CRY Volunteers North

This event, is about bringing music lovers in Delhi together for a two day event when they can enjoy the music that they love and at the same time can do something to ensure lasting change for underprivileged children in India. This event will bring together rock groups from across the country and part proceeds from the sale of tickets will be given to CRY. This event will also see band members from multiple bands come together to create an “anthem for children”. Children from Music Basti will be sharing the stage along with these musicians to perform this anthem as a grand finale to this two day show. Date: 7th & 8th December, 2013 Venue: Zorba (next to the Sultanpur Metro Station) Time: 12 noon – 8 pm on both days.

Dear Volunteer, The power of a vote - your vote can change the lives of millions for the better. Soon, our country will go to the polls. Shockingly, a whopping one-third of India’s citizens will not have a say in determining who forms our next government. Their basic rights are violated every single day. They have no economic power, no vote and therefore no voice. They are  India’s children , and they need us - we who have both a voice and a vote - to speak up for them. Today, 66 years after independence, the situation of the Indian child is a grim one: ·           Every second child in India is malnourished ·           11.8% of children in India are engaged in some form of child labour ·           National Dropout Rate at the Elementary Level is over 40% ·           Nearly 45% of girls get married before the age of eighteen years. This election, CRY - Child Rights and You, as an independent non-government organisation working in the area of child rights for over 33 ye

On 27 th October 2013, CRY volunteers organised a Diya Painting Event at a government school in Sector-63, Noida. The event involved students of class 4 and class 5 and was focused on honing the creativity in children while having fun in painting Diyas. Divyanshu, a CRY volunteer who participated in the event, quoted “I had never thought before that Diya Painting can be so engaging, fun filled and fulfilling teamwork”. Children as well as volunteers enjoyed the event a lot and embarked the festive celebration of Diwali. For more pictures of this event click here .

19th October 2013, CRY Noida volunteers organized a whole day event in a government school in Sector-12, Noida. The event was sponsored completely by Oracle Volunteers, the CSR wing of Oracle Corporation. Approximately 600 students distributed across class 1 to class 8 were catered to by 28 volunteers. Some of the major activities during the event were: Class 7 and class 8 students were gifted Anglo-Hindi dictionary and taught how to find meanings and use phonetics. Class 5 and class 6 students were gifted Hindi to English translation book and taught some basic lessons of the translation. Class 3 and class 4 students were gifted Activity Book containing lots of puzzles and were taught how to apply logic and reasoning to solve those puzzles. Class 1 and class 2 students were gifted Drawing Book and crayons to make them learn about colors and objects, while having fun of coloring. Class 7 and class 8 students were taught some tricks of Vedic Math