ANNUAL REPORT (2009-2010)
SRI RAM GOBURDHUN CHARITABLE TRUST
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Director's Message
This year has been a rather uneventful one. As my message, I would like to share a blog I wrote recently. I think it says all:
Every year at about this time I sit down to write the annual report of the project. The report begins with a Directors' message, and till date I have had no problems whatsoever in writing it. There was always something to write about: a special occurrence, a challenge, a success story, a knotty issue well-solved etc. As I sat down to write these messages, nine of them till now, I always felt elated and on top of the world. This time however was different.
As I settled down to begin writing the 2009-2010 report, I drew a blank. I could not find the one small spark that would guide me through. I sat for a long time racking my brain but to no avail. I must admit I got a little worried: was age catching up, was I losing my memory? I decided to seek help and asked the girls, the one who run the project, to give me a brief on last year's happenings. They came back to me a couple of days later and told me quite sheepishly that they too had drawn a blank. The year just seemed to have passed uneventfully and placidly, almost in limbo. I was stunned. Was this 'good' or 'bad' news?
I sat a long time pondering. This was our tenth year on the field and the fact that we had nothing out of the ordinary to write about was cause of worry. Did it mean that we had perfected the model to the point where there was nothing more to add and it could thus run on auto pilot - not a happy thought - or was it that we had sunk into a comfort zone that had made us all forget the spirit of project why itself? I would veer towards the later and thus it was time for some serious soul searching.
Before I carry on I would like to set minds at rest. The
year gone by was by all parameters a successful one. All programmes were on
course and met their targets. Even the normally challenging issue of funding
was well in hand. There must have been some minor irritants, but these were too
small to leave an imprint. Then why was I feeling disturbed? What this not what
one had wanted: to have pwhy run effortlessly?
I spend a long time wondering why I was feeling troubled.
My mind wandered back to early times, when we had just begun, the day I had
first set eyes on Manu and the one when I had come across the first child who
could barely recognise alphabets though she was studying in class IV. And how
can I forget the afternoon when a heartless secondary school principal sneered
at a bunch of young boys calling them guttersnipes. I still remember the frozen
January morning when a lady walked into our tiny office dragging four
challenged children and telling us that they had nowhere to go, or the
scorching day when a man hobbling on a stick walked in seeking help to fix his
son's broken heart. And the warm morn when I was told that a child had died of
burns. And all this in the span of a short year! These were the deafening whys
we had to address with confidence and compassion, the two Cs that defined the
spirit of pwhy. We answered each one with success, some taking longer than
others and that is how project why grew one challenge at a time. Manu was
tended to till the day not so long ago when he moved into a proper home. A
primary and secondary after school support was created, a day care for the
challenged was set up and our heartfix hotel got its first inmate and the
scalded boy is now prancing around in a boarding school!
The next years were spent fine tuning the show. Path
breaking decisions were taken like the one to only employ people from within
the community or the one to use whatever space we could access be it a pig
park, a roadside or a reclaimed garbage dump! The project grew and from 40 we
became 400 and then 800! There was no stopping us. The results were for all to
see: children passed from one class to the other. We had our first batch of
class X and then class XII and they too did us proud. We were on a constant
high. In hindsight I wonder if we missed something along the way.
I am not beating myself. I guess any project or programme
does go through a growth process. It is inevitable. But I also feel that unless
it is constantly infused with something new, it runs the risk of declining. Is
this what is happening. Am I seeing the first signs of weakening? I hope not.
But I know it is time to soul search with honesty. I have talked of the
achievements but what about the failures or if not failures what about the
downside, the challenges not met. The biggest one I guess has been our
inability to achieve any success in our sustainability efforts, be it the small
early inroads like candles, chocolates, soaps et al or the now seemingly half
hearted attempts at fund raising like the one rupee a day programme or the
failed raffl
es? Or even the apparently win-win option like planet why that
today awaits expert validation. The reality is that all our efforts to stand on
our own feet have not seen any success whatsoever. Project why has survived
thanks to donations of people the world over who believed in our dreams of yore
years. And whereas these dreams were once worth defending with zeal and
passion, they seem a little jaded today. And the one who till date had sold
these dreams effortlessly finds it difficult to repackage them.
I wonder what is missing. Have we really gone in limbo?
If I were to look at pwhy today without knowledge of the
past, I would just see an after school education programme like so many others
and that is no great achievement, even if our children pass their exams with
almost obsessive regularity. True there are some add-ons like the special
children, the foster home etc. But that is it. There is no movement forward, no
challenge waiting to be addressed. I do not have to be a soothsayer to say that
come next year we will still look the same unless we break the circle and do
something. And that is what I intend to do now.
