Project Why is a New Delhi (India) based non-profit organisation engagedin education support and life skill enhancement of slum children and their families. We opened our first education center in 2000 and now, thanks to the generous support of friends and well wishers, have expanded our activities.

Our programmes include:

PROJECT WHY STORY

Project WHY was conceived to answer a series of queries :

Project WHY set out to create a model whereby quality education support in underprivileged areas, could be spearheaded by parents even if they were illiterate.

The idea was to empower the community to pool its resources and run a sound support programme for its children.

Project WHY started with 40 children and spoken English classes.

Today it reaches out to over 700 children and runs three early education programmes, one prep class, four primary and three secondary after school support programmes, a day care and life skills programme for 20 children with disabilities, a residential facility for three young aduts with special needs as well as three computer centres.

Year 2010 heralds the 10th year of our existence. It is time to celebrate but also to stop and think about the decade gone by and question the relevance of our work. The disturbing why that prompted us to launch our work was: why do children from underprivileged backgrounds drop pour of school? And for the past 10 years we tried as meticulously as possible to answer this question and achieved tangible success. Yet today we are compelled to ask ourselves whether this goal is sufficient. An average school leaving certificate is not the key to change. What we need today is to find a way to ensure that project why children become agents of change and in order to do so we need to slowly move from quantity to quality. It is time we mutate

This is the challenge we face at the dawn of this new decade. We are on the threshold of making some course corrections and see how we can introduce quality education, the kind a child gets in the best of schools, within our limited resources. It is indeed ambitious but we are confident we will find the way. Hence 2010 promises to be an exciting and eventful year for the project family.