CRY Volunteers North

From dreaming about change to finally achieving it, one such journey was explored by a Gurgaon CRY volunteer Mohit. ‘It grieves me to see kids begging on the roads and tackling addiction.’ Mohit, a young adult like us, felt the need to do something about it. And that’s how his started his journey with CRY. Mohit’s time with CRY was an adventurous one. His dream of doing something for the underprivileged came true here. He started teaching and educating at one of CRYs’ PAGs, trying to make the children independent. CRY was a platform where he loved to share his time, ideas and space, knowing that all his efforts were bringing a change. As in all new endeavors, he faced difficulties in the beginning, but that did not deter his spirit. The best thing during his tenure with CRY was his ‘initiative’. For three months, Mohit took up the responsibility to teach the kids alone. This injected self belief and confidence of teaching within him. Working with CRY groomed hi

Barely two days after completing my summer school course from King’s College London, I stepped into the Swati NGO at Tigri. From being around students scrutinizing international policies, I was suddenly surrounded with children discussing the latest episodes of daily soaps. The change was quite drastic. I contemplated over this change, trying to figure out the role education plays in one’s life and whether these supremely talented kids would ever be able to get opportunities which would do justice to their capabilities. That was last summer.             This month, a huge poster in my college caught my eye; it was of Child Rights and You. Immediately, I started reading it carefully, trying to figure out how CRY was associating with the college. It was then that I got to know that the Mock United Nations Society had been able to partner with CRY. “Interesting!”, I thought. The rather bland “Interesting!” got transformed into an “Oh my God, I don’t believe it!!” wh