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STUDY ON WORK OF CRY NGO
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE TO CHILD RIGHTS..................................................................................................

COMPANY OUTLINE..................................................................................................................
WORK STEPS OF CRY................................................................................................................
CRY PROJECTS AT A MOMENTARY LOOK.........................................................................
4.1 Place for Human Empowerment through Education Related Services - CHEERS Tamil
Nadu.........................................................................................................................................
4.2 Aakar, Maharashtra..................................................................................................................
4.3 Action for Health Education & Social Awareness (AHESAS) Delhi......................................
4.4 Adarsh Seva Sansthan - ASES Jharkhand................................................................................
4.5 ADIVASI VIKAS TRUST (AVT), GUJARAT........................................................................
4.7 AMBREEN BASHIR KANROO JAMMU KASHMIR..........................................................
4.8 APNE AAP WOMEN'S COLLECTIVE, MAHARASHTRA.................................................
4.9 ZONE NETWORKING AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES (ANANDI), GUJARAT
..................................................................................................................................................
4.10 ASSOCIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH ACTION IN RURAL AREAS
(ADHAR) ORISSA..................................................................................................................
4.11 ASTITWA SAMAJIK SANSTHAN (ASS) UTTAR PRADESH..........................................
4.12 AURANGA GRAMIN VIKAS SAMITI - AGVS JHARKHAND........................................
4.13 BAHUJAN SAMAJIK TRUST GUJRAT.............................................................................
4.14 BAL VIKAS DHARA (BVD) DELHI...................................................................................
4.15 BAL SAKHA, ASSAM..........................................................................................................
4.16. BIHAR LOK ADHIKAR MANCH (BLAM) THROUGH DISHA VIHAR, BIHAR.........
4.17 BUNIYADI ADHIKAR ANDOLAN GUJARAT (BAAG) - THROUGH GSS,
GUJARAT................................................................................................................................
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4.18 CSD - CENTRE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT MANIPUR...........................................

4.19 CHALE CHALO ORISSA....................................................................................................
4.20 CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN GOA (CRG), GOA....................................................................
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................
REFFRENCES...............................................................................................................................
CHAPTER 1
PROLOGUE TO CHILD RIGHTS

What are Child Rights?
A privilege is as an assention or contract built up between the persons who hold a privilege
(regularly alluded to as the "rights-holders") and the persons or organizations which then
have commitments and obligations in connection to the acknowledgment of that privilege
(frequently alluded to as the "obligation bearers".) Child rights are specific human rights that
apply to every single individual underneath the age of 18.
Universally child rights are defined by the United Nations and United Nations Convention on
the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). According to the UNCRC Child Rights are minimum
entitlements and freedoms that should be afforded to all persons below the age of 18
regardless of race, colour, gender, language, religion, opinions, origins, wealth, birth status or
ability and therefore apply to all people everywhere. The UN finds these rights
interdependent and indivisible, meaning that a right can not be fulfilled at the expense of
another right.
The motivation behind the UNCRC is to plot the essential human rights that ought to be stood
to kids. There are four expansive orders of these rights. These four classifications cover all
common, political, social, financial and social rights of every child.
Right to Survival: A child's right to survival begins before a child is born. According
to Government of India, a child life begins after twenty weeks of conception. Hence
the right to survival is inclusive of the child rights to be born, right to minimum
standards of food, shelter and clothing, and the right to live with dignity.
Right to Protection: A child has the right to be protected from neglect, exploitation
and abuse at home, and elsewhere.
Right to Participation: A child has a right to participate in any decision making that
involves him/her directly or indirectly. There are varying degrees of participation as
per the age and maturity of the child.
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Right to Development: Children have the right to all forms of development:
Emotional, Mental and Physical. Emotional development is fulfilled by proper care

and love of a support system, mental development through education and learning and
physical development through recreation, play and nutrition.
What is Child Safety?
UNICEF considers kid security as the counteractive action of or reacting to the rate of
misuse, abuse, savagery and disregard of kids. This incorporates business sexual misuse,
trafficking, kid work and hurtful conventional practices, for example, female genital
mutilation/cutting and youngster marriage. Protection also allows children to have access to
their other rights of survival, development, growth and participation. UNICEF maintains that
when child protection fails or is absent children have a higher risk of death, poor physical and
mental health, HIV/AIDS infection, educational problems, displacement, homelessness,
vagrancy and poor parenting skills later in life.
According to the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) Child Protection is about
keeping children safe from a risk or perceived risk to their lives or childhood. It is about
recognizing that children are vulnerable and hence reducing their vulnerability by protecting
them from harm and harmful situations. Kid protection speaks the truth guaranteeing that
youngsters have a security net to rely on upon, and in the event that they happen to fall
through the openings in the framework, the framework has the obligation to give the kid the
fundamental consideration and restoration to bring them over into the safety net.
CHILD PROTECTION
Prevention
Intervention
Rehabilitation
Law and Policies
Laws and Policies
Laws and Policies
Processes and
Access and
Long term care until
Protocols
Mechanisms and
Assistance
Systems
Monitoring
Immediate Relief
(SOS attention)
Restoration of
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age 18
Skills and Training
Sensitization and
rights/Status Quo
Awareness Building
Punish violators
Understanding the Variation

