ADA Growing and Changing Lives in 2025

 

Overview of the ADA’s impact on students and families and the foundation’s fundraising efforts throughout the year.

ADA Growing and Changing Lives in 2025

 

Stories from the African Dream Academy

 

In April 2024, Lydia Spinellli, ADAF Board President visited the school in Liberia along with a group of supporters. Listen to Sophia Pedrazzi, a high school senior, as she describes her amazing experience with the students and teachers.  

Stories from the African Dream Academy

 

African Dream Academy: Then to Now and Beyond

 

Over ten years have passed since African Dream Academy  opened its doors to 144 children in September 2012. Watch the story of its beginning and how far it has come.

African Dream Academy: Then to Now and Beyond

 
 

2021Bird’s-Eye View of the New ADA Campus

 

We hired a Liberian filmmaker to make a 3-minute video, so that you can see up close how your gifts are changing the lives of our ADA children and their families. Please watch and enjoy this film, which, for the first time, provides a beautiful “bird’s-eye view” of ADA’s new school campus, and know that we are very, very grateful for your generous support.

A 2021 Bird’s-Eye View of the New African Dream Academy Campus

 
 

2018 African Dream Academy Video

 

Watch this film from our 2018 trip to see how African Dream Academy has grown and its plans for the future.

  • Director & cinematographer: Ian McAlpin

  • Editor: Tanya Ager Meillier

  • Music by: Timothy T. Cleary

  • Sound recording: Matt Smerling, David Bedard, Oscar Sloterbeck

  • Interviews conducted by: Lydia Spinelli & Karen Gaines

  • Thanks to: Samuel Enders, Lydia Spinelli, Karen Gaines, Kathryn Smerling, Matt Smerling, Gracey Stoddard, Oscar Sloterbeck, David Bedard, Jennifer Gonçalves, Megan Raelson, Timothy T. Cleary, Richard Levengood, Jennifer Judkins, Alexander Meillier