A Day at "Roorkee School For The Deaf"

On April 25th, 2012, CRY Student Chapter IIT Roorkee organized its first ever event. The day-long event was organized for children of Roorkee School For The Deaf, IIT Roorkee and comprised of drawing competition followed by screening of some animated movies.

For more photos of the event please visit: http://www.facebook.com/CRY.IITR
For video clip of the event please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTn9bqlFmOk

The best part of the event was that CRY volunteers were able to bring some more happiness in life of the children; doesn't matter how short or long it was.

CRY is really proud of the initiative and wishes the team of CRY Student Chapter IIT Roorkee all the best for all future endeavors.

CRY Opens Two New RTE Booths at Dakshinpuri and Dwarka

Recently CRY opened RTE Booths at two of its GeoPAGs located at Dakshinpuri and Dwarka. These centers (also known as CACs) will be functional twice a month at both places. On the opening day itself these centers witnessed a lot of community involvement and complaints from people, as evident from following statistics:

Dakshinpuri CAC
            Opening day (27th March 2012 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm) statistics:
                 (a) Total participation – over 200
                 (b) Complaints received – 5

Dwarka CAC
            Opening day (30th March 2012 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm) statistics:
                 (a) Total participation – over 100
                 (b) Complaints received – 2

Click Rights Photo Exhibitions

Since 17th Dec 2011, under guidance of Ms. Violet Barman, a professional photographer, CRY Delhi Volunteer Group has started using Click Rights to draw attention of goverment towards poor conditions of MCD schools. This is done by putting up photo exhibitions at public places. Overall process followed for a typical photo exhibition is - firstly, CRY volunteers go out to click photographs showing poor conditions of MCD schools; secondly, the phographs clicked by the volunteers are displayed in a photo exhibition at some public place of high footfall; thirdly, public visiting the exhibition is requested to sign a petition, which requests government to improve the conditions.

Till now the exhibitions have been conducted at following places:

1. Dilli Haat on 17th and 18th Dec 2011
2. Select Citywalk Mall on 14th and 15th Jan 2012
3. Miranda House College on 23rd to 25th Feb 2012
4. Kamla Nehru College on 20th March 2012
5. Jamia Milia Islamia on 22nd March 2012
6. IHC on 7th and 8th April 2012

Following are links to some photographs that have been displayed in exhibitions:

Collection of Photographs

Dog Inside Classroom

Poor Drinking-Water Supply

Success of the effort is evident from the fact that till now we have around 6000 signatures to support our petition to government for improvement of conditions of MCD schools. We hope that this huge public support will help us achieve our goal of ensuring proper infrastructure for children studying at MCD schools.

Delhi's RWA Supports Incorporation of Child Rights in Election Manifesto of Political Parties

Delhi's Residents Welfare Association (RWA), the body that covers all RWAs of Delhi supports CRY's demands for incorporating child rights in election manifesto of the political parties in the upcoming MCD elections.

This RWA represents almost every area of Delhi and demands proper facilities for children in the schools from these nominated MCD candidates, which are fighting elections from different wards of Delhi.

Check out RWA Bhagidari's blog.

http://www.rwabhagidari.blogspot.in/2012/04/child-rights-and-you-cry.html

CRY thanks RWA for its support.

This election vote for child rights.

CRY and it's partnerAlliance for People's Rights (APR) demand all political parties to give priority to issues of children in their party's election manifesto. 

CRY Survey: Primary Education in Delhi Slips down

Condition in MCD Schools

The Classroom Scene

What do you feel about these conditions in the MCD Schools? Post your comments.