Child Rights and You

Child Rights and You (formerly Child Relief and You) is a non-profit organisation in India that aims to restore childrens' rights in India. The organisation was established in 1979. The organisation partners with grass-roots Non governmental organisations to uplift thousands of Indian children denied basic childrens rights.

It was started by Rippan Kapur, who died at a very young age of 40.

Name : CRY - Child Rights and You. (CRY changed it's name from Child Relief and You to Child Rights and You as on April 1, 2006.)

Status : Non-Government Organisation (NGO)

Address : CRY - Child Rights and You, 189/A Anand Estate, Sane Guruji Marg, Mumbai 400011. Telephone : +91-022-2309 6845 / 2306 3651 / 3647. Fax : +91-022-2308 0726. Email : cryinfo.mum@crymail.org

Branches : Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata

Tax Status : All donations to CRY are eligible for tax exemption - 50% tax exempt under Section 80G. CRY also offers 100% tax exemption under Section 35 AC or 80GGA. For more information, write to the CRY office nearest to you.

Origin of CRY: In 1979, seven friends made a simple decision to change the lives of India's underprivileged children. Led by a 25 year airline purser, Rippan Kapur, Rs. 50 and a dining table as their resources and a belief that each one can make a difference in a child's life, they aimed to enable all children to realize their full potential. This was how CRY began.

Unusually, the founders of CRY chose not to fund a grassroots-level implementing organisation working directly with and for underprivileged children. Instead, they opted to make CRY a channel or a link between the millions of individuals who could provide resources and the thousands of dedicated fieldworkers who were struggling to function for lack of them. They saw their role as "enablers" and in so doing created an institution that is a unique model of a community movement that takes responsibility for its weakest and most vulnerable members and motivates and catalyses change on their behalf.

Today, CRY is a peoples' movement for the rights of India's children encompassing diverse segments, each pledging their particular strengths, working in partnership for their common cause.

MISSION: To enable people to take responsibility for the situation of the deprived Indian child and so motivate them to confront the situation through collective action thereby giving the child and themselves an opportunity to realise their full potential.

ROLE: Our role is that of an enabler and in so doing, we have been able to not only accomplish numerous milestones but also create an institution that is a unique model of a community movement that takes responsibility for its weakest and most vulnerable members and motivates and catalyses change on their behalf.

We work in partnership with individuals and organisations, whom we support financially / non-financially as well as with you, people from all walks of life, who believe in the rights of children. Within CRY too, each function works in unison towards ensuring our vision - equal rights for all children. 

The key functions of Development Support (grant making) and Resource Mobilisation (fundraising) along with the other support functions - Communications, Human Resources, Youth and Volunteer action, Finance, Planning and Information Technology, Policy and Research, Documentation, The CRY Shop - all play a critical role in our organisation building efforts.