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Dear
Friend,
The last few months have seen us involved in a host of activities
that got us significant media exposure in India. During the
6-week campaign for the XI Lok Sabha, we carried out our first
advocacy campaign for child
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We drafted a Children's
Manifesto, urged people to email and write to party
leaders to make it part of their agenda. 1720 people signed
their support online.
The hugely popular TV serial, Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi, incorporated
the “Vote for Child Rights” campaign as part of their
script, and Jassi, the lead actress, was shown wearing the pinwheel
badge. |
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FM
Channel, GO 92.5 FM, launched GO
Cares with CRY. Every Sunday, for a year, from 4
pm to 6 pm, the programme will cover children's issues and CRY.
Celebrities will interact with children from CRY-supported projects
and urge listeners to “do something” like donate a
day's salary or volunteer skills.
The BBC as part of their India Business Report programme aired
a film on CRY documenting its origins, evolution and approach.
This is our fourth CRY Connect. It's time to ask for your
feedback, to help us make this e-letter more relevant
to you. As always, we welcome your suggestions.
In faith and goodwill,
The CRY Team
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In
the 25 years that CRY has been in existence, we have been able
to transform the lives of 1.25 million underprivileged children.
And yet, with more than 111 million children in India deprived
of their basic rights, our efforts have been but a drop in the
ocean. The only way to scale up our efforts is to recruit every
Indian to our cause. What better time to kickstart this effort
than our 25th
anniversary (28th January 2004)!
On this day, we launched a mass awareness campaign on child
rights, which we hope, will lead to a mass mobilisation of support
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We will be urging people from all walks of life to come forward
and pledge support to India's children by buying and wearing
the pinwheel. What the spinning wheel was to the freedom movement,
and the red ribbon to AIDS, we believe the pinwheel will be
to the movement for child rights in India. To get your pinwheel,
contact
the nearest CRY office. |
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Makemytrip.com
collaborated with CRY on our first ever online fund raiser ...
a mega mela targeted at non-resident Indians (NRI's). The event
included recipes from Tarla Dalal, auction of celebrity memorabilia
from Rahul Dravid and others, and a contest with a free ticket
to India or Taj holidays as prizes.
Mobile2win.com,
a company doing promotions via mobile phones, has put CRY cards
for download on mobiles. The proceeds will be donated to CRY.
Download
your wallpaper now.
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Fabmall.com,
the online shopping mall, will donate 5% of the sales of select
products like fine art prints, carved wax candles, silk scarves,
and desktop accessories to CRY. Visit
and shop away !
MSN India partnered CRY in creating awareness on child
rights during its Election Advocacy campaign by placing CRY
banners on their various web services - Hotmail, MSN Messenger
and on www.msn.co.in
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CRY
volunteers in Japan have been raising funds by selling CRY
cards and organising small events.If you are interested in CRY
activities, write to ic.del@crymail.org
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Volunteer
efforts in Kuwait have resulted in raising Rs. 2.19 lakhs
through the 6th annual Kids CRY Cricket tournament, an event
at which 24 teams participated. They distributed CRY leaflets
at a workshop on Presentation Skills for the Insitution of Engineers
India (Kuwait Chapter). They also gave a presentation on CRY
to the students of the Gulf Indian School (GIS), which resulted
in the school decision to donate the proceeds of their annual
fair to CRY.
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The
world of 12-year old Vasudev is a dimly lit one, filled with
heat and ash he works in a brick kiln in the Nal Sarovar area
of Gujarat. The world of 12-year old Hansa Padhar is a mobile
one her parents are marginal farmers from a village in the Ahmedabad
district of Gujarat, who migrate from their village every year
in search of work. Like other migrant children in the area,
Vasudev and Hansa would never have been able to go to school,
had it not been for Ganatar, a CRY-supported organisation. More... |
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CRY
Bangalore organised Come Share My World on February 29,
2004, at Bishop Cotton's School. Computers with Internet connections
were set up to allow visitors access to the CRY and CRYbuddies
sites. More...
To mark Anti-Child Labour Day (30th April) the children of Mahadevi
Birla Girls High Secondary School, Kolkata, participated in
a Collage Competition that highlighted the plight of 110 million
child laboureres in India. Class VIII won the first prize.
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The
pinwheel campaign got off to a flying start in Kolkata
in April 2004. College students sold badges in
their college(s). The CRY Buddies Group of Salt Lake Housing
Society, a group of 5 children, campaigned in their housing
colony as well as with their friends. Three volunteers went
to the Victoria Memorial grounds early in the morning to approach
the morning walkers with pinwheels. They were so persuasive
that apart from getting people to sign the pinwheels, they were
requested to campaign for a political party too! Tremendous
support was also received from retail outlets like Shoppers
Stop, Pantaloons, Sumangal and Metro Plaza. Corporates who bought
badges included Heritage Finance & Trust Ltd, Lafarge, Tata
Consultancy Services, Steelplus, Bank of Baroda, Girija Mercantile,
British Council, and UCO Bank.
From March 2004, CRY has an office in the UK. Contact
Nina Munshi at cryuk.london@crymail.org
for more on how you can participate in this movement on child
rights
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Bal
Taal, a concert of Indian Classical Fusion music, was organised
by CRY as part of our 25th anniversary celebrations. Artistes
included legendary tabla player, Ustad Zakir Hussain, his brother
Fazal Quereshi, Ranjit Barot on drums, Selva Ganesh on the kanjira,
U. Srinivas and U. Rajesh on the mandolin and Kumaresh Ganesh
on the violin. Brooke Bond 'Taj Mahal' sponsored the event nationally.
BSNL was the National Co-Sponsor. State Bank of India, Plus
Business Machines, G.R. Thangamaligai Jewelers and Samsung were
Regional Sponsors. |
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©
2004 CRY - Child Relief and You Designed by Grey Interactive Photographs
courtesy CRY photobank
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