It is vital to comprehend the distinction between these two ideas. Child rights are a situated of
standards or goals. They are privileges and some of them are legitimate in a court of law,
however they are not substantial. Protection is one of these rights. Be that as it may, Child
Protection is more than a privilege. It is a structure or framework by which the rights of a
child can come to be. The system comprises of different obligation bearers, for example, the
bureaus of the government, police, school, common society, who all have parts to play to
guarantee that a child's rights are met, and for the situation that a child's rights are abused that
the violator be conveyed to equity and consideration be given to the child. Child protection is
treatment, as well as be preventive. Hazard administration needs to happen to decrease the
danger of infringement of child rights in any given situation or space.
Child protection is hence the means through which all other rights of a child can be upheld.
For example a child has a right to live a normal childhood in a family environment. The child
protection framework need to first take steps to ensure families are able to survive by
providing them when health, education, and food for free or at minimal cost. The next step is
to address the needs of children who have fallen through the cracks such as destitute,
abandoned, and orphan children. The framework includes the mechanisms to relocate these
children into caring families either through adoption or foster care and provide these children
with access to health and education services. Hence the framework is not a single ministry or
single government body it is the interlinking functions of all ministries and sectors.
Who is a Child?
Characterizing what age a man is or stops to be a child is a steady open deliberation in the
India. The Census of India considers children to be any individual underneath the age of 14,
as do most government projects. Biologically childhood is the stage between infancy and
adulthood. According to the UNCRC 'a child means every human being below the age of
eighteen years unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier'. This
definition of child allows for individual countries to determine according to the own
discretion the age limits of a child in their own laws. But in India various laws related to
children define children in different age limits.
The Indian Penal Code (IPC) 1860 finds that no child below the age of seven may be held
criminally responsible for an action (Sec 82 IPC). In case of mental disability or inability to
understand the consequences of one's actions the criminal responsibility age is raised to
twelve years (Sec 83 IPC). A girl must be of no less than sixteen years so as to give sexual
assent, unless she is hitched, in which case the recommended age is no less that fifteen. With
respect to protection against capturing, snatching and related offenses the given age is sixteen
for young men and eighteen for girls.
As per Article 21 (a) of the Indian Constitution all children between the ages of six to
fourteen ought to be furnished with free and obligatory instruction. Article 45 states that the
state ought to give early childhood consideration and training to all children underneath the
age of six. Lastly Article 51(k) states the parents/guardians of the children between the ages
of six and fourteen should provide them with opportunities for education.
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The Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 characterizes a child as a man who
has not finished fourteen years old. The Factories Act, 1948 and Plantation Labor Act 1951
states that a child is one that has not finished fifteen years old and an immature is one who
has finished fifteen years old yet has not finished eighteen years old. According to the
Factories Act adolescents are allowed to work in factories as long as they are deemed
medically fit but may not for more than four and half hours a day. The Motor Transport
Workers Act 1961, and The Beedi And Cigar Workers (Conditions Of Employment) Act
1966, both define a child as a person who has not completed fourteen years of age. The
Merchant Shipping Act 1958 and Apprentices Act 1961 don't define a child, but in provisions
of the act state that a child below fourteen is not permitted to work in occupations of the act.
The Mines Act, 1952 is the only labour related act that defines adult as person who has
completed eighteen years of age (hence a child is a person who has not completed eighteen
years of age).
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 states that a male has not came to lion's share
until he is twenty-one years old and a female has not came to dominant part until she is
eighteen years old. The Indian Majority Act, 1875 was enacted to create a blanket definition
of a minor for such acts as the Guardians and Wards Act of 1890. Under the Indian Majority
Act, 1875 a person has not attainted majority until he or she is of eighteen years of age. This
definition of a minor also stands for both the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 and
the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956. Muslim, Christian and Zoroastrian personal
law also upholds eighteen as the age of majority. The first Juvenile Justice Act, 1986 defined
a boy child as below sixteen years of age and a girl child as below eighteen years of age. The
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 has changed the definition of
child to any person who has not completed eighteen years of age.
Because of its umbrella clauses and because it is the latest law to be enacted regarding child
rights and protection, many are of the opinion that the definition of child found in the
Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 should be considered the legal definition for a child in all matters.
What is children ratio in India?
India with 1.21 billion people constitutes as the second most populous country in the world,
while children represents 39% of total population of the country.
Age group of Indias Children *
The figures show that the larger number of about 29 percent constitutes Children in the age
between 0-5 years. The share of Children (0-6 years) in the total population has showed a
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decline of 2.8 points in 2011, compared to Census 2001. The children's population (0-18) is
472 million.
Age group VS Gender of Indias Children *
While an absolute increase of 181 million in the countrys population has been recorded
during the decade 2001-2011, there is a reduction of 5.05 millions in the population of
children aged 0-6 years during 2010-11. The decline in male children is 2.06 million and in
female children is 2.99 millions. The share of Children (0-6 years) in the total population has
showed a decline of 2.8 points in 2011, compared to Census 2001 and the decline was sharper
for female children than male children in the age group 0-6 years.
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Gender of Indias Children *
The number of boys has dropped 2.42 per cent and that of girls 3.80 per cent. Population (0-6
years) 2001-2011 registered minus (-) 3.08 percent growth with minus (-)2.42 for males and
-3.80 for females. The proportion of Child Population in the age group of 0-6 years to total
population is 13.1 percent while the corresponding figure in 2001 was 15.9 percent. The
decline has been to the extent of 2.8 points.
Rural - Urban Distribution of Children Population *
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State shrewd dissemination of Children's populace *
Uttar Pradesh (19.27%) is the state with highest childrens population in the country followed
by Bihar (10.55 %), Maharashtra (8.15 %), West Bengal (6.81 %) and Madhya Pradesh
(6.46%) constitutes 52% of Childrens population in the country.
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State astute and Gender insightful circulation of Children's populace *
Male Female Childrens Ratio *
The Child gender Ratio in the country has declined.
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Gender wise Adult V/S Children *
Gender wise distribution of Rural - Urban Children Population *
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Age distribution of Rural & Urban population *
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Comparison of Adult and Children population in Rural and Urban India *
* Data Source: Census of India 2010-11
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Powerless Children
All children because of their age are thought to be at danger for misuse, manhandle,
roughness and disregard. In any case, defencelessness can't be characterized basically by age.
In spite of the fact that age is one part, Vulnerability is additionally measured by the child's
capacity for self-protection. The inquiry that emerges is, are children equipped for securing
themselves. Can children provide for their basic needs, defend against a dangerous situation
or even recognise a dangerous situation is developing? These questions call for a redefinition
of the concept of self-protection. A child's vulnerability comes from various factors that
hinder a child's ability to function and grow normally. Hence self-protection is more about the
ability of the child to lead a healthy life within a child protection system; the ability to protect
themselves or get help from people who can provide protection. The term vulnerable children
refer to an age group that is considered at risk. But vulnerability of children is further
compounded by the following factors:
Age inside of age: Younger children, particularly those beneath the age of six, are a
great deal more subject to the protection framework.

