Fifteen-year-old Celine E. Gray of the Don Bosco Technical High School and her friends Watta Konneh, and Mary Laurina Metieh in summer of 2012 wondered what to do during their break. Some of the things that popped up in their minds were writing a book or producing a song or better still participating in a summer camp.

As they tussled over ideas, Celine thought about the Rock of Divine School and Orphanage Home where she spent her tenth birthday. As a promising young girl and based on her experience at the orphanage, Celine felt attached and moved to the extent that the only thing that kept ringing in her mind was to open a vacation school for orphans at the Rock of Divine School and Orphanage Home. Not knowing where to start from and how to make it happen, it became a dream for Celine and two young friends of the Don Bosco Technical High School, Catholic-run educational institution.

Excited about the inspiration and the support from her friends Mary and Watta Celine wasted no time in encouraging them to begin work immediately on how to make their dream come true.

She had just turned 14 and hadn't the inch of imagination on the implication and all the work required in the implementation or realization of such a dream. Her parents advised she and her friends along the way, reminding them of how huge a task they were undertaking. Celine states how she listened to her parents, but was determined along with her friends to see their dream come true. "As their daughter I listened to their advice and obeyed, but didn't give up".

In their pursuit to actualize their dream, Celine remembered she and her friend Mary's enrollment at a vacation program that lasted four weeks while their other friend Watta worked at a summer School and took care of a kindergarten class. At the vacation school, Celine recounted how they learned a lot of things; from learning to work with others, putting a smile on other people's faces, to being a leader, working as a team and always being reminded that there is no "I" in a team work but to always be there for each other.

"As the four weeks went by and the camp closed, it was time to say goodbye to the friends we made" Celine narrates. Following their experience, school reopened and they were promoted to the 10th grade in the senior high division. Even though they were now concentrating on their academic work "we didn't forget our dream" Celine explains. In May of 2013 their birthdays came and passed with Celine turning 15 and her friends Mary and Watta turning 16. They were now more energized to take on the project that has been lingering in their minds.

On one sunny day after school, 15 year-old Celine Gray and her friends sat to the dining table at her house where she remembered telling them how prepared she thought they were to start their project. According to her, her both parents starred at each other with a conviction and looking at their daughter and her friends nodding in support of their desire to make their dream come true. Celine's parents wasted no time to grant them permission to start.

Immediately, they set an appointment with the Operator of the orphanage on a Sunday afternoon. With that time the three Don Bosco High School Students started planning their program before they knew it. It was a Sunday and Celine and her parents, friends and her aunt (deceased) who was very supportive of her before the project was launched, were sitting at a table discussing their plan for the summer. Celine recounts how they were bothered about the big question of where their budget would be coming from with the minimum projected @ 1,800.00 US.

They were quite aware that the idea of opening a summer school for orphans was very costly, even though they weren't working but were determined. Before that Sunday she and her friends engaged in the making and selling "milk candy" every day after school at Don Bosco. They thought that their little "milk candy" business venture would help, surprised them because it did not start anything. By this time they sought Divine intervention because things did not seem to be working in their favor.

Celine's parents Mr. Robert A. Gray and Rosaline E. Gray hit their daughter and friends' project "bucket" first with $ 2000 USD to jump-start their plan. Really supportive of realizing this determined dream of their daughter and her friends, the Grays on one Tuesday afternoon surprised their daughter when they wrote a check for $2000 US to get the three girls moving with smiles written on their faces. Celine said with this motivation from her parents, they set out to the Rock of Divine School and Orphanage Home and began negotiation with the Operator one Rev. Fatu Smith, presenting their write out of what they had planned to do.

This support from Celine's parents was a real inspiration because when the three girls returned to school, they began informing their friends about their dream. Being very aware that they could not carry out the project alone, Celine and her friends gathered a team consisting of 18 students to participate. They sought their classmates and schoolmates' support. "Before we knew it, we had bags filled with clothes' Celine said; adding that "with all that was going on, we still found time for our studies but kept our project at heart".

They became more and more aware that they would have encountered trials, temptations along with challenges during their work. Celine, Mary and Watta later realized that they were running low on cash and compounded with their responsibility to feed 85 children and to buy all materials needed for the project, "we were almost broken down" according to Celine.

The thought of soliciting assistance came to the three Don Bosco Technical High School Students. They first thought to use the radio when they visited FABRIC Radio 101.1 FM and met Trojan Kiazolu who featured them on one of their programs. But this did not reap a good result.

When this failed, they decided to make a list of few people they knew and went to them explaining what they had planned for their vacation. Luckily, those who were asked found it extraordinary and fascinating and donated. As the months passed and turned into days that became hours, the three girls' dream came true on a rainy Tuesday when their "vacation school" was launched. The day was July 18, 2013. Even the unfriendly weather did not discourage them as they decorated and painted their rooms and hung up posters with motivating words in the various rooms as their animators arrived. They organized the orphans into various groups of four and before they knew it, the sun was up and the orphans were into games playing.

The series of activities marking the launch of the three girls' dream were climaxed around 5pm. The parents of Celine, Mary and Watta, friends, relatives and well-wishers were all in attendance on that beautiful July 18, 2013 day. According to them, their project was successfully launched and is moving softly and smoothly bringing smiles and joy to many less fortunate children in Liberia. It is expected to end on August 17, 2013.

"As many may say a dream is meant for sleeping or a dream is make believe, my definition for a dream is a reality waiting to happen. As the dream of my friends and I became a reality, so can yours and others, once you have friends and family who believe in you and most of all you believe in yourself and pay no mind to the "mouth" of others for your reward comes from the almighty God and not man

A dream is what you make of it!