Make a Sustainable Place to Play in the City

Racing into 2019 with a new project, Get a Plan, we began to research, write and design a new series of stories/graphic novels to enable young people to get a job or start an enterprise after the age of 18 in Bihar, India.

Get a Plan is exciting for three reasons.

First, it’s the first time we’ve had access to Grade 10 and 12, which as exam years, have been previously thought to be not part of the plan. They are now.

The other reason Get a Plan is exciting is that it links to equitable work of a young persons choice after Grade 12. We’re building a coalition of employers that will give young people a chance to get jobs or the ability to access finance to start an enterprise, making a real bridge from school to work.

And finally, the other cool piece is that the Government is giving us access to 1,000 Government Secondary Schools for the next five years that have Grade 9-12 in the building.

The key KPI? How many young people transitioned to work of their choice after five years.

2023. That’s when we’ll finally report.

This year we begin in 100 Government Secondary Schools and next year it scales to 1,000 schools and 400,000 young people a year.

If you are reading this, you probably already know how we create content but just in case, we’ve been in the field listening to young people co-designing our new epic graphic novels. Equipped with cell phones to take photos of their lives and markers to mark up the typos and circle the design they think should change in our stories, we’re listening. 

And we hope you do too. Their voices for what they want to do in the future are powerful. There’s not just hope. There’s a plan.