CRY Connect - our e-newsletter.

To stay updated on CRY's activities such as its work with NGO partners and grassroots-level communities, fundraising, news and latest hapennings, events and information in area of Child Rights, simply subscribe for your quarterly e-letter. 

Latest:

Vol 12/ 2007, November 2007

Over a year has gone by since the government's ban on child labour. What has it achieved so far? This issue asks these questions and more. Also highlighted is the progress made in the field by CRY partners to ensure children their basic rights. One such partner is KMAGVS in Latur disctrict of Maharashtra. Along with the village communities it has made efforts to tackle issues like livelihood, access to public services that keep families mired in poverty and children out of schools. More...

Archived Issues:

Vol 11/ 2007, March 2007

This edition of the CRY Connect highlights the extraordinary lengths that ordinary individuals have gone in support of Child Rights. Our supporters have climbed a mountain, run a marathon to ensure India's children have a brighter future. It also brings into focus the power of collective action as demonstrated by villagers in Rajasthan. Encouraged by HVVS (a CRY partner) to demand for their rights, today, the villagers lease and operate the mines instead of being at the mercy of landlords and mine owners. Giving themselves a livelihood and their children a chance to a happy childhood More..

Vol 10/ 2006, July 2006

Statistics reveal that more that 50% of India's children are malnourished. It is an issue that has constantly been in the news off late especially in Maharashtra. Unfortunately, this is not a phenomenon restricted to this state alone but affecting children across India, unnoticed and neglected. More..

Vol 9/ 2005, April 2006

This edition of the CRY Connect brings to you some significant events in the course of the past few months. On 28th February, 2006, thousands of people came together in Delhi to demand a common schooling system for all children in India and CRY changes its name to Child RIGHTS and You. The newsletter also highlights the Right to Development that all children are entitled to and the gamut of issues that affect children if this right is violated. More..


Vol 8/ 2005, October 2005

The Right to Survival is of particular importance in the Indian context, where due to gender discrimination a girl child has to struggle to simply exist. The 8th issue of the CRY Connect focuses on this basic right of every child in the country. Also covered in the newsletter are articles that highlight the situation of children and their rights in India.

Vol 7/2005, April 2005

This issue of the CRY Connect highlights the reality of many Indian children for whom a childhood is helping their families eke a living. Through CRY's 157 partner initiatives, we have taken and continue to take these children out of the labour system and back into the educational system where they rightly belong. Helping us do this are supporters, volunteers and well-wishers like you.

Vol 6/2005, Jan 2005

The 6th issue of CRY Connect focuses on the valuable (and valued!) contributions made by volunteers to CRY and its activities and their belief that "Change is possible. Because I'll make it possible." It also covers the Gram Vikas Foundation,a CRY-supported initiative in the Deoghar district of Jharkhand working with the issue of bonded labour and the vicious cycle of illiteracy, poverty, disease and exploitation.

Vol 5/2004, Sep 2004

The 5th issue of CRY Connect focuses on the girl child, and reviews the work done by CRY-supported project, CENTREREDA, in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, where female infanticide has severely skewed the sex ratio. It also covers QICAC - CRY's twin-pronged efforts to promote alternatives to and improve the quality of institutional care.

Vol 4/2004, June 2004

The fourth issue of CRY Connect focuses on a host activities we were involved in the last few months like the Election Advocacy Campaign and the pinwheel campaign. It also reviews the work being done by CRY-supported initiative Ganatar, in eradicating child labour especially in communities who migrate in search of work.

Vol 3/2004, March 2004

The third issue of CRY Connect covers CRY's participation at the World Social Forum and reviews the work being done by CRY-supported initiatives, Rachana and Nabadisha. There's also the celebration of our silver anniversary and a change of leadership, with Ingrid Srinath taking over from Pervin Varma.

Vol 2/2003, Dec 2003

The second issue of CRY Connect launches CRYbuddies, our site for children, and introducing the work of CRY-supported projects Jabala (working to rehabilitate commercial sex workers and their children in Kolkata, West Bengal) and Nabadisha (a Kolkata Police supported project that enables slum and street children in Kolkata, West Bengal, to get an education).

Vol 1/2003, Aug 2003

The first issue of our e-letter - CRY Connect, introduces you to the work of CRY-supported initiatives Children's Welfare Society (working for adivasis in Ghoraval, Uttar Pradesh) and Kishore Kishori Bahini, the youth wing of Swarnivar (working in the areas of pre-primary and primary education in rural West Bengal).