Physical inabilities
Mental inabilities
Provocative practices: because of obliviousness or misconception of children's
psychological wellness or behavioral issues, a few individuals can get to be disturbed
or baffled and thus lash out against children or disregard them totally.
Powerlessness: happens to the circumstances and individuals that encompass the
children. On the off chance that a child is given the force by the state, family or group
to take an interest and satisfy their own particular rights and obligations they are less
defenseless.
Defencelessness: originates from the absence of protection gave by the state or folks
or group. In the event that there is no child misuse law than how is a child assume to
guard himself/herself against abuse.
Passivity: due to situation or treatment of the child. For example a child who is
enslaved or oppressed does not have the ability to seek help or protection.
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Illness
Invisible: Children who the system doesn't even recognise are highly vulnerable.
The Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) like the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000 defines
vulnerability in two categories: children in need of care and protection and children in
conflict with law.
Children needing consideration and protection are characterized as a child who:
Doesn't have a home or shelter and no means to obtain such an abode
Resides with a person(s) who has threatened to harm them and is likely to carry out
that threat, harmed other children and hence is likely to kill, abuse or neglect the
child.
Is mentally or physically handicapped, or has an illness, terminal or incurable disease

and has no one to provide and care for him/her.
Has a parent or guardian deemed unfit or unable to take care of the child.
Is an orphan, has no family to take care of him/her, or is a runaway or missing child

whose parents cannot be located after a reasonable search period.
Is being or is likely to be sexual, mentally, emotionally or physically abused, tortured

or exploited.
Is being trafficked or abusing drug substances.
Is being abused for unthinkable gains or illegal activities.
Is a victim of arm conflict, civil unrest or a natural disaster
Children in clash with law are adolescents who have professedly perpetrated a wrongdoing
under the Indian Penal Code. The ICPS additionally perceives a third classification of
children; Child in contact with law. These children are casualties of or witnesses to criminal
acts. ICPS lastly outlines that vulnerable children groups also include but are not limited to
the following: "children of potentially vulnerable families and families at risk, children of
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socially excluded groups like migrant families, families living in extreme poverty, scheduled
castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes, families subjected to or affected by
discrimination, minorities, children infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS, orphans, child
drug abusers, children of substance abusers, child beggars, trafficked or sexually exploited
children, children of prisoners, and street and working children."
UNICEF sees helpless children as the individuals who are manhandled, abused, and
disregarded. Child protection is inferred out of the obligation to react to the needs of
powerless gatherings of children. UNICEF diagrams the accompanying gatherings as
powerless: Children subjected to violence, Children in the midst of armed conflict, Children
associated with armed groups, Children affected by HIV/AIDS, Children without birth
registration, Children engaged in labour, Child engaged in marriage, Children in Conflict
with the Law, Children without Parental Care, Children used for commercial sexual
exploitation, Female children subjected to genital mutilation / cutting, and Trafficked
children.
Children's Issues
Defencelessness of children prompts and is further made by the socio-cultural, socio political
and socio-religious circumstances they are in. A child who is constrained or naturally
introduced to a circumstance or segregated gathering is at danger for misuse, disregard and
abuse. The absence of a protection framework either because of mis-execution of national
laws and programs or the unlucky deficiency of protection arrangements and enactment
additionally renders children powerless. Taking after is a discourse of different protection
issues concerning children.
Abuse and Violence

Child Sexual Abuse
Street Children
Children Living with AIDS
Child in Armed Conflict
Girl Child
Child Marriage
Children with Disabilities
CHAPTER 2
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COMPANY OUTLINE
Way back in the 1970s, Rippan Kapur, a young airline purser, was driven by the extraordinary
dream to see a day when no Indian child would be deprived of rights as basic as survival,
participation, protection and development.
In the same way as other of us, Rippan too was irritated when he saw variations in the middle
of special and underprivileged children. He would have rather not see children asking and
filling in as hirelings. Not at all like the majority of us however, he made a move.
He joined his school's social service club and read to the blind, visited children in hospitals,
held reading and writing classes for street children, and started a free dispensary at a slum the
club adopted. To raise funds for these activities, the club sold milk. It even won a shield for
the best Interact club! These qualities of resourcefulness and determination would come in
handy.
In 1979 Rippan and 6 friends started CRY with Rs. 50/- around his mother's dining table.
They felt that something needed to be done to improve the situation of the underprivileged
Indian child. Uncharacteristically, given their backgrounds and motivations, they chose not to
found a grassroots-level implementing organisation working directly with and for
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underprivileged children. They opted instead to make CRY a link between the millions of
Indians who could provide resources and thousands of dedicated people and organisations at
the grassroots-level who are struggling to function for lack of them. This "link" or enabling
position has determined CRY's strategic choices at every juncture - from the fundraising
methods it employs, to the nature of its relationship with the NGOs it partners.
All through the early, troublesome years, it was Rippan's energy and conviction that drove
CRY. He was solidly persuaded that each of us can, in our own particular little way, be
operators of progress, and when enough of us are moved to this, the effect is an enduring
improvement. All he asked of individuals was that they help CRY by doing what they were
great at. As he put it, "What I can do, I must do."
Vision
A happy, healthy and creative child whose rights are protected and honoured in a society that
is built on respect for dignity, justice and equity for all.
Mission
To enable people to take responsibility for the situation of the deprived Indian child and so
motivate them to seek resolution through individual and collective action thereby enabling
children to realise their full potential
To make individuals find their potential for activity and change
To enable peoples' collectives and movements encompassing diverse segments, to pledge
their particular strengths, working in partnership to secure, protect and honour the rights of
India's children.
People:
Ratan Batliboi
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Board Chair & Hon. Trustee, Mumbai
Rippan's junior in school, Ratan has had a long association with him till in 1991, Ratan joined
CRY as a trustee. Ever since, he has been like a steady rock for CRY.
Rajni Bakshi
Trustee, Mumbai
Rajni is a prolific writer, speaker and organiser currently working on a book, titled 'Market:
From Master to Servant', which challenges the neoliberal world view without falling for
extreme alternatives.
Praveen Kadle
Trustee & Hon. Treasurer, Mumbai
A highly respected Finance professional, Praveen brings to CRY 13 years of experience in

