Project KHEL

Society for Development Activities

About us

Akshai Abraham founded Project KHEL in 2012 with a firm belief that characters of children really do get made in the maidaan (playground). Project KHEL harnesses the power of play and interactive activities, to create impact in the spaces of Gender, Pluralism and Self.

Vision
To be thought leaders in the alternative education space.

Mission
Reimagining education, by leveraging the ‘power of play’and principles of ‘safe spaces’ and ‘gender sensitivity’ for the holistic development of children, to create secure adults (for a better tomorrow).

At Project KHEL we strive to:
• -Create a culture of ownership and belonging, where everyone is their own boss.
• -Remain humble and display empathy towards all – our colleagues, children and partners
- Act with integrity especially when doing so requires an act of courage
• -Be solution-oriented, delivering our very best for our children and doing what it takes
- Be restless towards our ever-evolving goals, pushing the limits of what we can do with the resources available to us
- Serve each of our children as individuals and be child-centric in our approach towards everything we do

Approach
- Engage: We engage with children through games and activities to draw their interest
- Do:We believe in experiential learning through play and use activities to simulate real life experiences
- Reflect: After every activity, we facilitate a reflective discussion with the children about their learning and help understand how their thoughts and opinions could contribute to their lives and the larger society, encouraging them to think and speak critically
- Transform: We believe that the takeaways (learning) from these discussions will lead to transformative changes in behaviour; we hope to transform the society for the better, one child at a time.

Programmes:
- Made in Maidaan: A play and outdoor activities based intervention to deliver 21st century Life Skills to underprivileged children to transform them into gender sensitive citizens who prompt change in their communities, and to widen the scope of their opportunities in the future.
- Ultimate Frisbee: The only sports coaching programme we run for underprivileged children, to create club teams to use the sport of Ultimate as a development tool. The focus is on teaching conflict management, negotiation and problem-solving skills, alongside team-work and communications skills and most importantly encourage self discipline.
- RED SPOT: Our Red Spot programme goes beyond providing information on Menstrual Health Management, aiming to empower adolescent girls by helping them revalue menstruation as a natural biological phenomenon thereby increasing their self-worth leading them to informed decision making.
- Ab BAS!: ab BAS is a workshop based programme which adopts a preventive approach towards the issue of Child Sexual Abuse(CSA) by empowering children with the knowledge and attitude to protect themselves from abuse.
- TEEN TALKS: Teen Talks is our unique discussion forum which provide teenagers to raise questions and share experiences related to issues which concern them ranging from body image, responsible social media usage, behaviour with the opposites sex, sex and sexuality, handling relationships and academic pressure, consent, self-pleasure and so on.

Akshai Abraham is the Founder of Project KHEL.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff in the field of our work: Sport for Development, SRHR.