ANOU’S BLOG

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...

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...

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...

 Why is Project Why even necessary?Sadly, this is a question we often get. There are many reasons, but the main reason is to provide shadow education to underprivileged children, an education that has become sine-qua-non to success in India.Shadow education is a...

This is Project Why's special class as it is today. And here is how it looked in earlier times.To be disabled in India is a misfortune but to be disabled and poor in India is a tragedy. If you are a girl it is further compounded. So, when a lady came with four special...

(All pictures in this post were taken by project why children during a workshop on Respect under the section Respect for Water!)Did you know that 5,000 children die everyday from water related diseases?There is an odd phenomenon at Project Why where children, often...

Someone said: "a picture is worth a thousand words, but a memory is priceless.You don’t just take a picture with a camera, you take it with your heart".The story of the Project Why Okhla Centre is the story of two women: Sophiya and Pushpa. Sophiya and Pushpa must...

Spare Grace, Lemongrace, Red Cabies  and Badycon were the words proudly displayed by the local vegetable shop now catering to the growing expat clientele. To the uninitiated this translates as asparagus, lemongrass, red cabbage and baby corn!India is a land with...

Sometimes you do not have to look far to find things to celebrate. You simply have to look with your heart. I sometimes kick myself for not taking time to simply stop and savour things around me, more so because I'm blessed to have Project Why which is a constant...

Child labour is cheap. A child is submissive, and can be made to work under poorly lit and poorly ventilated spaces.A child can be used for stitching, embroidering, weaving rugs and carpets, making matchsticks and firecrackers, and rolling beedis in backbreaking...

There is so much to celebrate at Project Why each and every day, but this week was a very special celebration: Utpal's 14th! To the uninitiated it would have looked like any birthday with cakes and candles and singing and cheering. However, Utpal is a very special...

The project Why WomenProject Why is primarily a children's organization yet right from the beginning, we instinctively reached out to women, the true game changers. No wonder then that it was a woman who helped me seed Project Why.Mataji, the formidable local healer...