ANOU’S BLOG
It is time we look at our education policy #GivingTuesday #India
The new education policy is in the anvil. The recommendations of the committee set up to look into the issue are ready. Two of the recommendations are close to our hearts. The first is to reinstate detention beyond class V and the other to set up a cadre akin to the...
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime #GivingTuesday #India
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. Scars heal but the pain never goes away. And yet child abuse is on the rise. Recent studies show that there has been a 50% rise in the crime against children rate. Increased urbanisation seems to be a contributing...
To the manor born
Our dearest friend Kabir of Azure Hospitality conjured another miracle. This time an invitation to a 'posh' lunch at the new Mamagoto in Connaught Place. For many of us lunch at a restaurant is a mundane affair. This is another story. Most of the invitees had never...
They came, the saw, they cared #ThrowbackThursday #India
Today we would like to walk down memory lane and talk of all the visitors we have had over the years. In most cases they return more than once. That is the magic of Project Why: once you walk in you leave a little bit of yourself and take a little bit of us.We have...
The Numbers Perspective #GivingTuesday #India
Secondary Class at Khader The Numbers Perspective! Sounds like a title of a Robert Ludlum thriller doesn't it? Come to think of it is is a thriller in its own right: the numbers referred to are the (ill)famed marks that a student secures in her or his class XII...
The dentist comes calling #ProjectWhy #India
The dentist comes calling It was dental checkup time for children from the special section, the creche and the primary section. This was the first dental check up at Project Why and was made possible thanks to our friend Neena Gulabani from the Anubhav Learning...
From Germany with Love #ThrowbackThursday # India
Project Why's relationship with Germany began way back in 2007 when Hans Emde, a rather forbidding person with a heart of gold, visited Project Why and decided to set up Project Why Deutschland e v in Köln. From that moment the doors flew open and Project Why's...
He who opens a school door, closes a prison #GivingTuesday #India
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.Victor HugoThe little beds in this picture take us back to a childhood fairy tale where a little girl 'dared' to sleep on a bed only to be chased away by a family of bears. The Project Why fairy tale is a little...
Sadafulee so that Project Why children bloom
Her name is Kashmira. She lives in the US and though she has never visited Project Why in person, she had been one of its staunchest supporters. She has walked into Project Why's heart through a screen! Over the years she has supported our work financially, but more...
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much #ThrowbackThursday
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” Helen Keller How true these words are and Project Why is a proof of this. It was in very early days that Anou decided to source 100% of her team from within the community. The decision was instinctive....
BEIRUT CALLING #GivingTuesday #India
It has been International Month at Project Why. First we had visitors from France, then from Japan and now hold your breath… from Lebanon! A group of twenty young girls from the American Community School: Beirut came to visit Project Why shepherded by our...
One year of the Yamuna centre #ThrowbackThursday
The Project Why Yamuna Centre is one year old! A simple look at the smiling faces in the picture is ample proof of the fact that we got it right. Only a little over a year ago Project Why came to know about the existence of the "Yamuna Kids,” a bunch of happy...