ANOU’S BLOG
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...
有難う 御座います Yoshiki San #GivingTuesday
Yoshiki San and DoraemonProject Why has a Japanese connection. It goes back to 2003 when Naoko San visited the Project why with the Japanese Volunteer Group. A connection was made, one that lasts till date.Thus began a relationship with ladies from the...
Things never get back to the day they were #ThrowbackThursday
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were wrote Dwight D. Eisenhower.One of the most difficult moments we have had to face at Project Why was the death of a child. But sadly children die. Over the years we have...
Project Why’s French Connection #GivingTuesday
It was French Week at Project Why. A group of members of Enfances Indiennes, visited Project Why and gave its children a French Break!Project Why's French Connection is strong and steadfast. Not surprising as its founder had deep links with France! But the real...
Into the twilight
Six years ago, I gathered the courage to write a requiem for a dream. The dream was Planet Why the guest house with a difference that would have allowed Project Why to be sustainable. In a nutshell, Planet Why was a guest house indeed, but would have also been home to...
Damyanti (w)rites for Project Why #
Project Why has taught me two values often forgotten: compassion and gratitude. If one is the art of giving, the other is that of receiving. When we talk of giving, our minds tend to veer towards money; often charity is equated to funds and undoubtedly it is a huge...
Gypsy Souls #ThrowbackThursday
If we exist then He exists; if we do not then how can He!(on the existence God)Tau Head of the Rana Pratap Lohar Camp“Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?” wrote JoAnne Kendrick. This is exactly...
Mercury Rising #GivingTuesday
waiting for waterThis picture was taken near the Project Why Okhla Centre at the time when the tanker delivers water for an entire community. This is when children dash out of class to reach the tanker in time, having already placed their buckets or cans well in...
Project Why’s Women centre # Throwback Thursday
The Project Why Women and Children Centre saw the light of day to answer yet another deafening why. It was 2006 and we had two women in a desperate state who needed help. One woman was ready to get out of rehab and needed a safe place to stay, a kind of midway...
India’s shadow education cont #GivingTuesday #India # Education
Recently some of our secondary Govindpuri children informed us that they may have to stop coming. Why?These were some of the brightest of the lot who attend government school. The reason they gave was shocking. Their school teacher had told them that unless they...
Project Why’s Neverland #ThrowbackThursday
A toddler tied up to a charpoy with a scarf: a sign of love and also one of desperation. This image was one of the first resounding WHYs Project Why encountered and we responded by creating the creche.We realised this was a daily routine: the mother would pull the...