United Way Ghana's Second Grade Exchange Project Impact Story United Way Ghana's Second Grade Exchange Project By Estíbaliz Líppez Share this naette.lee Thu, 01/22/2026 - 14:03 Eight-year-old Mariam was scared to read in front of others. She loved stories but kept her hand down when teachers asked for volunteers. “Before the exchange, I didn’t like to read in front of people because I was scared they would laugh,” she says. That changed when she joined the Second Grade Exchange Project, a United Way Ghana initiative that expands opportunities for and instills confidence in young learners. The program brings together students from under-resourced public schools like Mariam’s and peers from private international academies like Lincoln Community School. Through shared research projects, storytelling sessions, and cross-school activities, students experience something rare in their early academic lives: belonging across difference. United Way Ghana doesn’t take a one-size-fits-all approach.…