Project Why is a New Delhi (India) based non-profit organisation engaged in 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 and reach out to over 1000 children, 160 women and their families..

Our programmes include:

PROJECT WHY STORY

Project WHY was conceived to answer a series of queries :

Project WHY set out to create a sound 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 1000 children and runs one early education programmes, four primary and three secondary after school support programmes, a day care and life skills programme for 20 children with disabilities, as well as three computer centres.

The year gone by was a quiet one. It proved once again that the model we had selected and implemented was a solid and durable one. After the now almost forgotten initial hiccups, the project ran almost on its own! The small impediments, if any were taken on efficiently by the incredible team that steers the project. Once again the decision to employ local talent was more than vindicated. The children past all their examinations class or Boards! Many children topped their class. It was time to get our very own red carpet!

Looking at the project was enough to chase any blues or gloom. A walk down memory lane even revealed some secrets one had forgotten.

2012 was also a year that brought to the fore quite surreptitiously one of the very first by lines we had conjured but somewhat forgotten: where children dare to dream! It seems like having a well run project made us forget the importance of dreams and how they and they only could keep the project vibrant and alive.

This could happen because of a short film made with the help of two volunteers that brought a special meaning to Lennon's Imagine and the incredible dreamcatchers of our very special kids. We still had a long way to go.

The terrifying incident that shook the whole country made us rethink our role. The brutal rape and murder of a young woman brought to fore the fact that education alone cannot suffice to change mindsets. It is imperative for an organisation like ours that works with underprivileged children to go beyond curriculum and sensitise our children to gender and other important issues. We intend doing just that.

2013 looks like being the year we revisit our mission!