What is Project Why?

Project Why is a New Dehli (India) based non-profit organisation engaged in education support and life skill enhancement of slum children and their families. We opened our first education center in 2000 and now, thanks to the generous support of friends and well wishers, have expanded our activities.

Our programmes include:

• Education Centers, teaching more than 800 childen in 7 locations throughout New Delhi.
  
• Children with special needs, a day care centre for 20 children and young adults with disabilities
• Heart Fix Hotel, sponsoring heart surgeries for those most in need.
• Women Center, nurturing and supporting disadvantaged local women.
• Planet Why, our newest and most ambitious project yet, that we believe will give our work the sustainability we seek .
• Cyber Why a place where all can make 'friends" with computers! .

Project Why - where you see with your heart!

The Project Why story

Project WHY was conceived to answer a series of queries:

• Why do children from underprivileged backgrounds perform poorly?
• What could be done to enhance their performance?
• What skills should be taught to them to better their employment options?
• How could this be achieved in a replicable community driven model?

Project WHY set out to create a model whereby quality education support in underprivileged areas, could be spearheaded by parents even if they were illiterate. The idea was to empower the community to pool its resources and run a sound support programme for its children.

Project WHY started with 40 children and spoken English classes.

Today it reaches out to over 700 children and runs two early education programmes, one prep class, four primary and one secondary after school support programmes, a day care and life skills programme for 20 children with disabilities as well as a computer centre.

2009 heralds our 9th year in existence. The past eight years have been extremely rewarding as we were able to meet many of the goals we set for ourselves at the start of this incredible journey: our educational support programme has been extremely successful and the day-to-day running of our various centre is now handled efficiently and quasi independently.

Our women centre that began barely a year ago is now a thriving centre with over 300 children and 60 women and long waiting lists!

One is so overwhelmed by all that has been achieved that one is simply busy being grateful.

Yet we know that the journey is far from over as project why remains fragile and needs to be secured and hence much remains to be done as dreams wait to be made a reality.