this area and is also CRY's Treasurer since February 2005. He is the Managing Director of
Tata Capital Ltd.
Mahnaz Curmally
Trustee, Mumbai
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A skilled writer with acknowledged strategy and consulting skills, communication experience
of over 30 years that extends across specialist PR practices like opinion mobilization,
advocacy strategy and more.
Prof. S Parasuraman
Trustee, Mumbai
Prof. Parasuraman has long been in the field of Social Sciences and is currently the Director
of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai. He is a seasoned writer with many
books to his credit.
Pervin Varma
Trustee, Mumbai
Pervin brought her ample communication expertise and special leadership skills to the fore,
when she left a career in advertising in 1990 to join CRY.
Resource Generation
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Gathering pledges or Resource Generation, as we call it in CRY, is driven with a social equity
motivation. Our essential part is to channelize open activity for child rights, as money related
and material assets and time and aptitudes. CRY's attempt is to get the greatest number of
individuals and associations included, driving an individuals' development for the rights of
India's underprivileged children.
Marketing tie-ups with corporations, events, school and college workshops, media
campaigns, signature drives, advocacy campaigns, the Internet and street theatre ensure that
people everywhere can access information on the situation of India's children and avenues to
get involved. Every fundraising venture from greeting cards to web marketing integrates
revenue objectives with advocacy for children.
CRY is almost entirely funded by individual donors who are people from every walk of life
and every corner of the country.
In addition to this, Corporate or Institutional partnerships have added more zeal to our work
and been an opportunity for the development sector (grant making) and the corporate sector
to come together and learn from each other.
Today, we have a strong and committed community of lakhs of donors across the globe who
shares our vision for the future of our children and you too can be a part of this movement.
To know more, or participate in either your individual capacity or as a corporate entity, check
out the various options available here. You may also visit any of the CRY offices and meet a
member of the CRY team to find out more.
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Volunteer Action
CRY started as a try of 7 youthful volunteers and following the time when, the soul of
volunteerism has been a hidden help of the association. Volunteerism for us doesn't mean the
unimportant use of extra human asset to help our work. To us, our volunteers are a repository
of energy, creativity and commitment. At CRY, we encourage and support our volunteers to
empower people and communities to bring about positive change - by encouraging them to
initiate action in their environment. The mutual commitment that exists between us and our
volunteers provides a free space for reaching out and a shared learning.
To know more about our volunteers and their efforts in enabling change click here or contact
the volunteer coordinators in the CRY offices nearest to you.
Improvement Support
We embrace an angel investor or a social investor way to deal with award making. That
implies we search for promising, beginning, grassroots-level NGOs and groups that work in
the rights system, tending to the main drivers of imbalance as opposed to its manifestations.
Our award making (otherwise called Development Support inside of CRY) takes after a
social equity plan. We stress on backing as a crucial medium if change is to be accomplished
on a critical scale.
With the NGOs we support, CRY defines its role as that of a partner - each infusion of funds
is accompanied by the non-financial inputs necessary to ensure their optimum utilisation and
maximum impact. Inputs in the areas of organisation building, programme development,
training, and perspective building in child rights, accountability and advocacy.
In addition, each initiative combines direct action with children, community mobilisation and
policy influencing components to maximise impact and ensure long-term viability. This is
particularly critical where both, society and government institutions are still plagued by
feudal biases of caste, gender, ethnicity and religion.
Over three decades of working with and for children, their families and communities, CRY's
grant making efforts to over 500 NGOs, has helped restore to 1,500,000 children their basic
rights to a childhood.
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Community activation is the thing that we at CRY accept is the best long haul answer for the
various reasons for neediness, hardship, misuse and misuse that shackle India's children.
Lately, we have been witnessing incredible transformation across 13000 village and slum
communities in 22 Indian states that CRY works in along with its partner initiatives.
HR & Administration
Achieving milestones of reference at CRY has just been conceivable because of the
association's capacity to consistently pull in, hold and build up a unit of capable, conferred
experts. These full-time workers shape the center of this indigenous Indian development that
today includes lakhs of people and associations in India and abroad.
Some of the areas covered at CRY Human Resources are recruitment, people development,
employee governance, performance management, institution building initiatives and policies.
Finance
Accountability and transparency are values that form the foundation of this organisation.
CRY is an Indian Public Trust, and is accountable for every rupee raised from the public at
large and every rupee disbursed to the projects we partner. The focal point is to continuously
invest, monitor and account for resources raised & disbursed.
Information technology
CRY continually attempts to streamline its assets be it in overhauling our accomplices,
contributors or in building inward limits for child rights. Data innovation base and
administration takes into consideration a mixed bag of apparatuses that backing CRY's
benefactor overhauling, data sharing, expand operations adequacy and accommodate key
inputs in frameworks and process crosswise over CRY.
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CHAPTER 3
WORK STEPS OF CRY
3.1 OUR MOVE TOWARDS
3.1.1 The Child Rights Move Towards
We've learned that the only sustainable way to make change last is to adopt what we call the
'child rights approach.'
First, by looking at childrens issues in their entirety, rather than through the silos of
education, health, child labour, child abuse, foeticide/infanticide and so on.
Then, by understanding the underlying root causes of the deprivation gender, caste,
livelihoods, displacement, geographies and the like.
Finally, mobilising each local community to find long-term solutions to these problems, by
ensuring relevant laws and policies that guarantee implementation of their rights.
Nature of Support by CRY India
CRY's' part as an empowering influence has decided our vital decisions at each crossroads from the raising money systems we utilize, to the way of our association with the NGOs we
accomplice.
Our intercessions are intended to incorporate
Direct action addressing immediate, critical needs

Community mobilisation linking child rights and local pre-dominant issues
Stringent planning, monitoring and evaluation both, financial and programmatic
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Our partnership takes the form of:

Grant making:
We organize award making premise area level investigation of child rights pointers
We recognize grassroots NGOs and groups tending to the key issues other than banding
together associations, we likewise accomplice people under The Rippan Kapur Fellowship
program that was dispatched in 1994 (it was introduced in memory of our late founder). It
seeks to enable motivated individuals starting a career in grassroots development work to
make a beginning.
Capacity Building: enable build perspective and capacity in areas of
child rights
accountability
organisation building
policy analysis
advocacy
Community assembly: We accept this is the best long haul answer for the different reasons
for neediness, hardship, misuse and misuse that compel the rights of India's children. Lately,
we have initiated a deliberate, across the nation grassroots battle in organization with our
upheld NGOs that plans to build up:
Authentic data on the situation of children - infant and child mortality, nutrition,
enrolment, availability of functioning schools of at least adequate quality, child labour,
gender and caste differences.
Workable models to achieve universal access to primary and elementary education,
healthcare, livelihoods and governance combining direct action, community mobilisation and
policy influence.
Nation-wide support from all segments of society for the policy changes including the
constitution amendment making education a fundamental right and laws relating to juvenile
justice.
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Grassroots community mobilisation aimed at ensuring universal access to equitable

