1979 - 1983 Milestones
1979
- Rippan Kapur and six friends raise Rs. 50/- and register CRY as an Indian Charitable Trust.
- "Buy a Brick, Build a School", CRY's first event, sensitises privileged school children, even as it raises funds for underprivileged children.
- Rs. 1,14,000/- is raised for Shilpalaya Technical Institute, which focuses on vocational training and foster care.
1980
Cards Division starts operations. Sells 30,000 CRY Greeting Cards, based on two designs by Sanat Surti, a well-known artist and illustrator.
1981
- Nirmala is hired as CRY's first employee and works from Rippan's mother's dining table which was the "office."
- Access to free and quality education becomes CRY's main focus in its partnership with projects.
- Parisar Asha, CRY's first long-term education project, takes off. Its emphasis is on environmental education.
- Three clowns from London stage a traveling fund-raising show, Circus Magic, entertaining poor children through workshops, while raising funds.
1982
- Amita Kapur starts CRY's Delhi office in her house.
- Mumbai (then Bombay) office moves to Rippan's new house.
1983
- Mumbai (then Bombay) office moves out of Rippan's house, to Akash Ganga donated by the Society's Trust to CRY, free of cost.
- Card production stops because of new Income Tax Laws prohibiting trusts from running business activities.
- Children's Day with M F Hussain sees the celebrated artist painting in the company of 1,000 children. It is CRY's third fund-raising event.
- Focus widens to include education, health and family planning.
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