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Child Rights and You commonly

abbreviated as CRY, is an Indian non-
governmental organization, which aims to
restore children's rights. The organization
was founded in 1979 by Rippan Kapoor.
 Child Rights and You

Motto Stand up for what is

right

Founded 1979

Founder Rippan Kapoor

Type Non-governmental
organization[1]
Focus Children's rights

Location Mumbai, India

Branches - Bangalore,
Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata
Method Partnership with NGOs
Key people
 Raijain Mandarica
Revenue ~Rs.36 crores
Employees 150

Website www.cry.org

CRY partners with grassroots level non-

governmental organisations to uplift
thousands of underprivileged Indian
children denied of basic rights[2] by
working across levels - from direct action,
advocacy, mobilizing public opinion to
policy change.

CRY identifies projects across the country

and funds the sincere efforts of many
individuals and groups who work at a local
and regional level and directly interact with
the children to ensure happy, healthy and
creative childhoods.

Fundamental Rights of
Children
the right to survival, to life, health,
nutrition, including nationality
the right to development of education,
care, leisure, and recreation
the right to protection from exploitation,
abuse and neglect
the right to participation in expression,
information, thought and religion
CRY works to ensure the above mentioned
rights to all categories of children, who
could be street children, children bonded in
labor, children of commercial sex workers,
physically and mentally challenged
children and children in juvenile
institutions, or even children from
privileged homes.

History
Established in 1979, CRY was started by
Late Rippan Kapur, a young airline purser
with the vision of an India where no child
would ever have to struggle for their basic
rights. With nothing but Rs. 50, Rippan and
six of his friends began what would go on
to become an organisation that has
touched the lives of millions of
underprivileged children in India over the
past few decades.

The founders of CRY chose not to be a

grassroots-level implementing
organisation working directly with
underprivileged children. Instead, they
opted to make CRY a channel or a link
between the millions of individuals who
could provide resources and the thousand
of dedicated fieldworkers who were
struggling to function for lack of them. In
2007, its media campaign showing
"smiling kids" and asking citizens to
partner instead of simply donate, was
seen as departure from stereotypical NGO
sector advertising in India.

Rippan Kapur died in 1994. In 2016-2017,

CRY reached out to 486,218 children and
their families from 2361 villages and
slums across 222 districts of 22 states in
India.[3]

On 3 December 2018, Swedish YouTuber

PewDiePie announced that he had started
a fundraiser on GoFundMe for CRY in
order to help Indian children, partially in
response to racist comments left on his
videos directed toward Indians.[4][5]
PewDiePie also hosted a livestream on 4
December, donating all of its proceeds to
CRY. He managed to raise over
$200,000.[4]

Financial information
The primary source of revenue for the
organisation is through donations by
individuals and other organisations.

Campaigns
CRY launches campaigns that amplify the
voice of children and their rights. These
campaigns focus on specific issues - from
influencing child-friendly policies to
rehabilitation efforts in disasters and
natural calamities to creating awareness
on the situation of children. A few are
given below.

Click Rights 2014: ‘#OpenYourEyes’ was

an attempt to sensitize citizens and shake
duty bearers out of their inertia and open
their eyes to the grim reality of child labor
in India. This campaign used CRY’s annual
photo-journalism campaign ‘Click Rights’
and #OpenYourEyes to start the
conversation on putting a stop to child
labor.
Let Her Fly 2015: "Let Her Fly’ focused on
the girl child in India who still faces
discrimination. In an effort to make sure
the girl child is celebrated in India, the
campaign strived to inspire and encourage
parents, teachers and everyone to give the
girl child the opportunities that she so
rightly deserves.

Right to School 2016: Child Education

faces numerous challenges in India.
Through this campaign, CRY sought to
work with communities, education
authorities and the government to make
schools, functional schools equipped with
all the basic infrastructure and amenities
like toilets and clean drinking water. More
than 2,71,341 children were impacted
through this.

School the Spark 2016: School is a

platform where every child’s abilities and
talents are given an opportunity to shine.
Through the ‘School the Spark’ campaign,
CRY sought to transform the abilities of
children into greater possibilities of
change ensuring that 79,744 children
across CRY supported projects go to
school and complete their education.

See also
Odisha State Child Protection Society
 Gopali Youth Welfare Society

References
1. "CRY profile on NGOs India" .
ngosindia.com. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
2. "`It takes just a little gesture to
improve a child's life' " . The Indian
Express. 27 September 1999. Archived
from the original on 10 July 2009.
3. "Annual Report 2015-16" (PDF). CRY.
Retrieved 24 May 2017.
4. Farokhmanesh, Megan (3 December
2018). "PewDiePie urges his fans to
donate to charity as T-Series battle
 rages on" . The Verge. Retrieved
4 December 2018.
5. Hale, James Loke (3 December 2018).
"PewDiePie Battles Racist Fan
Comments By Raising Money For
Indian Child Rights Charity" .
Tubefilter. Retrieved 4 December 2018.

External links
Child Rights and You, official website

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