I admit that the discomfort I write about today has been
with me for some time and that is what had prompted me to launch the focus on
quality programme early this year. Project why children had to imbibe more than
just school knowledge, and we needed to stop our obsession with numbers. It has
become imperative to give them an identity of their own. But that is not
enough. What is needed is to go a step further and look beyond empowerment. It
is time to hand over ownership of the programme to the staff and the community
at large.
I have tried to do so over the years but met with stubborn
resistance from all quarters. Somehow being an NGO - a word I dislike with
passion - gave everyone the license to take things for granted. Parents felt we
had funds in abundance and thus were almost outraged at our asking a meagre
rupee a day, and most the staff found it easier to stick into comfort zones
whereby they did their work and got their monthly pack, they somehow seem to
think that fund sources are perennial. Even when one tried hard to get them to
participate in any resource gathering activity be it the one rupee programme or
selling raffle tickets, there was no enthusiasm leaving me to wonder how to
shake them out or their torpor. I did tell them that I for one was not
everlasting and that even if I were, we had to contend with something called
donor fatigue.
Yes that is what is alarming me.
The recent visit by one of our regular donors was an eye
opener. In the course of conversation candidly he admitted that it was easier
for him to market - to use his expression - individual stories. He wanted me to
'find' more possible candidates for boarding school as he felt that was
something donors 'liked'. I will not go into details here, maybe in another
post. What matters at this moment is what was left unsaid. Pwhy in its present
avatar may not be easy to market. It was strangely devoid of heart wrenching
tales. Even the loudest and most deafening why had finally found a permanent
answer: Manu had a home!
So time has come to reinvent one's self and while we wait
for the verdict on planet why - should it not be the one we want we will need
to put our thinking caps on again- we need to address the 'what after me' issue
and thereby infuse a new breath of life in pwhy, one that will allow us to
resuscitate the flat line. The way forward is to address the ownership issue
head on, notwithstanding the resistance.
I must admit that a few days back I would not know how to
do that but yesterday the sullen teacher who had refused to move to Okhla for
incomprehensible reasons came to me and informed me that he has set up a Bihar
Why in his village in a remote district in Bihar. He proudly handed me a set of
pictures showing over 40 children studying in the open. I will write a post
about this later. He wanted us to help him. My eyes became moist, my heart
swelled with pride and I saw light at the end of the dark tunnel. This was the
way to go. Staff had to be empowered to start their own nano projects. It would
take time I know but it would validate all we had stood for.
Was this a ah ha moment. Maybe. At least it was a step
forward, one that could withstand the test of time. I had found my answer. It
was time to move on
The Sri Ram Goburdhun Charitable Trust runs an
education programme by the name of Project Why. At present it is its only
programme.
Anouradha Goburdhun Bakshi
New Delhi, May 2008
OVERVIEW
The Sri Ram Goburdhun Charitable Trust using the name ‘Project Why’ is a non-governmental not-for-profit organisation engaged in education support and life-skills enhancement. The projects current focus is primarily on the slum and basti children of South Delhi.
ProjectWhy began as a spontaneous reaction to help an unfortunate few, and has grown organically over the past nine years to become an extraordinary life-line that offers many children hope instead of despondency.
ProjectWhy created both classes and
teachers from resources in the slums and they quickly became full. So more
had to be done, more money found, more teachers trained, more classrooms formed
from the rubble. Today ProjectWhy teaches 700 kids, 60 women and provides
employment to more than 50 persons from within the community
More than this, Project Why comes to the aid of the communities’ desperate cases. This is Project Why’s spirit: to do what it can where it’s most wanted no matter what the circumstance.
Project Why’s reach is limited by expenditure, which of course is limited by income. It reactively spends what it receives and there has never been the possibility of a period of consolidation and saving – there are always desperate cases here needing immediate solutions.
THE MODEL
The original model of Project Why set out to empower under-privileged and illiterate/semi-literate parents to steer the educational needs of their children by using local resources.
By making use of local talent it has been proved that quality teaching in India can be offered in the most basic of locations and situations and does not require expensive infrastructure and formal training practices.
Project Why believes in the power of the virtuous circle: by planting the seed of empowerment in the right people within the community, Project Why aims at teaching them the means to find solutions themselves. These solutions portend change, leading to more empowerment till they ultimately are in a position to take control. This is the best way to bring real and long lasting change to the lives of those who live in our slums.