education through the Common School System and implementation of policies ranging from
land rights through to the right to information.
Networking and Alliance assembling: The point of key collusions or systems is to encourage
the exchange of learning, form solidarity between accomplice associations and impact
strategy to absolutely affect the circumstance of Indian children. In short we interface with
local government and other power structures and foster alliances with state, regional, issue
interest groups
Through supporting networks, we provide a platform for partners to meet, share and learn
from each other's experiences. This empowers the reinforcing of field level activities. It
likewise goes about as a gathering for point of view expanding on large scale issues. We are
additionally some piece of numerous state level cooperations and national issue based unions
like the Campaign Against Child Labor, ECPAT, Donor Agency Network and the National
Alliance for the Fundamental Right to Education (NAFRE)
Influencing child-friendly Policies: While we consider the state to be primarily responsible
for ensuring the rights of children, we realise that we too have a role to play in impacting and
influencing government policies towards child rights. We approach this through national level
advocacy and policy influence through direct interface with ministries, legislators, alliances,
networks and coalitions and the media.
Asset Organizations: In the improvement division various associations assume a
discriminating part of being an asset center point. These associations have mastery in
different territories of advancement, aptitude that could upgrade the nature of littler, more
current activities. These resource organisations work towards building the capacities of
CRY's other development partners as well as non-CRY supported initiatives. These
organisations build capacities through innovative teaching methods, materials and training
programmes for teachers, community works among others. They also play a vital role in
policy influencing efforts at the macro level.
Nodal Agencies: While we reach out to hundreds of organisations working at the grassroots
level, there are many thousands more across the country that require support. CRY can never
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reach out to all of them. Thus, evolved the need for nodal agencies. A nodal agency is in
many ways a mini-CRY, - an organisation that offers both financial and non-financial inputs
to smaller initiatives in the same geographical region. The creation and support of nodal
agencies allows us to increase our reach at the grassroots level, without a corresponding
increase in infrastructure and personnel.
Our team of qualified professionals, from the development sector is responsible for
the selection, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of CRY-partnered NGOs.
PROCEDURE:
Criteria for supporting an activity:
Focus on children
Focus on nascent initiatives - grassroots or urban
Priority to projects in areas where no other projects / facilities exist
Vision, commitment, approach to work of the project partner
Project concepts should empower the community in which they work, the parents, and
ultimately make an irreversible change to the lives of children
Procedure for selection and appraisal
Fill or send an application as per our format covering details like the objective of the
initiative, the partner's background, experience on the field, financial details etc.
Our team screens and short lists these applications
A pre-funding, evaluation visit is conducted
An Internal discussion on the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats
Recommendation by the Development Support team at region and head office levels
Approval by our Board of Trustees
Commencement of partnership
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Observing and assessing of the initiative
Our Development Support team visits each project on a quarterly or half yearly basis.
Meetings with the staff, parents, children and the community with whom the project
works.
Assessing the project's training & information support needs as well as its
achievements.
Submission of quarterly, half yearly and annual reports.
Annual evaluation, budget and plans for the next grant period are initiated by our
team.
Audit of undertaking funds
A team of professional chartered accountants (Account Aid) assist us in financial

reviews and audits of the projects.
Along with Account Aid, we identify projects where our funds are at risk due to poor
financial management or mismanagement of funds. These high-risk projects are
closely monitored.
Frequent financial reviews on bookkeeping and maintenance of accounts are carried

out at the projects.
An external project audit is almost always mandatory at each project.
Project partners are encouraged to discuss their budgets and expenditure with their
core teams and the community with whom they work, for greater social accountability
and transparency.
Our team makes quarterly or half yearly field visits to asses progress of each project.
Disbursals to projects are made quarterly or half-yearly based on reviews done.
Governance
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In a country of the size and differences of India, disparities are profoundly established in
hundreds of years old layers of sexual orientation, position, class, ethnicity and religion.
Government approach, political vocations and discretionary achievement time after time turn
into an interwoven of "plans" went for assuaging particular vested parties. In this context, the
commitment of private altruism is insufficient in guaranteeing that the advantages of India's
expanding success are even-handedly dispersed.CRY believes that a new model of
governance - where priorities are determined by empowered communities is needed to help
overcome these vast inequities.
Today, 21st century NGOs adopt best practices in governance as a part of their strategy. At
CRY too, governance encompasses the non-negotiable values of accountability, transparency
and partnership.
We follow this approach with each individual or group that we partner, including vendors and
third party suppliers. We actively engage advocates for child rights in particular and social
justice in general, from among the educated, professional and business classes, from within
and outside India. Governance is here to stay!
With our advancement accomplices:
Determination criteria taking into account long haul method and qualities
Choice standards and procedures intended for straightforwardness
Multi-layered, participative, recorded and inspected stipend endorsing framework
Information driven, participative arranging, checking and assessment
Thorough monetary and effect parameters - procedure and result
Interior and outside reviews - monetary and automatic
Money related danger administration - preparing and subsidizing backing
Money related and limit building inputs for association building including
administration building, vote based working, execution estimation and inner
straightforwardness
With contributors, media and government across markets:
Comprehensive reporting to donors and the public

Proactive transparency
Feedback mechanisms
Values, ethics screening
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Norm and best practice bench-marking across for-profit and non-profit sectors
Active participation in development of sector norms across sectors
With employees and our board:
Mission-centric performance planning, evaluation and reward systems

Conflict of interest and ethics policies
Democratic, participative, transparent decision-making
Formal and informal feedback mechanisms and forums
Documentation and independent audit
Consistent adherence to, and investments in, building mission and values led ethos
and culture
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CHAPTER 4
CRY PROJECTS AT A MOMENTARY LOOK
4.1 Place for Human Empowerment through Education Related Services - CHEERS
Tamil Nadu
Aggregate activity for social change
Location: 15 villages within Tuticorin district, TN
Nature of Initiative: Implementing
Project holder: Sr. Assuntha
CRY support since: 2003
CHANGE ENABLED
1,071 children enrolled in school
130 birth registrations provided
130 children immunized
47 children identified with malnutrition
3 children's collectives formed

WHAT CHANGED
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Tuticorin district, in the southern coastal part of Tamil Nadu, is a fishing region, with
a significant Dalit population. Most of the fishing hamlets in Tuticorin do not have
basic services like ICDS centres, govt health and education centres, safe drinking
water and housing. Dalits are denied access to common properties such as wells.
Financial imperatives and absence of standard vocation alternatives constrain children
to drop out of schools and get assimilated in workforce from a youthful age. Dalit
children and ladies generally work in the match processing plants and other little scale
commercial ventures. These units are exploitative, unfair and unsafe. Ladies and
children are paid lower than their grown-up male partners.
Today, 77 villages have mobilised to facilitate access to better services and
livelihood options
CHEERS aims to mobilise marginalised communities. CHEERS has been successful
in achieving the purpose of ensuring children's rights while simultaneously helping
the deprived Dalit and fishing communities to solve the issues of their survival and
identity.
The association solidly has confidence in aggregate activity and dynamic investment
by the group for social change. CHEERS has tried cognizant endeavors towards
creating grassroots level group authority, including that of the Dalit ladies.
4.2 Aakar, Maharashtra

From homeless and unaccounted for, to being numberd
Location: Western Suburbs, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Project holder: Mr Milind Shankar Arondekar
CRY support since: 2011 - 2012
WHAT CHANGED
In 1993, Mr Milind Shankar Arondekar formed Aakar Mumbai to work for the
empowerment of sweeper communities, rag pickers, homeless children and other
marginalised communities in the western suburbs of Mumbai. Aakar has been
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instrumental in launching a national alliance of similar organisations like Shri Mukti

