Child Rights and You (CRY)

CRY, Child Rights and You, ensures happier childhoods across India. It holds a vision of a happy, healthy, and creative child whose rights find protection and honor in a society built on respect, dignity, justice, and equity. It maintains a mission to enable individuals to take responsibility for the situation of marginalized Indian children and to motivate them to seek solutions through collective action. The focus centers on seeing more children in school, living healthier lives, and remaining free from any form of exploitation.

Major Interventions:

Education Program implements an education program that ensures children go to school and complete their education. This initiative focuses on improving school enrollment, enhancing student retention, and offering supplementary academic support to underprivileged students. Child Participation Program creates a nurturing environment where children express their thoughts and participate in decisions that affect their lives. Through the formation of children's collectives, the program transforms young individuals into active agents of change who hold dialogues on critical social issues.

Health and Nutrition Program increases access to proper nutrition and quality healthcare for children. It focuses on reducing undernourishment and protecting young children from being underweight through consistent community-level interventions.

Safety and Protection Program addresses critical issues such as child labor, child marriage, trafficking, and abuse. It actively rescues children from hazardous environments, challenges regressive societal stigmas, and safeguards adolescent girls from early marriage. Public Advocacy and Policy Program drives systemic change by partnering with district, state, and national governments to strengthen child-centric policies. It conducts training workshops for bureaucrats and sanitizes society to ensure that children remain a top priority for the nation.