By Oudou Sanogo | Director of Virtual Exchange Program
2023-2024 Year in Review
This year 15 schools from 9 countries - Georgia, USA, Tanzania, Czech Republic, Finland, India, Ghana, Wallis & Futuna Islands, and Egypt - participated in the Virtual Exchange Program. About 80% of the schools needed full sponsorship and 20% needed partial sponsorship. While the annual report and data analysis for the Program impact is in progress, the initial preview show shows a 100% approval rate from the teachers and 85% from the students who completed the survey.
We are very excited about the number of new schools interested in joining us next year. Some of the new countries expected to join the Program include Uganda, Senegal, Pakistan, South Africa, Chile, Cameroon, Mexico, and Gabon. These new schools and countries would bring an enriching mix of diversity to the Program.
An impact Story from Students in Greentown, IN
At United All Schools, we are all about sharing, learning, and collaborating to help address shared challenges locally and abroad. Imagine the pride and warm feeling a middle school student gets from being able to help uplift a local family from poverty! Yes, that’s what our participants from Eastern Middle school in Greentown, IN, accomplished in Spring 2024. Through their project, students raised funds through innovative activities with their teacher to buy a cow, a goat and chickens for food and income-generation source for a family in the community. Our Virtual Exchange model is weaved in to not only bring cultural awareness and appreciation to students around the world, but also develop their leadership skills through place-based projects. As they identify, research, and implement these projects, they become more aware of the challenges, opportunities, and resources available in their communities, locally and internationally as they share and discuss together.
What participants are saying:
“During our global goals project, I’ve interacted with many new people from many other countries. It made me very aware of how many people really live in poverty. The overall experience was great and I’m lucky to have gotten to go through it” – U.S participant.
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