Retiree helps rural students

Weekend study sessions organized for children under care of grandparents

Beijing resident Yan Minwen, 76, spends more than 12 hours each weekend traveling to and from a village in neighboring Hebei province to give private lessons to children left in their grandparents' care.

Yan began visiting Xiguanzhuang village, about 100 kilometers southwest of the capital, in March and hasn't skipped a week apart from the summer school holiday.