Sangathan, Apnalaya and Force.
Since 2004, Aakar has expanded its reach and has started looking into the issues of
homeless families and their children engaged in begging, at the signals in K East (Vile
Parle and Andheri) and P South (Jogeshwari and Goregaon) ward.
Today, 335 families in urban slums have benefitted from Aakar's programmes.
Aakar's work with more than 335 families has included leadership intercession for the
folks which has brought about the folks being sufficiently spurred to send their
children to class. As a consequence of this mediation, 50 children were selected in
formal school (Municipal Corporation School).
The organisation has also ensured that the homeless families received ration cards.
Additionally, Aakar addresses the issues of children who are caught by the police and
put in jail. In 2010, Aakar Mumbai was involved in the census of homeless
communities
4.3 Action for Health Education & Social Awareness (AHESAS) Delhi
When children share and express their views and ideas
Location: Kali Mata Basti slum and T Camp, West Delhi and Goyala Dairy slum,
South West Delhi
Project holder: Mr. Ram Kumar Verma
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CHANGE ENABLED
90 children organized in children's groups
2 new ICDS centres opened
3 children's groups formed

WHAT CHANGED
More than a large portion of Delhi's populace live in urban ghettos with deficient
fundamental administrations? Lion's share of the children living in these ghettos is
malnourished. IMR figures are higher than the state normal. Low vaccination scope
and dangerous sanitation conditions mirror the carelessness of civic authorities in the
territory.
In order to supplement family income, children are the daily wage earners. As a result,
slums in the area have low literacy rates and school dropouts have increased
substantially. Cases of child abuse, both physical and mental, are also reported.
Capacity building engages children, ladies and youth to activate and to request
their own rights.
Action for Health Education & Social Awareness (AHESAS) has been successful in
forming community groups and mobilising them towards realisation of child rights.
The organisation plans to conduct base line survey on socio-economic and
demographic profile of the slums, spread awareness on birth registration and
immunisation and demand regularisation of government service delivery mechanisms.
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Additionally AHESAS plans to focus on - workshops on RTE Act and to record cases
of violation of RTE, promote importance of elementary education, identify child
labour and mainstream them into education and form children's groups and adolescent
groups.
4.4 Adarsh Seva Sansthan - ASES Jharkhand

Aloof teenagers get to be change operators & build up their rights
Location: 46 slums (23 in Jamshedpur, 8 in Dhanbad, 6 in Ranchi and 6 in Bokaro),
Jharkhand
Project holder: Ms. Prabha Jaiswal
CHANGE ENABLED
6495 children enrolled in schools
4436 children immunised
45 children collectives formed

WHAT CHANGED
The slums in Jamshedpur are arranged on the outskirts of the arranged city. This
sudden outgrowth was mostly on the grounds that the block furnaces - where
transients work - were situated on the edges of the city. In spite of the fact that
hutments are presently semi-lasting, there is no acknowledgment of these inhabitants
in bigger urban improvement arranging projects.
Children are mainly engaged in child labour either in hotels, as domestic workers or
as rag pickers. The high level of legal insecurity has also led to police atrocities. This
is a situation often seen in slums in other cities and urban fringe areas too.
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From making a non-formal school, to attempting to guarantee child rights, ASES

has come long approach to reinforce a group
Adarsh Seva Sansthan (ASES) started working in the slums by starting a non-formal
school with 45 children. Now ASES work in the slums mainly aiming at ensuring
child rights through a strengthened community. The organisation has come up with
four focus areas of intervention - birth registration, child labour and drop out, basic
amenities and housing rights.
ASES has possessed the capacity to assemble the basti board of trustees and ladies and
children gatherings to address issues in the ghettos. The advisory group and the ladies
gatherings are dynamic in conveying essential offices to the ghetto. The children bunches Bal Sangathans - are occupied with enrolment drives. They have likewise been dealing with
the ghetto recovery arrangement at the ground level with basti boards.
4.5 ADIVASI VIKAS TRUST (AVT), GUJARAT

Marginalised no more, a life of dignity awaits them
Location: Narmada district, Gujarat
Project holder: Ishwarbhai Pavar
CHANGE ENABLED
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WHAT CHANGED
The adivasi and tribal groups in Gujarat are frequently underestimated and let alone
for different government plans. Accordingly, they are confronted with a few issues,
for example, child movement, nourishment shakiness, unhealthiness among ladies and
children, absence of vaccination, poor enrolment in schools, child trafficking and
child marriage.
In September 2011, Ishwarbhai Pavar formed Adivasi Vikas Trust (AVT) to work for
tribals in the area and to specifically address some of these issues. The organisation
believes in equality and development of the tribal community.
Today thanks AVT's endeavors, these groups can anticipate an existence of pride
and sense of pride.
AVT has added to a comprehension of changing health conduct design, regular
malady example, winning myths and misguided judgments in the region. They work
with key organizations and the group in the territory, for example, - government
workplaces, political pioneers, private shop proprietors and instructors to concentrate
on tribal improvement plans.
As an organization AVT has been able to address the various issues of child migration,
food insecurity, malnutrition among women and children, immunisation, school
enrolments, child trafficking and child marriage.
4.6 ALWAR MEWAT INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

(AMIED), RAJASTHAN
Education that leads to socio-economic development
Location: Alwar district, Rajasthan

Project holder: Noor Mohammed
CHANGE ENABLED
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4,098 children in school

667 children in enrolled/re-enrolled in school
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WHAT CHANGED
Education plays a significant role in the socio-economic development and cultural
enrichment of the society and individual.
At the point when there is equivalent open door offered to all areas of the general public regardless of economic wellbeing, class, station, religion and sexual orientation - we can
guarantee non-oppressive dispersion of instructive increases, and learning does not so much
stay bound to just a favored few.
Today, innovative education programmes have resulted in increased engagement with
children in the community.
Mr Noor Mohammad was one of the founders of Alwar Mewat Institute of Education and
Development (AMIED) in the year 2000. He initiated innovative and experimental
educational programmes in the rural areas.
AMIED initially worked in 3 villages of Umren and Ramgarh blocks of Alwar district.
Currently AMIED works in 115 villages in three blocks for Children's Right to Education.
The core strategy of this organisation is community mobilisation and engagement with
children, through which they believe they can bring change in the lives of the children.
4.7 AMBREEN BASHIR KANROO JAMMU KASHMIR

