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Aiming at breaking barriers that hinder educational attainment among underprivileged children, Andre Agassi is declaring his new philanthropic initiative. The 53-year-old former tennis player, in an interview, delved deeper into his current humanitarian interest, which promises to have a huge social impact on society. By using the latest science and tech available at hand, Agassi is on a one-man mission to solve the world’s literacy crisis.

The former tennis star’s ground-breaking move to revolutionize children’s education has received immense support and praise from fans and followers. Once a sensation on tennis courts, Agassi is doing the same off of it.

Andre Agassi’s new approach to helping underprivileged children across the world

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Andre Agassi’s ambition is to pair neuroscience with technology to provide customized and immediate help to millions of children across the world. His initiative to create a feedback system where neuroscience will help understand a child’s strengths and weaknesses aims to have a selective program for assistance in approaching developing the full potential of a child. “The profile of a child’s umm strength and weaknesses we have the neuroscience to understand and use that data to create the feedback and that allows a child to have an intervention that is happening in real-time,” he said in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia.

Customizing each child’s needs and providing the necessary aid to foster their emotional well-being, along with academic endeavors, will create a revolutionary way to improve the current scenario of the world’s literacy crisis. “I am in the process of doing something now that I believe will affect millions, millions of children’s lives on a global basis not just in my backyard,” he further emphasized his vision for his new philanthropic initiative.

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Andre Agassi’s contribution to various educational initiatives

In 2001, Andre Agassi founded a college preparatory academy in Las Vegas. Since then, Agassi has helped millions of children by building schools, organizing children’s foundation work, and increasing his impact on society.

While talking about his initiatives on childhood education, he said in an interview, “I regretted that we didn’t start in pre-K. It turns out that nine out of 10 dropouts were unsuccessful readers at an early age.”

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Read more: ‘He Got a Little Tough’ – Andre Agassi’s Attitude Before Ditching Nike for Adidas Revealed by Former Director

In various interviews, Andre Agassi did not shy away from admitting his terrible experience in his school days. His mention of leaving school at the early age of 14 to pursue his tennis career left a mark on him that eventually led him to build his own empire of educational foundation work. And dare we say, he’s excelling at it!

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