CRY Volunteers North

As a part of their annual festival, CRY put up a stall at the Institute of Home Economics. The stall was visited by 50 inquisitive students who interacted with the volunteers. The volunteers provided some insights into the purpose, motives and workings  of CRY and the current volunteering opportunities. They also shed some light on child rights and their importance. The volunteers team had also set up some games which garnered quite a bit of interest.

(an excerpt from thealternative.in ) In urban slums like NS Palya, anganwadis are often a pale imitation of what they were envisioned to be under the Integrated Child Development System (ICDS), mooted by the Indian government in 1976. Under ICDS, anganwadis were expected to function as one-stop crèche and nutrition centres for children from the age of zero to six, and for expectant mothers. Every anganwadi is run by an anganwadi teacher and a helper. They are expected to give children basic pre-school education, provide them one nutritious meal in a day, and ensure the children receive vaccines and mineral supplements on schedule. Anganwadis were set up to be the first defence in detecting and correcting malnourishment in children. Read More