Our Mission
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 500 children and runs two early education programmes, one prep class, four primary and one secondary after school support progarmmes, a day care and life skills programme for 20 children with disabilities as well as a computer centre.
Empower
But the true success of Project Why lies in its ability to empower the community to take on their responsibilities and show them how to find solutions within the existing context. We realised very early that invisible barriers existed – be they caste or creed – and our first venture was to break those barriers and make planet why a true reflection of an ideal India. It is for us a mater of pride to see that communities that barely interacted slowly learnt to discover each other and respect one another. In our quest to make citizenIndia a reality a number of awareness initiatives were launched as a first step towards empowerment.
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