primary outreach

High drop out rates in municipal and government schools, and extremely poor performance of children prompted us to start our after school education support programme.
Our main objective is to enhance school performance, contain drop out rates and ensure access to secondary school.
Children coming from urban slums are unable to cope with their studies.
This is often due to poor teaching conditions within the school, and lack of help from home
Moreover children have no place to study, no access to books or tutors.
The primary programme is by far the most important one as it is in these classes that most children drop out.

Project Why runs four primary programmes

sanjay colony

The sanjay Colony primary extension was opened replaced our giri nagar programme. It can be considered as our first step 2 project as Giri nagar was closed because it was felt that parents had finally understood the role they had to play in the education of their children. Many were now sending their wards to private tuitions. Moreover the opening of two more NGOs made us redundant.
We had to look for greener pastures or in our case to areas where children were in need of help and parents needed to be motivated.
Sanjay Colony began in early July and within a month we had more than 80 students! Many of them are way below the requred level of studies. for more click here

lohar basti

In a land where education is a child's constitutional right, there are several children who are marginalised.
One such group in India's capital city is that of the Gadiya Lokar
gadiya Lohars are part of a nomadic tribe which settled on the roads of the delhi and earns a living as iron smiths.
Their proud demenaour and intelligence is noteworthy.
We run a primary school programme for their children and are doing all that is possible to mainstream them. However their genetic past and social mores,often stand in the way.
for more click here The lohar basti was raised to the ground on 22 September 2007 to make way for the metro bringing to a close one of the chapters of project why. The off 30 families wil now have to seek shelter in different places. We wil miss these spirited people!

okhla pahse I

This is by far our flagship project as it isone that was set up in toto by two of our 'empowered' teachers
meet these women of substance
and share some of their woes here
But the real reason for which this centre is close to our heart is because this part of okhla does not have any primary school in the vicinity and hence most of the children do not go to school at all.
being a factory area, it has a substantial number of bad elements and illegal trafficking and the children are often used to perpetrate petty crime.
Our presence is of course not liked as we are pushing back children into school.
However our staying has now been recognised and is even appreciated by some.
for more click here

nehru nagar

The Nehru Nagar extension camp was started a year back. Situated in the heart of the Govindpuri slums it reaches out to over 60 children. for more click here