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Padmashree award winner Raghu Rai, one of the most recognized name in the world of photography, held an interactive photo talk – ‘Reels of Change’ for the CRY Click Rights Campaign on August 8th, 2013. Focused on the power of photography to spur people into action, the talk was well-attended and received good participation! Coverage by "The Statesman" Coverage by "Millennium Post"

The Click Rights corner set up by the CRY volunteers at IIT Delhi received encouraging response. Volunteers explained to the students about the campaign. Close to 500 students turned up. Most of them sported Click Rights tattoos on their arms, wore the Click Rights badges and ensured to promote the campaign.  You too can be a part of the Click Rights campaigns too; for details visit www.cry.org/focusonthechild

CRY Delhi Volunteers promoted Click Rights 2013 at Dilli Haat on 18th Aug 2013. The enthusiasm of Dilli Haat patrons in supporting the campaign and that of CRY Delhi Volunteers in explaining them the campaign was beyond imagination.

After the workshop discussed about in last blog-post, the participants of the workshop performed an impressive and effective street play at Begumpur community on the issue of child labour.   "The response from the audience made us feel we did justice to our play.  People, especially youth, children and women were present in large number and they also passed on the message of importance of education and the dark side of child labour which was the theme and the intention of the play. We believe that this effort would help us realise the dream of - THE ONLY WORK A CHILD SHOULD DO IS HOMEWORK" - Gaurav Agarwalla (Event Coordinator) Refer this link for more photos of the event.

In June and July 2013, Hindustan Times collaborated with CRY, under HT's "You Read, They Learn" initiative, to enrol out of school children in NCR to school. The campaign started with HT publishing ads to invite its readers to volunteer for the campaign. Approximately 400 readers turned up for the cause after seeing the ads. Then CRY Delhi Volunteers filed RTIs and conducted field surveys to figure out the regions in NCR having significant number of out of school children. Then the event kicked off with 2 orientation sessions on 23rd June 2013 and 29th June 2013. Famous cricketer, Gautam Gambhir, came up to motivate HT and CRY volunteers during the former session. Then HT volunteers, under guidance of CRY volunteers, visited previously identified communities in 9 zones of NCR and collected details of out of school children. Finally, HT volunteers, under guidance of CRY volunteers, visited the communities again to enrol children to nearest

The CRY Club at IHE, Department of Communication and Extension, held a long day kiosk at the college on 1st Aug 2013 to promote Click Rights by asking people to upload more and more relevant photographs in order to make the campaign successful. Thus the CRY club reached out to over 1000 students who are first time voters. Refer this link for more photos of the event.