At Child Rights and You, the Volunteer Action division enables public action for child rights. Our main programs are building locality based public action groups and initiating issue based campaigns.
About the NGO: Child Rights and You (CRY) is a non government organisation working since 1979. CRY exists today - to amplify the voice of children. CRY partners with other organisations and individuals to reach out to the most marginalised sections of society enabling and empowering them to fight for their rights.
Target audience: Underpriviledged children and communities in rural and urban India
Focus areas: Child rights and human rights
Approach: At CRY, we do not believe in charity. Nor do we run schools, orphanages or dispensaries. Instead we partner grassroots-level NGOs working with children, their parents and communities. 29 years of working with and for children have taught us that resources have little to do with it. In over 2500 villages and slums across 18 States, we have witnessed transformational change happening. All it takes is communities becoming aware of their rights and coming together to ensure them. Not just by enrolling children in schools but by addressing the root causes that keep them hungry, illiterate, exploited and abused. Causes like gender, caste, livelihoods and displacement.