A hope for rehabilitation for children affected by militancy
Location: 5 villages of Baramulla district, J&K
Nature of Initiative: Fellow
Project holder: Ms. Ambreen Bashir Kanroo
CHANGE ENABLED
466 children enrolled in school
42 children organized in children's groups
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WHAT CHANGED
The families in Baramulla locale are undermined and unfavorably influenced by the
furnished clash between the administration and aggressor bunches. Individuals face
genuine infringement of human rights and children are at consistent danger of misuse
from military.
These areas are severely affected by earthquakes. The villagers have no access to
health centres. ICDS centres are also defunct in the area. There any no primary
schools located nearby. Additionally, the women in the region are engaged in labour.
Today, the group is sharpened about instructive open doors for girls and on
reinforcing children groups
Ambreen Bashir Kanroo, a CRY Fellow, works with children and widows in
Baramulla district. She knows the socio-economic and political context of the region
and has an understanding on the impact of conflicts on women and children.
Some of her focus areas are - baseline data collection on children, community
sensitisation towards rehabilitation of disabled children, capacity building workshops
for ICDS & ASHA workers, liaison with the government administration, preparing
case studies on orphan children, awareness on birth registration and nutrition of
children and formation of children collectives.
4.8 APNE AAP WOMEN'S COLLECTIVE, MAHARASHTRA

Moving past an existence in the sex trade
Location: Falkland road, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Project holder: Ms. Manju Vyas
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WHAT CHANGED
Falkland Street is known as the red light range of Mumbai. The territory is loaded
with houses of ill-repute, where a few ladies and children get included in the sex
exchange, infrequently for eras. The difficulties are numerous - the rights of youthful,
juvenile girls, youth getting into the matter of pimps, drug peddlers.
Apne Aap Women's Collective is working in the Khetwadi and Kamathipura red light
areas of Mumbai to address some of these issues. The organisation has been able to
form Self Help Groups (SHGs) of sex workers from Khetwadi area, through which it
creates awareness on issues of health, education of their children.
Today, a rights-based methodology has guaranteed that these sex specialists are
putting resources into their children's prospects far from the trade.
The organisation has initiated a centre called 'Sparrow' for young girls and daughters
between the age group of 6 to 21 years. Apne Aap provides day care centres for
children and also provides health care and nutrition programmes for children.They
also ensure enrolment of children in government schools.
Apne Aap Women's Collective has the willingness and desire to work on right based
issues of children of sex workers. Apne Aap networks with other NGOs in Mumbai to
address the issues of women with the local authorities and government. They also
work with the women to motivate them to move out of the sex trade.
4.9 ZONE NETWORKING AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES (ANANDI),

GUJARAT
The guarantee of value education sends these children to class
Location: Panchmahal and Dahod districts, Gujarat
Project holder: Ms. Neeta Hardikar
CHANGE ENABLED
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WHAT CHANGED
Dahod and Panchmahal districts are two tribal dominated districts in Gujarat that are
recognised as the most backward in the state. The tribals here are mostly from the
Barias, Nayakas and Rathwas communities.
Area Networking and Development Initiatives (ANANDI) was set up to support 20
villages in these two districts with a focus on quality education for children of these
tribal communities. Today, ANANDI also closely works with adolescent girls and
their development.
Thanks to a proper learning environment, these children have entry to a decent
quality instruction to prepare them forever.
ANANDI's engagement with children started with providing informal, but yet, quality
education in the Maliya area during an earthquake. Later the strong sangathans
empowered by ANANDI started taking up child related issues like MDM, providing
supplementary food at Anganwadi, monitoring of PDS and so on.
ANANDI is sensitive to all the existing issues related to child rights in the tribal
culture, and very well recognises the complexities of child labour in agricultural
sector and poverty and its manifestations on vulnerable children.
4.10 ASSOCIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH ACTION IN RURAL

AREAS (ADHAR) ORISSA
Tribal groups get to be mindful of bigger formative issues
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Location: 64 villages in Loisingha, Turaikela, and Saintala Blocks of Balangir

District, Odisha
Project holder: Mr. Uma Sankar Sahu
CHANGE ENABLED
10,961 children enrolled in schools
72 children identified & registered as malnourished
20 child labour free villages

WHAT CHANGED
Bolangir is in the western part of Odisha. The central and state governments have
launched numerous schemes in the region - Antyodaya Anna Yojana, the food-forwork programme and the National Family Benefit Scheme. Yet, there have hardly
been any improvements in the conditions on the ground.
Children in the zone are occupied with exercises like dairy cattle and goat crowding,
earth work, gathering of minor timberland items and kindling. The real issues the
individuals here face are - discriminatory conveyance of area, dry spell and movement
and uprooting. The large scale migration has resulted in an additional problem of
HIV/AIDS among the migrants.
Today, the people in 12 towns are honed about sexual introduction fissure and the
prerequisite for focused headway issues
Association for Development and Health Action in Rural zones (ADHAR) started by
executing welfare programs for tribal groups in Bargarh and Bolangir locale. Since
origin, ADHAR has bolstered for rights of landless workers, transients, peripheral
ranchers and essential NTFP collectors.
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The organisation collaborates and co-ordinates with government systems, sensitises

the community, advocates policies to benefit the Dalit children and women, helps in
the development of the child rights movement, works for ensuring the rights of People
with Disabilities and raises public awareness on women's empowerment and gender
equity.
4.11 ASTITWA SAMAJIK SANSTHAN (ASS) UTTAR PRADESH

Amongst the ladies, another certainty and initiative qualities develop
Location: 7 Villages of Purkaji Block of Muzzaffarnagar district, UP
Project holder: Ms. Rehna Abid
CHANGE ENABLED

WHAT CHANGED
The overall status of women and children in Muzzaffarnagar district is deplorable.
While there is partial availability of pre-natal and ante-natal care, options for
supplementary nutrition are not available.
In addition, ICDS centres are inactive. Malnutrition is widely prevalent. The local
communities are ignorant about services from PHC, ANM and ICDS. There are also
instances of girl child abuse and gender discrimination in the villages.
Community preparation and individuals' developments have been instrumental in
decreasing sexual orientation and religious roughness
Astitwa Samajik Sansthan (ASS) started working on women atrocities. Over the years
their strategy shifted to a Child Rights approach. ASS has a good understanding on
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dominant child rights issues in the area. The project has been instrumental in
community mobilisation and people's movements to reduce gender and religious
violence and take up holistic child rights issues.
The organisation aims at achieving 100% immunisation of children and pregnant
women, full birth registration, ensuring sustenance of health and education facilities
and to address women's issues on
4.12 AURANGA GRAMIN VIKAS SAMITI - AGVS JHARKHAND