2010 was
the 10th year of our existence and thus time to assess and validate
the model we had set out to follow. It was also time to evaluate and assess. We
realised that though the model had proved successful on the field as children
performed well, empowerment both of staff and community was still lax and hence
the challenge that lay ahead was to remedy to that.
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES
The year saw our education programme continue in what has by now become a well-set successful model. Our children once again performed extremely well, and our programme remained dynamic and flexible, something that we feel is in great part the reason of the success of our work and has become a well-established and tested model to replicate.However we felt that this was not sufficient particularly in the wake of the new RTE Act that stipulates that no child would fail
till class VIII.
We are all aware of the poor teaching conditions that exist in Municipal schools in Delhi, the ones our children study in, and hence the onus to educate them fell on us. We realised that we needed to focus on quality, even it if meant losing on quantity. We decided to launch our 'focus on quality' programme and were fortunate to be able to get support for this endeavour.
Our sustainability efforts however were in limbo. The world was recovering from recession and hence were not able to begin seeking funds for planet why.
THE APPROACH
The project’s current focus is primarily in the slums of South Delhi where it runs an education support program that has eight distinct modules:
For our entire education programme our approach remained the same: a judicious combination of education and life skill activities. Required course corrections were made as and when needed without disturbing the on-going work.
During this financial year we had the following education programmes:
2 early education at Govindpuri (60 children)
1 prep class (30)
4 primary extensions at Sanjay Colony, Govindpuri, Okhla and Giri Nagar (300 children)
1 day care for children with special needs (22 children)
1 junior secondary at Okhla (40 children)
1 senior secondary programme (80 children)
1 computer centre
1 Library cum cine club
Women Centre
1 primary + junior secondary at our women centre in Madanpur Khader (300)
1 stitching and tailoring calls (40 women)
1 beauty class (30 women)
1 adult education class (20)
DETAILED ACTIVITIES
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Overall Situation – infrastructure
The Special Section and the crèche are located in our own premises
Our Gali no 1 creche changed location to another rented facility in Gali no 3 Govindpuri (rented)
Our prep class functions from a room across our main centre (rented)
Our Okhla (no rent as in reclaimed garbage dump), Nehru Camp and Sanjay Colony primary (rented premises) centres remained unchanged
Two new junior secondary centres were opened at the women centre in Madanpur Khader (rented premise) and Okhla (no rent)
The Senior Secondary section remained in Giri Nagar, as did the computer centre (rented premise)
The Women Centre is located in Madanpur Khader (rented premise)
Our foster care was located in rented space across our main centre (rented)
Our library cum cine club is located in our old jhuggi now renovated
Overall situation -staff
Our staff strength is around 45. We recruited an English teacher for the women centre and one of our alumni joined Okhla as a secondary teacher.
Overall situation - content
As usual most of the time was spent on finishing curriculum. However the elimination of examinations and the new grading system, and the new rule whereby no child can be failed till class VIII has led us to institute a non-formal in house assessment schedule.
It was also felt that we should move from quantity to quality and thus we launched or 'focus on quality' programme in the primary sections of Okhla and the Women centre. Children are now given an added hour of class where they learn spoken English. We also stress on environment issues and civic knowledge.
Mainstreaming children
This year we were successful in getting over 100 children admitted to regular schools. This is in keeping with the main objective of our organisation. In spite of existing Government policies claiming easy access to primary schools, the reality is often very different. Parents often become weary of the attitude and complex administrative formalities and give up. It has been our constant effort to convince parents on the necessity of educating their children and though its is a difficult battle we believe that even one family convinced is a step in the right direction.
Curriculum Support
Driven by the dual objective of containing and arresting school drop out rates and enhancing performance, our main stress was once more on our curriculum support programme. As in the past, the programme was flexible and adapted to the specific needs of the students.
However with the new 'no failing' policy of the education system announced late this year, we will need to remodel our approach to ensure that children actually learn!
Primary school intervention
This year our primary programmes ran well, and once again
all our children passed into the next class. We ran extensions in the following
places: Sanjay Colony, Nehru Nagar, Okhla, Giri Nagar and Madanpur Khader.
Okhla and the women centre were selected for our Focus on Quality Programme.
Focus on Quality Programme
We launched our focus on quality programme at Okhla and the women centre in
February 2010. The primary focus of this new programme is to concentrate on
the quality of the educational support that each of our children receive.
