校长们和泰国学校校长们进行了为期一周的交流和研讨。本次活动由美国 ILP总部主办，中国办事处华立教育国际部和泰国披集皇家双语学校共同承办。
2016年亚洲国家（含香港和台湾地区） 申请国际志愿者项目工作已经开始，www.hualiedu.com/waijiao
Dear Ms. Tang ,Thai Phichit Bilingual School Principal, Mr. Jerry Hansen, President
of the Board of Directors of United States ILP Project, leaders and teachers of ILP
China sponsoring schools, all our friends:
Good evening!
I’m very pleased to meet you in Thailand, which is known as “country of freedom
” and “country of thousands of Buddha”. I’
m ZHANG Li, head of China Hefei Huali Education Group, the ILP project office uni
t.
First of all, I would like to thank and welcome everyone to participate in this “ILP I
nternational Language Organization” Asia Summit, which is hosted by the United
States ILP headquarters and undertaken by ILP China Office & Hefei Huali Educati
on Group. I shall also express particular thanks to Thailand ILP sponsoring school
XX for their great supports. In order to organize this event, my wife Ms. WAN Ping
(SALLY) started preparing three months in advance, and she is now pregnant for f
our months. We will celebrate the birth of our second baby in the next April, so I w
ould also like to thank my wife for her professional ethnics and spirit of service. I h
ope you can give her a round of applause.
ILP stands for international language project. ILP is the volunteer teachers progrm
m of true meaning, which is launched by the United States International Language
Organizations, and there are partner schools in Mexico, Russia, Asia, China, Thaila
nd and South Korea now. Since 2001 when it was introduced to China, the program
mm has won great influence. During that period, almost all the most famous Chin
ese education groups have worked with our project, and it is also one of the longe
st-lasting international language projects in China currently. Each partner school h
as received careful preliminary investigation, discussion over cooperation, and exe
cution process. It is worth mentioning that, we both have made great efforts in th
e actual operation. In terms of project management, the most difficult thing is per
sonnel management, especially the management of our foreign volunteer teacher
s. In this regard, our Chinese partner schools have done a lot of works, and repress
entatives from the schools, who attend the meeting today, may have profound ex
perience. Due to the possible differences in grasping and understanding of the pr
oject by principals of our various sponsoring schools, as well as the differences in t
emper, character and work efficiency of our project directors and specific project
managers, the effects of project implemented in different schools may vary to a ce
rtain extent. However, there are two aspects worth approving. The first is that vari
ous schools have benefited from the project itself, including the enhancement of s
chool’s brand awareness, the improvement of school’
s English teaching strength, and the ultimate increase in school enrollment. The se
cond that we have made efficient communication in good faith with the partner sc
hools nationwide from the outset. All of our e-mails and calls are about works, an
d in case of some problems and differences in opinion, they are all about our work
s. When talking about foreign affairs works, Premier Zhou Enlai said, “no foreign
affair is too petty to deal with”. In a lot of schools, their principal or assistant prin
cipal in charge of teaching manage the ILP project in person, showing great impor
tance attached thereto. So I would like to take this opportunity to express thanks t
o the sponsoring schools’ leaders for their tolerance, and cooperation and suppo
rts in communications. The consensus we have reached with respect to ILP project
itself is the basis of our cooperation.
“Stay hungry, stay foolish”, this is what former Apple CEO Steve Jobs said. Anot
her purpose of this summit is to allow all our sponsoring schools to make open-mi
nded and frank discussions and exchanges together about how to carry out the IL
P project better, and about what the other project requirements are and what proj
ect resources to be shared. At the subsequent workshop, everyone can put forwar
d your opinions. We are all engaged in international education programs, for which
h broad experience, forward-looking vision, thinking of copinism, courage for exec
ution and willing-to-share spirit are all necessary.
Our outstanding principals, ladies and gentlemen, education is our common cause
, and ILP project is the bridge and beginning of our cooperation, from which we b
enefit and achieve win-win situation. I hope we can treasure this great opportunity
to be acquaintance with each other, cooperate sincerely, and start more cooperate
on and exchanges on a larger platform. I believe we will certainly implement ILP pr
oject better by virtue of the strong support from the US headquarters, the 16-year
operation experience in international education projects and ILP project impleme
ntation experience of China’s sponsors, who have excellent teachers like SALLY,
as well as the outstanding principals and teachers present here.
Finally, I wish this ILP International Language Organization Asia Summit a great su
ccess and wish you all good health and career success!