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Currently, Adream serves students from grades 1-9 in public schools across China. In order to provide and maintain quality education in marginalized areas and among the underprivileged sectors of the populace, we have developed the Adream Center network, which consists of the following: “Adream Centers” (a network of multimedia classrooms), “Adream Courses” (a competency-based education curriculum focused on innovative learning and student growth), “Adream Guide” (an instruction method R&D and teacher training program), “Adream Bank” (an incentives program for teachers), and “Adream Box”(a social networking services platform for teachers and beneficiary schools).

Adream Center

Back in 2008, our founder Shirley observed the problem of uneven distribution of educational resources during her field trip to Sichuan. Then we started to solve this problem by building a library for a rural school in 2008. We named it Adream Center. (It took us 5 months to build it). We hoped books in the library could help the local children to learn about the bigger world then they might find their dreams with our help.
Nowadays, we have a very mature supply-chain and we can build an Adream Center in 28days, with competitive price. In the latest version, we also equip the classroom with new technologies, such as 3D printing and VR.
We have built 5858 Adream centers until the end of 2023 and benefited more than 6.8 million students and teachers.

Adream Curriculum

After the first Adream Center was built, we soon realized that the hardware is not the key problem. Although we have provided quality equipment, the teahcers and principals did not allow students to use it for fear that they would damage the books and continue to emphasize the importance of exams and scores. The old exam-focused mindset is still there. This was obviously contrary to our purpose. We believe education must be able to enlighten students, and to engage in whole-person development.
Hence, we worked with professors from prestigious universities to develop courses to make the best use of space. Until now, we have developed 38 Adream courses, in the area of empowering girls, art, career development, etc.

Project Dream·Love-at-Border

Adream leverages its cross-sectoral collaboration advantages to target counties with weak educational foundations in border areas. With a three-year cycle, Adream implements the model of “1 (a national brand enterprise) + 1 (a leading urban school) + 5 (a Love-at-Border School + 3-5 surrounding Dream Center radiated schools) + X (Dream Education + customized high-quality educational products/services)” to assist project counties in improving the educational ecosystem and support the high-quality and balanced development of basic education in border areas. The “Love-at-Border” project assists border schools to offer Dream Curriculum, continuously introducing experience in the field of competency-based education, especially leveraging the resource advantages of music, physical and art education and comprehensive practical activity curriculum. It also organizes Dream Salons (local cross-school teaching and research communities) to conduct online and ofine teaching and research activities. The Adream Online School is established, equipped with recording and live broadcasting devices, to connect with remote training from leading urban schools and other high-quality educational resource providers, introducing high-quality educational resources to border counties and forming a three-dimensional assistance ‘Internet + Education Community’ to support the comprehensive development of children in border areas.

Project Dream·One County One Dream

The “Project Dream·One County One Dream” initiative allocates 1 million yuan to each county, focusing on the following main activities: conducting teacher training for specialized curricula in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labouring education; providing the necessary courseware, hardware, software and learning resources for teachers; organizing teaching and research exchange sessions; and organizing cross-school class demonstration, observation and evaluation activities. In 2023, Adream collaborated with three caring enterprises to support the “Project Dream·One County One Dream” initiative, with a total donation of 3 million yuan. Of this, Proya donated 1 million yuan to provide Sports Dream Courses for 14 schools in Qiemo County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, sponsor a sports game, build a sports feld, and donate sports equipment; Shenzhen Zhima Health Investment Co., Ltd. donated 1 million yuan to provide the “One County One Dream – Frisbee Special Sports Dream Courses” for 20 schools in Fengxin County, Jiangxi Province; and First Seafront Fund donated 1 million yuan to provide various sports training for all teachers and students in Deqin County, Yunnan Province, sponsor sports meets, basketball games for county-wide primary and secondary schools, etc. Currently, the project is progressing and being implemented orderly

Project Dream·Adream Normal Class

“Project Dream – Adream Normal Class” collaborates with normal schools in the central and western regions of China, with a focus on “Dream Education”. This initiative connects outstanding postemployment “dream teachers” with exceptional pre-service normal school students to establish a mentorship model. The model ofers normal school students an opportunity to learn on-site before their employment, gaining hands-on experience in rural classrooms. This integration facilitates a seamless transition from being a student to becoming a teacher, fostering a group of “dream teachers” who are both grounded in reality and inspired by aspiration.

Deam Journey

Dream Journey is one of the 38 Adream Courses designed to benefit students, particularly left behind children in grades 5-9 in rural areas of China.

Origin Story

In 2012, a touching story reached Sherly from an Adream center in Chongqing. It was about children left behind in a village who longed to see their parents working in the city. In an attempt to reunite with them, these children sold eggs from their homes to buy train tickets. Unfortunately, their lack of practical life skills and experience led to failure.
As a solution, Dream Journey was designed as a PBL course to assist students in independently planning and executing a trip within certain budget to a distant location. By the end of the course, each team will provide a detailed outing plan to our Drean Journey Department. After careful selection, we will support teams with excellent plans to realise their Dream Journey!
Throughout the course and the final trip, students are students are to improve their practial skills, such as communication, teamwork and use of internet. This project also seeks to strengthen the connections and mutual understanding between students, teachers, and parents.

Social Impact

Since 2012, more than 15 million students have participated in the Dream Journey course. This includes 1600 teams (13500 students) from 30 provinces who went on travel. In 2022 alone, 3100 students journeyed alongside 500 volunteers.

International Dream Journey

In 2019, Shanghai Adream Charitable Foundation experimented to introduce Dream Journey abroad for the first time, under the guidance of China NGO Network for Interntational Exchanges. With the help of the Ministry of Education of Mongolia, children, teachers, and volunteers from Mongolia were invited to Shanghai. Through visits to cities and enterprises, the children were given the opportunity for cross-cultural exchange and learning.

Sturdy Growth Charity Project with Anta Group

In 2017, Anta Group partnered with Adream Foundation to initiate the “Sturdy Growth Charity Project” Centered around the concept of “enabling children to relish the joy of sports and achieve vigorous growth,” this program concentrates on the public welfare of youth sports. It is dedicated to enhancing sports education for young people, ensuring that more adolescents from less developed regions. The Sturdy Growth Charity Project has implemented the following programs:
1.The Anta equipment bag program is committed to realizing the public welfare goal of enabling every needy youth in underdeveloped areas of China to wear Anta sports equipment.
2.Anta Sports Classes is one of the core projects of the Thrive Charity Program 2.0. In 2023, it covered 319 schools in 17 provinces. This program aims to provide professional training for PE teachers. We trained 5407 PE teachers from 31 provinces. More than 2.5 million students has benefited from this program in 2023.
3.The Anta Sports Camp program focuses on the region where Anta sports classes are deeply cultivated, and helps to promote the development of regional sports education by carrying out various types of special training sports camps. The camps have benefited 12 schools in 5 different provinces.

Social Impact

From 2017 to 2023, thanks to the donations from Anta and Adream’s local operation, Sturdy Growth Charity Project has benefited more than 3 million teachers and students from over 3,000 schools. Anta has also donated 8 soccer and basketball fields to 4 different provinces, benefited more than 4000 students.
Moreover, students’ attitudes towards sports have changed, most notably in terms of more active participation in sports, higher interest in PE classes, and more dedication to sports. 58.5% (more than half) of the students believe that they are “more active in sports”.