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1979
Established
3 Million+ Children Reached
Students
500+ Employees & Field Staff
Faculty
One of India's leading child rights organizations.
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Profile overview, facts & contact points
Key Details
Operating Hours
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM (Mon-Fri)Established
1979Address & Contacts
Address
Siri Institutional Area
Delhi, Delhi - 110049
Contact Officer
Support Team (Donor Relations)
Phone Number
Email Addresssupport@cry.org
Official Websitewww.cry.org
Child Rights and You (CRY) is a premier Indian non-governmental organisation founded in 1979 by Rippan Kapur that works across 20 states to protect fundamental child rights. The organisation addresses critical grassroots gaps and influences public policy by centering its efforts around the four pillars of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child:
Child Rights and You (CRY) has been a driving force in Indian child welfare since 1979, working to ensure that every child enjoys a happy, healthy, and secure childhood. By focusing on the four fundamental pillars of child rights—survival, development, protection, and participation—the organisation tackles systemic issues like child labor, malnutrition, illiteracy, and early marriage. Rather than relying on a direct-aid model, CRY empowers local communities, partners with grassroots NGOs, and interfaces with government bodies to create sustainable, long-term ecosystem shifts across 20 Indian states.
At the heart of its operations are high-impact initiatives like the Community-Based Management of Malnutrition, school retention drives, and the formation of localized child protection committees. CRY bridges immediate resources and policy gaps by upgrading school infrastructure, running specialized health camps, and setting up adolescent collectives that teach children to advocate for their own rights. Through strategic public campaigns, independent research fellowships, and a vast network of volunteers, the organisation continues to transform vulnerable villages and slums into safe, enabling environments where children can thrive.
Education
📚 Education (Right to Development)
- School Retention Drives: Collaborating with parents, teachers, and School Management Committees (SMCs) to reduce dropouts.
- Support Classes: Operating interactive audio-visual learning setups to bridge pandemic-induced or socio-economic learning gaps.
- #PooriPadhaiDeshKiBhalai: A strategic micro-donation campaign designed to support over 2.4 lakh children in completing secondary school.
- Infrastructure Upgrades: Creating enabling learning ecosystems by setting up dedicated digital spaces, science camps, and STEM centers.
Health & Nutrition
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Health & Nutrition (Right to Survival)
- CBMM Programme: Operating the Community-Based Management of Malnutrition initiative targeting children, adolescents, and lactating mothers. [1]
- Sneha Shivirs: Running specialized village rehabilitation camps to treat severe acute malnutrition locally. [1]
- Grassroots Preventive Care: Establishing local Health and Nutrition Corners, conducting regular growth monitoring, and executing vaccination drives. [1]
- Kitchen Gardens: Educating rural households on farming local crops to secure self-sufficient, long-term food security.
Safety & Protection
🛡️ Safety & Protection (Right to Protection)
- Exploitation Countermeasures: Designing multi-tiered, localized tracking networks to proactively halt child labor, child trafficking, and early child marriages.
- Livelihood Linking: Assisting vulnerable, at-risk families by connecting them with stable government livelihood schemes to lower household dependency on child labor.
- Stakeholder Mobilisation: Forming and training localized Village Child Protection Committees alongside Anganwadi staff to monitor security issues.
Child Participation
🗣️ Child Participation (Right to Participation)
- Children’s Collectives: Setting up structured adolescent groups that help marginalized kids collectively recognize their rights and form a unified voice.
- Life Skills Program: Training children in essential problem-solving abilities, boundary setting, safe emotional expression, and critical thinking.
- Fin-Smart Heroes: Running active volunteer-led financial literacy workshops to teach underprivileged youth budgeting basics and scam awareness.
- National Policy Advocacy: Conducting participatory research directly involving children to present their collective expectations and reports to parliamentarians and the NCPCR.
Research
🔬 Core Research & Public Platforms
- National Child Rights Research Fellowship (NCRRF): Sponsoring independent researchers to conduct analytical studies on changing dimensions of children's rights.
- Rashtriya Kavya Utsav: Partnering with the Ministry of Education to run a national creative arts and poetry recitation platform to expand student expression.
- Volunteer Action Network: Offering structured civic participation routes, coordinating more than 3,000 active citizens and institutional internships annually.