Twitter Chat for EAC Campaign

CRY Twitter Chat on why a #voteforchildrights this #elections2014 is the need of the hour Join CRY- Child Rights and You on 5th March 2014 at 3 P.M. for a LIVE Twitter chat to discover why #childrights should be one of the priority issues this upcoming election and how YOU can join a nation-wide movement to help ensure lasting change for India’s children. Date: Wednesday, 5th March 2014, 3:00 to 3:45 P.M. Who: Kreeanne Rabadi, Regional Director- CRY (West) via the @CRYIndia Twitter handle How to join?: Send in your questions/comments with #voteforchildrights to@CRYIndia Children constitute one-third of our country’s population. It is time for us to #voteforchildrights. Learn more about the CRY Vote for Child Rights campaignhere. CRY - Child Rights and You is an Indian NGO that believes in every child’s right to a childhood - to live, learn, grow and play. For over 30 years, CRY and its 200 partner NGOs have worked with parents and communities to ensure Lasting Change in the lives of more than 2,000,000 underprivileged children, across 23 states in India.

Vote if You Believe CRY is the Best Leader in Volunteer Engagement

This could not have come at a better time!
CRY had applied to the I Volunteer BEST LEADERS IN VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT and
has been shortlisted. Please vote and ask all to vote for us. Please vote ASAP as the voting phase
will not be on for too long. Please ensure maximum people vote, as every vote counts and we can win
only if we get maximum votes. To cast your vote visit this.

Election Advocacy Campaign @ Property Fairs

21st and 22nd Dec 2013, HT organized a Property Fair at Expocenter, Sec-62, Noida, in which almost all renowned builders of NCR showcased their current real estate projects and provided lucrative offers for instant booking. The fair was attended by many people who were mostly adults and suitable target to be made aware of the right of children to be considered in manifestos of political parties for forthcoming Lok Shabha Election 2014. Patrons were made aware of the right through EAC campaign brought to the platform by CRY Volunteers. Approximately 250 patrons supported the cause by signing pledge.

Creative Classes @ Rithala

This is to make you aware of the journey of creative classes at rithala. The classes are conducted at NGO partner 'Saksham' in shahbad dairy, B block under supervision and assistance of centre head Mr Santlal and activist Mrs Maya.

VISION:

The creative classes were in visioned as an out come of SOTY training where we realised the real ingredient missing among the kids was lack of confidence and exposure to things which very naturally is available to privileged kids. So main vision statement for the classes are to bring confidence and all world holistic exposure to these kids through creative, co curricular and unconventional methods.

We aim to provide them with activities apart from normal studies which help a normal kid in personality development.

INGREDIENTS:

LIBRARY - books we believe are a window to the whole world and a child's best exposure to both creative and real world . so we established a small library with help of fellow volunteers and need more books.

BOOK READING SESSIONS- each volunteer helps a kid in reading stories from books we have collected. Helping him/her  with word meanings, comprehension and grammar involved in process. In the end each  kid then   dramatises the whole story in his/her own words with the help of other kids who play the role of different characters of the story. Aim is to improve in English and creative expression of acquired knowledge to other kids.

GAMES AND PUZZLES - scrabble for vocabulary building, colouring exercises to expand creative horizons. Various other such modules we are developing and will implement in coming classes.

DANCE AND MUSIC - we noticed dance and music is the real game changer for the classes and we now often have sessions where kids sing dance and even prepare small musical skits based on local community rituals. One of the volunteers miss kanika has started small dance teaching sessions for kids.

We are developing more creative modules and time to time will keep sharing with you but we would require a lot of input from all of you. Please do help us with your suggestions, teaching modules and resources of all nature

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION:

We volunteers decided to celebrate christmas with kids at the centre and it was a brilliant experience. There was lots of food,music,games and gifts. We would look forward to have more such celebrations in creative classes and you all are welcome in it. Volunteers of creative classes would like to thank Anita, piyush logani and megha (unfortunately she was not able to make it to final event ) for support and participation in Christmas celebration with us.

Author: Kumar Abhishek

Donate by Simply Tweeting

Micromax has launched a twitter campaign for Christmas, wherein for each tweet on #CANGiftHappiness it would donate Re. 1/- to CRY. Within few hours of its launch, the campaign became one of the top topics on twitter in India. Requesting all readers to tweet on this # and help CRY in its social endeavour (get friends and family also to tweet!). All that you have to do is to log into your twitter account and post tweets with this tag. The message could be just about anything – something that makes you happy, something which you want to do to make others happy, something to do with child rights – anything and everything works! You can do a search on twitter with #CANGiftHappiness to see the kind of stuff people are posting – just in case you need any idea starters.

The more tweets we get in the next 6 days on this – the more funding we get! So please do start tweeting.

The added incentive - you can win a Micromax phone as well, autographed by Hugh Jackman.

Rock for Child Rights

This event, is about bringing music lovers in Delhi together for a two day event when they can enjoy the music that they love and at the same time can do something to ensure lasting change for underprivileged children in India. This event will bring together rock groups from across the country and part proceeds from the sale of tickets will be given to CRY.

This event will also see band members from multiple bands come together to create an “anthem for children”. Children from Music Basti will be sharing the stage along with these musicians to perform this anthem as a grand finale to this two day show.

Date: 7th & 8th December, 2013

Venue: Zorba (next to the Sultanpur Metro Station)

Time: 12 noon – 8 pm on both days.

Vote for Child Rights

Dear Volunteer, The power of a vote - your vote can change the lives of millions for the better. Soon, our country will go to the polls. Shockingly, a whopping one-third of India’s citizens will not have a say in determining who forms our next government. Their basic rights are violated every single day. They have no economic power, no vote and therefore no voice. They are India’s children, and they need us - we who have both a voice and a vote - to speak up for them. Today, 66 years after independence, the situation of the Indian child is a grim one: ·         Every second child in India is malnourished ·         11.8% of children in India are engaged in some form of child labour ·         National Dropout Rate at the Elementary Level is over 40% ·         Nearly 45% of girls get married before the age of eighteen years. This election, CRY - Child Rights and You, as an independent non-government organisation working in the area of child rights for over 33 years, has developed a Child Rights Manifesto. We are urging political parties to focus on the issues affecting the rights of Indian children while fashioning their agendas. Being a people’s movement, we need your support! We urge you to join us in this campaign. Visitwww.cry.org/voteforchildrights and sign your support online. Download the Advocacy Kit and become a 'vote for child rights' campaigner. Put up the poster wherever you can. Tell your friends about this campaign. Your support to CRY will be instrumental in ensuring that children become this nation’s top most priority - a place they rightfully deserve. Let us use this opportunity to work together to make India a better place for our children. In faith and goodwill,

Puja Marwaha, Chief Executive, CRY