Previously most of our efforts have gone into trying to halt drop out rates
and ensure that children remain in school. We have been very successful at
this and in the past 9 years, no Project Why child has dropped out of school
and in fact over 20 Project why students go to college or pursue further studies
each year. Our benchmark has been numbers and we feel we have achieved tangible
success as we started reaching out to 40 children from underprivileged backgrounds
and now have approximately 800. However, in a recent evaluation of our achievements,
we have decided that the way forward is to focus on quality not just quantity.
Whilst a child can pass a class XII with marks of 33%, that kind of low mark
is in no way sufficient to apply for a job or get admission to any form of
further studies.
We therefore wanted to focus on improving the quality of the support we provide
to the Project why children. We think this is the key to ensure that they
obtain access to better opportunities both in terms of jobs and higher education.
Beneficiaries of the Programme
We have decided that initially, 150 children from classes II-V (inclusive)
from both the Women Centre and the centre at Okhla will benefit. We have purposefully
excluded class I as we consider that they are too young to receive any appreciable
benefit from this programme. In time and given sufficient resources, we hope
to roll out the programme to benefit all of our children.
Implementation of the Programme
It is proposed that children would come to Project why for three hours per
day - an increase from the current one hour thirty minutes per day. These
sessions would be broken down into the following components-
➢ one hour of support of the school curriculum
➢ one hour of English tuition with a special emphasis on the spoken language
and comprehension
➢ one hour of general knowledge. This would range from teaching them children
about the environment, story telling, science, geography etc all taught in
an interactive and fun manner.
In the global economy of today, helping the children improve their ability
to speak English guarantees them better job options when they finish their
studies. Children do learn English at school but most do not have the sort
of home environment where they are encouraged to speak it or indeed have anyone
to speak it with and are lacking in confidence.
We also want to try and make
our children better citizens and hence the general knowledge component which
is designed to enable them to acquire more rounded life skills. This part
of the programme is based on the four pillars of education as defined by UNESCO
as learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning
to be.
The benefit of the pilot programme is to build on the educational support
that Project why is already providing so that they can compete with their
more privileged counterparts and obtain the sort of exam results that enable
them to take up higher education and decent jobs. The life skills component
of the programme is aimed not only at broadening general knowledge but negating
self-limiting beliefs so that these children will have a wider impact on their
own communities not only by showing others what they can achieve but also
by becoming the agents of change themselves.
Secondary school intervention
As always our senior secondary section ran quasi independently. The reputation of the staff and the positive results has made this section popular and we even have waiting lists. We also began a junior secondary programme at our women centre on demand from the parents. We decided to close our junior secondary in Gali no 3 as most of our old students had graduated to class IX and thus moved to the senior secondary. We did not see the wisdom of getting new entrants and preferred starting a junior secondary section in Okhla where our students had graduated to class VI. As there is no tuition centre or NGO in this industrial neighbourhood we were pleasantly surprised to find students for class VII and VII also. We may even begin a class IX there soon.
Once again we had a 100% result.
Early intervention programme
Our early intervention programme has been a great success with new children replacing thos who got promoted to primary school.This section is particularly important as toddlers are still not part of the free education programme and do not get pre-school learning.The small prep class with a desk and chair format ensures that children do not feel lost when they enter class I. A small curriculum was evolved keeping in mind the requirements of class I admission interviews.
Intervention for children with special needs
Here again we have achieved great success. Our programme aimed at making these children as independent as possible is showing promising results. This year also saw a more organized approach to our vocational activities.
We laid emphasis on vocational activities such as cooking, beauty skills and stitching.
One of our hearing impaired students completed her beauty training and after a short stint at a local beauty parlour, has found employment in an upmarket parlour thanks to one of our supporters.
A speech therapist and an occupational therapist visit our centre regularly.
Two occupational therapists from France visited our project and taught the staff new activities.
We are providing a classroom and classes for 15 school-going hearing impaired students.
Our residential p rogramme for 3 young adults entered its second year and is a great success.
Manu is slowly recovering from his long illness though he is still not his old spirited self.
Sadly we lost two of our very special kids Nanhe and Saheeda.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Women related activities:
Our women and children centre completed its first year on October 15th 2008.
It recorded a staggering growth as it now reaches out to over 300 children and 70 women. This centre has a dual purpose.
Its residential programme is based on a simple idea: find your feet and then your wings. It is open to women who have suffered major problems that has marginalised them (substance abuse, domestic violence, social abuse ) and offers them a refuge where they can heal and acquire skills to make them economically autonomous. The centre offers temporary and permanent shelter options.
