Make a Sustainable Place to Play in the City

There were many good stories this year, but as 2019 comes to a close ‘Anywhere you want to go’ lingers before the launch of a new decade. 

It’s a story of a young woman, Asha, who cycles everywhere, is determined to be a mechanic, challenging norms for girls in an all-boy world, until one day that stops. A bus. A moment. A mistake. Everything changes.

Asha and Ayesha are twins. While Asha’s life changes, Ayesha excels in school, university and everything else. Yet it’s never enough. She haunted by not being able to transform Asha’s life back to way it was and is in search of way, a window, an idea of how she could possibly make the world of adventurers accessible to her twin sister.

Meanwhile, Atlanta, Asha and Ayesha’s Mum is a clean energy designer and inventor, she adapts solar installations to light football pitches, she lights their small mountain village with twinkling night lights and works with an all woman team of architects, designers and inventors who while they are transforming the village, moonlighting, they also make a new super accessible clean energy powered wheelchair for Asha.

This story, and 29 more are part of the 30 new graphic novel adventures that will flow into 1,000 Government Secondary Schools in Bihar, India. For Grade 10-12, with An Adventurer’s Guide to Becoming an Entrepreneur in India welcoming adventurer’s in Grade 9, Grade 10 onwards gives young people a choice. They can choose the adventure story they’d like to complete, with a four day out of the classroom teamwork enterprise project. 

Get a Plan is a series of 75 page illustrated, bi-lingual graphic novel adventures that are designed to equip young people with the skills they need to transition from school to equitable work or enterprise of their choice after the age of 18. With a special focus on young women’s retention in school and transition to enterprise.

The stories are designed to enable young people to have a choice.

The stories are written, and re-written, with the goal of emboldening young people with the belief that they can design solutions for the biggest challenges their communities face and be able to go, anywhere they’d like to go. Which in many cases may mean staying home to build again where they are, for an equitable, shared, sustainable future reaching far beyond this very New Year and the limits of our imagination.