
GIRI NAGAR
It all began with Manu, a physically and mentally challenged boy, and the need to provide him a dignified way of living. To give Manu a home, Project WHY had to be accepted by the community he lived in and the only way to do so was accede to its demands: teach English to their children. The English classes began in Giri Nagar in 2000 with only a hand full of children. Manu was taken care alongside. Giri Nagar became Project WHY’s testing ground for all its programmes: primary and secondary and also for its day care for children with special needs.
Today it runs an after school outreach for primary and secondary students.
PRIMARY PROJECT
NUMBER OF CHILDREN: 61
boys 27 ; girls 34
SECONDARY PROJECT

NUMBER OF CHILDREN: 73
boys 45 ; girls 28
Writing about this class is akin to writing the project why story. Our Senior Secondary Project began on the roadside in the dead of the winter 2001 to answer yet another deafening why. A bunch of class X students from our Spoken English class had been beaten in school. This was inadmissible to us and a visit to the school brought to light the contempt with which children from poorer homes were held in. The Principal sneered at them, calling them gutter snipes that would never be able to pass their Boards. The body language of the children compelled us to throw a challenge stating that they would ALL pass! They all did and there was no looking back!