This year however we did not have any long term resident and envisage not having any till we build our own centre as the space we have is not really adequate. However the centre is opened to short term stays as and when needed
Activities were also launched for local women: beauty skills, tailoring, adult literacy and English conversation.
Weekly women meetings are held and address a wide range of issues: gender equality, girl child, saving, insurance, health, hygiene etc
We launched a small computer centre in August 2009. This is very popular and we have long waiting lists.
Our focus on quality programme began in February 2010 with a full time English
teacher.
The foster care children are now in boarding school and doing exceedingly well! The come to us for part of their holidays, to complete their homework and spend the rest of their holidays with their families.
The three young adults with disabilities continue living in our residential programme that has now shifted to a smaller location. They are looked after by a housemother and a special educator and live as a small happy family.
Anjali and Champa have assigned household duties and are slowly learning to be independent. Manu is still not fully recovered from his terrible illness and needs special care.
Library and cine club
Our library and cine club are doing well.
The library has now around 100 outside members.
We have regular weekly viewing sessions for our different centres at the cine club.
Life skills and problem solving
Life skills are according to us an intrinsic part of any self respecting education intervention programme. This is why they form an intrinsic part of our 'focus on quality' programme.
We now teach civics as a subject, where the emphasis is on defining duties and the role of the citizen.
Issues like water, environment and right to information are touched upon at all levels as it is felt that without such awareness education is incomplete.
A say no to plastic campaign was launched at the women centre and is now running quite successfully.
Cyber WHY
Our computer programme ran smoothly. Internet and hardware classes continued with success.
This year two new smaller centres was launched at the women centre and Okhla centre.
Cyber Why is opened to all at a small fee to ensure maintenance cost. Our hope of making it an income generating activity did not however meet with the success we had hoped for.
Nutrition
This year the nutrition programme once again extended only to special cases on a need basis. Some of the children in the special section and the crèche are given regular lunches as their families do not send any.
Recreational activities
Slum children are rarely taken out. However outings are expensive
and they are only possible with the help of friends.
Thanks to friends and supporters the following outings were organised:
- Prep and Crèche to the Children’s park
- Secondary and computer students to the cinema
- Women Centre and Primary Okhla to the Science Museum
- Special section to Delhi Haat and and Lodhi Gardens
- Junior Secondary to the Red Fort and Jantar Mantar
CRISIS INTERVENTION
This past year a few the emergency situations were dealt with.
Little Meher who was a victim of third degree burns has extensive plastic surgery to repair her hand and head. The surgery took over 8 months. She is now recovered and has been admitted to boarding school.
Manu needed constant care and medical attention
Young Neha, a sixteen year old from Bihar has open-heart surgery. Sadly she passed away a few weeks later
NETWORKING
This year we had two programmes with other
organisations.
Twelve creche children went on a weekly basis to Navakriti, an early education
school run by the Aurobindo Ashram. They played in their open grounds, and
learnt song and poems. It was a wonderful experience for children who rarely
move out of their slum environment
Forty children from our Junior Secondary section went for 5 months to the
American School. They were taught by their peers. It was a rewarding experience
for all.
SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability has been a major concern of Project Why since its very inception as we are all aware of the extreme fragility of the project which is based on donations obtained almost on a day to day basis and requiring extensive efforts.
Our past sustainability efforts did not meet with any positive result. For a long time we have been trying to find the one idea that would meet all requirements of a sound sustainability programme.
PLANET WHY
The idea of Planet Why was seeded when one
came across the Ninos Hotel in Cusco: a guest house for travellers the profits
of which help sustain development activities in the area.
The paucity of safe and low budget accommodation in Delhi and our need for
a residential centre for the children we know have no future made us veer
towards this idea. Much brainstorming convinced us of its viability and the
idea was shared extensively.
Moreover the new trend worldwide of Tourism with a Heart or Volontourism made
us confident of our ability to fill a small 10 room guesthouse.
Till date we have been able to purchase a plot of land in Shyam Vihar, Najafgarh
and have also been able to repay all the loans incurred.
A plan and project report were made and circulated but due to global recession,
it did not meet with the success we would have hoped for.
On the advise of many supporters we decided to get the whole proposal professionally
vetted and we are now awaiting the outcome of this venture. Should the result
be positive we will then make a new attempt at seeking funds. However if the
idea is not found viable we will be compelled to find another avenue for our
sustainability.
The proposal is available at www.planetwhy.blogspot.com
WEB PRESENCE
The greatest achievement of the year was once again our increased web presence:
a well visited website and a blog that now has a group of die-hard supporters.
