Project Why’s beauty salon
In January of this year, we opened a beauty skills centre for the women of the community. This is to teach the ladies new skills and make them more independent. In this centre, we have employed the mother of one of our ex students. In the first 6 months, the ladies...
Deepawali spirit
At all our Project WHY centres, the children are happily getting ready to welcome the festival by making decorations and painting diyas for their classrooms. Every year, all our children make it a very serious activity in class. They also have fun and laughs and get a...
You reap what you sow
India’s ancient system of education and the New Education Policy talks about Panchkosha, the five dimensions of a child’s development. Education which fosters holistic development and goes beyond academics is what builds WHOLE child. At project WHY we create a...
I want to be….
Asked them what they want to be and pat come he answers: a teacher, a police officer, an engineer, a bank manager, an IAS officer and even an artist! So many dreams tucked away safely in the little heads of our children. I always urged them to dream big, to dream of...
Once you learn to read you will be forever free
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” wrote Frederick Douglass. At Project Why we strive to instill the love of reading in all our students. That is why we have a library period where children can go look at books, feel them, browse hem and be motivated...
Welcome back Xavier Sir
Our dearest friend and President of Enfances Indiennes is back for a visit. Today he spent quality tie with our special needs children. Shalini and Munna were thrilled to see their very special friend. Xavier will be with us for a week and will spend time at all our...
Very very special diyas
It is Diwali time and once again our very special souls created some beautiful divas for sale. Last week a sale was organised at CSKM school and Azure Hospitality. In spite of the terrible pollution and primary schools being closed, We had quite a crowd at the CSKM...
Way to go!
The class X and XII results were declared this week. ALL our students from all our centres have passed with respectable marks. We are so proud of them. We wish class XII all the best in their future endeavours.
Budding poets of Project Why
Dipika Mukherjee, a well known writer from Chicago was in India recently. She was kind enough to find the time and run a small poetry workshop for the children of our Giri Nagar centre. The children were a little perplexed at first but Dipika soon broke the ice by...
Sports at the Yamuna centre
The Yamuna centre children had their very first sports 'day' with different and fun games. They really had great fun as this was something new for them. We hope that we can do more sports activities and maybe even organize a real Sports Day event in the center.