In summer 2005 , Richard Zhao, Chair of Operation D.E.E.P., stayed in Yujiang for D.E.E.P.’s first teaching project. It was a very unique experience for him to live in the less developed part of China for three weeks. During the first week, he taught English to the students at Jindun, Nixia, and Huangxi Elementary Schools. The week after, he gave training to a group of twenty English teachers from Yujiang. During his final week Zhao hosted a delegation group of 21 faculty members from Lake Forest Academy and took them around Yujiang to show them the conditions in which China’s underprivileged students studied.