The blog enables one to share the everyday realities of our work and is thus
a great diary of the trials and tribulations of working in an urban slum.
Our blog and site are updated as regularly as possible and have been linked
by many other sites.
A photo gallery is also present so that people can get a feel of the project.
FUNDING
As Project Why is above all a project from
the heart, it grows organically as and when a new challenge has to be met
or a new 'why' answered. This of course leads to an ever-increasing budget
that needs to be met on a crisis footing.
We are extremely lucky and blessed to have supporters who understand us and
come to our rescue each and every time.
Organisations
The following organisations help us sustain our old and new activities:
Asha Seattle, Chemical Construction Internationa, Enfances Indiennes, Asha
Canada, Mediplus Reisen,Deutsch-Indische Gelsellscaft V Winsen, Lanakna Production
SARI,Stonfield, ZEUS Vermittlungsgesellschaft mbH, Omprakash Foundation, 3rd
eye solutions, Asia Bike Tours, Tourvital.de, Sabrina and Chris, American
Wife's Association, Kingston Grammar School, Delhi Network, HVS, Hands up
Holidays, Asia Bike Tours, Focus India Forum, Orient Express, Deccan Chronicle
Holdings,Enam Security, Hisca Management pvt ltd, Roy International Children
Foundation, Lensbury Club
Sabrina and Chris two friends from Germany raised funds for us with their
yearly concert in Germany
Individual donors
pau cortes,duane osowetski,raj thanki, vikram seth, anihsa banerjee, bhaskar baruah, bhavin purohit, deepika thadani, dev hojwani, kaushik vardharajan, kanishka and neelima sharma, meera seth, naveen midha, pankaj gupta, praveen jospeh, s gobend, sameer tandon, maish gaur, shamsher singh mann, jennie page, andrew mitchell, effi, jono, sophie pairaideau, luisa deziel, sonal onkar,anisa chaudhary, arpitha mareddy, andrew mitchell, michele denny, barbara underhill, stuart tuck, lorraine sammy,jennie page, andrew mitchell, anisa chaudharay, hillary moses, jill gaumer, ellen korey-lie, david elson, gail levinson, deam washichek, padha nranganathan, oreste santanera, manav thadani, deepika thadani, kaushiv vardharajan, sidharth thaker, shamsher mann, mansi bhatnagar, bhasker baruah, sameer tandon, sidharth choudhary, kanishka and neelima sharma,sujatha and raja,david elson,vijay kalivarapu, anisha banerjee, k.v. mukund acharyalu,amit mohan,meera seth, pankaj gupta, satendra bhole anasuya grenfell, anjum nath, dev bhojwani, cesare santanera, satish and sudha gupta,dean washichek,damyanti ghosh, gail levinson, jennie page,balaji muralikrishan, odette clark, margaret gruber, anu and friends, anisa chaudhary, gaurav shah, andrew mitchell,padma ranganathan,puneet mehru, srinivas ravi, kausik parthasatrhy, hermann aubie, sreenath sarikonda, cesare santanera, kilmeney fayne-saunders, kiran frey, arpitha mareddy, kishan vaja,sarah birch, chintan desai, sreeja rege barbara macgeough,latika monga, tan wei xiong, carl kackson,padma ranganathan, jennie page, phillipe van den put, anu agarwal, steve tan,namita gill, abhigyan jha, rahul batra, hillary moses, beverley heart, padma ranganathan, andrew mitchell, sreenath sarikonda, manan patel,beate mayeri,meenakshi kapoor, gareth moses, anil ravindra, gautam nath, anjan ray, k.v mukunda, mrinal jha, padmaja shastri, b.sudha, bhavin purohit, raksha baradia, dorothea, prema vishwanathan,rahul batra, saurabh anand shankar narayan, suman arora, timothy campbell, sreeja rege, cesare, roberto, mia, luisa, pradeep sethi, ajay hampapur, constance, namita gill.
GUEST and VISITORS
We had a number of visitors this year and many became friends of project WHY
and great supporters:
Hans Emde and his friends, Enfances Indiennes group, Frizzey Lights, Megha,
Naveen
VOLUNTEERS
Many volunteers came to help project WHY this year:
Kete Heller, Kyle Clark, Cecilia Lee, Nina Sethi, Harpal Singh, Marie and
Tiphanie, Ethan and Emily, Lukas Henkel, Katy Richardson, Cat Robinson, SARI
group, Lolita Cortes, Gurpreet Singh, Kishan Vaja, Elise, Catherine Lough,
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