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Looking forward to having all CRY Volunteers participate in the hangout on Thursday 12th June at 3 PM. Hangout event URL What one needs to be a participant at the hangout: Internet and a Google account Recapping the background: 12th June is World Day Against Child Labour, a day to focus attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it. Taking this day as the hook to start the conversation on Click Rights and #OpenYourEyes, we are organizing the hangout with CRY and Youth ki Awaaz to show the reality- and extent- of child labour in India today. With 11.8% of the children in our country engaged in some kind of labour (NFHS-III), the hangout aims to urge people to #OpenYourEyes to the reality of child labour and pledge to act against it so every child goes to school not work. Format: The hangout will be designed as a panel discussion on the situation of child labour today, what decision-makers are doing against it an...

CRY Twitter Chat on why a #voteforchildrights this #elections2014 is the need of the hour Join CRY- Child Rights and You on 5th March 2014 at 3 P.M. for a LIVE Twitter chat to discover why #childrights should be one of the priority issues this upcoming election and how YOU can join a nation-wide movement to help ensure lasting change for India’s children. Date : Wednesday, 5th March 2014, 3:00 to  3:45 P. M. Who : Kreeanne Rabadi, Regional Director- CRY (West) via the @CRYIndia Twitter handle How to join? : Send in your questions/comments with #voteforchildrights to @CRYIndia Children constitute one-third of our country’s population. It is time for us to #voteforchildrights. Learn more about the CRY Vote for Child Rights campaign here . CRY - Child Rights and You  is an Indian NGO that believes in every child’s right to a childhood - to live, learn, grow and play. For over 30 years, CRY and its 200 partner NGOs have worked with parents and commu...

For complete article please refer to CRY's blog here . For article published in Kolkata Today refer here . For summary refer Summary Version-1 , Summary Version-2

This could not have come at a better time! CRY had applied to the I Volunteer BEST LEADERS IN VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT and has been shortlisted. Please vote and ask all to vote for us. Please vote ASAP as the voting phase will not be on for too long. Please ensure maximum people vote, as every vote counts and we can win only if we get maximum votes. To cast your vote visit this .

21st and 22nd Dec 2013, HT organized a Property Fair at Expocenter, Sec-62, Noida, in which almost all renowned builders of NCR showcased their current real estate projects and provided lucrative offers for instant booking. The fair was attended by many people who were mostly adults and suitable target to be made aware of the right of children to be considered in manifestos of political parties for forthcoming Lok Shabha Election 2014. Patrons were made aware of the right through EAC campaign brought to the platform by CRY Volunteers. Approximately 250 patrons supported the cause by signing pledge.

Micromax has launched a twitter campaign for Christmas, wherein for each tweet on #CANGiftHappiness it would donate Re. 1/- to CRY. Within few hours of its launch, the campaign became one of the top topics on twitter in India. Requesting all readers to tweet on this # and help CRY in its social endeavour (get friends and family also to tweet!). All that you have to do is to log into your twitter account and post tweets with this tag. The message could be just about anything – something that makes you happy, something which you want to do to make others happy, something to do with child rights – anything and everything works! You can do a search on twitter with #CANGiftHappiness to see the kind of stuff people are posting – just in case you need any idea starters. The more tweets we get in the next 6 days on this – the more funding we get! So please do start tweeting. The added incentive - you can win a Micromax phone as well, autographed by Hugh Jackman.

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...

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.

After 3 years of enactment of RTE law, CRY conducted a study across India to find out status of its implementation. Here is report for the study. Authors: Ritika Sharma , Divyanshu Singh

On occasion of Anti Child Labour Day 2012, CRY Delhi Volunteers conducted a pan-Delhi study on knowledge, attitude and practices of prospective employers of children towards child labour. 1350 respondents were surveyed evenly across 9 districts of Delhi. Results obtained through analysis of the surveys were striking and helped CRY volunteers organize many awareness campaigns, focused on specific issues, in the zones that got highlighted as less aware on those issues. Thus volunteers' awareness campaigns got more focussed in terms of both targeted regions and targeted issues.  Complete report of the study is available for reference  here . Authors: Riyana Lama , Divyanshu Singh

In the wake of recent unfortunate incident of rape of 5 yrs old girl child in Delhi, CRY is striving to track and fix the issues related to protection of girl child, particularly the issue of missing children. To express their concern on the issues of missing children and protection of girl child, CRY Delhi Volunteers conducted an awareness campaign at Select Citywalk Mall, Saket, on 28th April 2013. The campaign comprised of two performances of flash mob, one at 4:30 pm and another at 5:15 pm. The novel medium of flash mob helped volunteers reach out to almost all patrons of mall who witnessed the event. Audience's support for the cause and appreciation for the campaign could be easily sensed from following: In both the performances audience joined the volunteers performing flash mob. Mall's patrons gathered densely around the atrium (the MAC Atrium), across the three floors of the mall, to watch the event. Both the performances ended with huge round of applause by audi...

...on occasion of 3rd anniversary of RTE implementation  An RTE meet was organized by the All India Parents Association (AIPA) and Social Jurist on 31st March 2013, the eve of the RTE anniversary, at the Gandhi Peace Foundation. The main panel consisted of eminent advocates and philanthropists of education industry - O.P. Sharma, I.S. Gambhir and Ashok Argawal. Many remarkable points on government schools and private schools (both low income and high income) were discussed through speeches and interactive sessions. Through the interactive session, many parents, activists and students of government schools voiced their experiences and concerns. The most common of those concerns included commercialization of education, poor quality of education, exploitation of school fees, abuse of children in school, corporal punishment and discrimination of minority group children. CRY Delhi volunteers raised the security issue of schools and the issue of discrimination faced b...