ANOU’S BLOG
guess whose coming to tea…
guess whose coming to tea... project why's very special page '3' ladies... seema, sarita, geeta, urmila, vinita , savitri... never mind if they live in shanties, or jhuggis, they were invited to a farewell tea by friend and colleague Mylene, with whom they have worked...
there is fish and rice…
i had a most moving experience as i watched a scene enacted by twobeings as different as night and day..one is a little 3 year old indian slum kid and the other a 50 year oldupmarket frenchman ..but they are tied by an invisible thread called love.so when xavier came...
it’s a kind of magic..
One dream one soul one prize one goalOne golden glance of what should beIt’s a kind of magicOne shaft of light that shows the wayNo mortal man can win this dayIt’s a kind of magicThe bell that rings inside your mindIs challenging the doors of timewrote roger taylor...
when today is over…
This is nanhe, nanhe means small or tiny.. he came to us a year ago, could not walk, was incontinent, and barely spoke... we put in with the creche children were he spent time on a chair looking at others ..A few weeks back, we decided to 'promote' him to the special...
‘You’ve got to find what you love,’
stay hungry, stay foolishAgain, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dotswill somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever....
faith, courage, instinct and the magic of project why
Piya, Sudha, Asha, Misha,Paul, Ronnie, Greg, Sandra, Melanie, Jennifer, Ritu, Sameer, Rohit, Rahul, Ben, Eric, Dr Cohen, Dr Rawat, College of Du Page, Nazeer, Himanshu and the list goes on.... are friends we did not know we had, but the magic of project why touched...
pappu pass ho gay(i)
when i asked some kids what made them laugh most, they all refereed to the famous chocolate ad where big B leaps of joy at 'pappu' passing his XIIth..well yesterday when rani brought her class X result, my joy was not for the camera, it was genuine .. and that for...
of pigs.. garbage dumps … and new beginnings
look at the picture.. this is a project why classroom..many of you may have conjured a 'glam' picture of project why.. yet this how we began in giri nagar five years ago, and this is what our new class room in okhla phase I, next to the railway tracks looks like...we...
the long way home
funding is the one constant source of anguish to anyone engaged in work like ours.. there are many sources but we decided to take the long way home..this is primarily because our commitment to empowerment only makes sense if its has a duration in time and remains...
main hoon na!
main hoon na! or here I am is what each tiny project why tot proudly says every morning at roll call!these three little words are overflowing with meaning... they are not simply an affirmation or act of presence, they hold all their still unformulated dreams.. dreams...
women of substance
meet sophiya and pushpa.. one is a tribal from ranchi the other a dalit..sophiya and pushpa run our okhla primary extension programme..it was about a year ago that we decided to start this centre, and these two ladies were the chosen ones to go and set it up from...
i’m explaining a few things
you are going to ask what is it that makes project why different.. so to borrow one of neruda's poem titles i will say: i'm explaining a few thingslook at the picture, a simple one of a teacher and a handful of children...now listen:the teacher is a gadiya lohar, the...