A sensible utilization of regular assets helps a territory mitigate drought
Location: 15 villages in Latehar district, Jharkhand
Project holder: Mr. Bhola Singh Prasad
CHANGE ENABLED
WHAT CHANGED
In Latehar locale a few territories are timetable 5 regions, as an after effect of which
the Gram Sabha has the ability to settle on town advancement issues. Be that as it
may, the 'Jharkhand Panchayati Raj Adhiniyam 2001' acquired by the government
hampers the working of the Gram Sabha. A little gathering of individuals controls the
assets and generation in the zone.
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The working classes are mostly from backward communities and are exploited
economically, politically and socially. Caste and gender based discrimination are
common. Child rights violations include rampant child labour, child marriages,
malnourishment and sexual abuse during migration. Infant and child mortality are
high.
Solid leadership, alongside group based staff and volunteers help local people
fortify their voice
Auranga Gramin Vikas Samiti (AGVS) is a result of the struggle of people of Palamu
region against the construction of big dam on Auranga River. Primarily made up of
community-based volunteers, it is aimed at strengthening the Gram Sabha to take
decisions about forest and other natural resources as well as encourage youth to
actively participate in the political process.
AGVS envisions an educated, self reliant, equitable and just society. Towards this
end, they have set themselves the mission of educating, creating awareness,
organising, mobilising and empowering the Adivasis, Dalits, farmers, youth, women,
children and Gram Sabha.
4.13 BAHUJAN SAMAJIK TRUST GUJRAT

Underestimated groups activate for their rights
Location: 65 villages (30 direct CR intervention villages and 35 advocacy villages) of
Gondal, Kothlasangani, Rajkot and Lodhika block of Rajkot district, Gujarat
Project holder: Mr. Jayantibhai Nathabhai Rathod
CHANGE ENABLED
2 new ICDS centres opened

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WHAT CHANGED
Extensive scale standing segregation is predominant in diverse parts of Gujarat and
the Saurashtra locale is no special case. Dalits experience oppressive practices in
every one of their cooperations with the standard society. Children are the most
exceedingly awful influenced.
Migration serves as a hindrance to education as parents generally take their children
with them while searching for labour. Child marriage is widely prevalent to protect
the children against exploitation. Gender manifestations in Dalit community make
women particularly vulnerable.
Today, the individuals have taken an initiative part in the area rights
development, constructing a sub-provincial organization together development
The Bahujan Samajik Trust (BST) tries to make a skillet Saurashtra development of
every single minimized segment. BST's vision is towards assembling the Dalits to
engage them to battle for their rights and make a situation helpful towards
acknowledging child rights.
The organisation's strength lies in an inclusive vision, the quest to maintain high
levels of transparency, committed staff and leadership, continuous efforts towards
improving gender and regional representation in the leadership, good rapport with the
community and good facilitation skills for promoting people-based organisations.
4.14 BAL VIKAS DHARA (BVD) DELHI

A community takes responsibility for rights issues
Location: 12 slum areas in the South West District, Delhi
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Project holder: Dr. Bharat Singh

CHANGE ENABLED
1 new ICDS centre opened

WHAT CHANGED
In the Kusumpur and Masoodpur zones, sex segregation, child sexual misuse,
aggressive behavior at home and nourishment frailty endure. Essential Healthcare
Centers are non-practical in the zone, which brings about disappointment in the
wellbeing conveyance framework. Dispensary administrations and accessibility of
medicines are unpredictable.
Additionally, lack of employment opportunities, poor school infrastructure, lack of
coordination between parents and teachers, are some major issues in this area. The
community has a limited understanding of and exposure on child rights and its
violations.
Today, there are certain endeavors to address the issues of the roaming groups and
ensure fundamental rights of the children.
Bal Vikas Dhara (BVD) basically lives up to expectations in the regions of
mindfulness era among the groups, non-formal instruction, and professional ability
building for the pre-adult girls, self improvement gatherings and mahila panchayat.
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The association advocates for incorporation of ladies being developed endeavors to

change the lives of children.
BVD has been successful in building a community perspective on the need for
education. They also focus on - implementation of RTE and sensitisation on health
issues like immunisation and institutional deliveries. BVD has mobilized the
community for formation of youth groups and Shrishti - a child rights activist group.
4.15 BAL SAKHA, ASSAM

A vulnerable group can anticipate protection
Location: Dibrugarh district, Assam
Project holder: Dr. Aditya Chatterjee
CHANGE ENABLED
101 births registered
74 mothers benefited through the NRHM scheme
88 dropout students were mainstreamed

WHAT CHANGED
Assam is the passage toward the north eastern piece of India. The major monetary
source in the locale is from tea manors, which brings out different clashes inside and
outside the group. This outcomes in inert health establishments, ICDS, poor monetary
state of families and clash inside of the administration for execution of every one of
these frameworks. Accordingly, child rights issues are influenced.
The project holder Dr. Aditya Chatterjee had a CRY Rippan Kapur Fellowship to
document 'the status of the child rights in the state of Assam'. He had already worked
with Praxis and Bal Sakha Bihar and the fellowship gave him the opportunity to get
an idea of child rights status in the state. Bal Sakha was then registered in 2009.
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The endeavors in living up to expectations with the tea estate unions has brought
about noteworthy mindfulness on child rights issues
The main aim of Bal Sakha is to rehabilitate children living in vulnerable condition
and work for implementation of Juvenile Justice Act in Assam. Their work has
resulted in more births being registered, more mothers benefiting from government
schemes and less dropouts in schools.
Bal Sakha uses community level interaction and mobilisation to create awareness
about child rights issues and protection issues. They use media advocacy as well as
engage with the unions, workers and with and tea management authorities to achieve
their goals.
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4.16. BIHAR LOK ADHIKAR MANCH (BLAM) THROUGH DISHA VIHAR, BIHAR
A conviction the Right to Education transforms into a development
Location: Bihar
Nature of Initiative: Network/ Alliance
Project holder: Avey Kumar Akela
CHANGE ENABLED
11,124 children enrolled in schools

WHAT CHANGED
In 2001, CRY and NAFRE felt that an alliance was needed in Bihar to broad base the
campaign for the fundamental Right to Education. Thus in August 2003, the Bihar
Lok Adhikar Manch (BLAM) formally came into being.
BLAM was formed with an aim to spread the movement for education in Bihar. It
began with the active participation of 40 people representing 14 districts in the state.
Today, a rights-based methodology is tenderly pushing the underprivileged
individuals of Bihar towards a more stately life.
BLAM has solid conviction in child rights and UNCRC. They accept that to mediate
on child rights issues bigger financial political and social issues should be tended to.
BLAM accepts that to advance value in the public eye value in instruction is likewise
critical.
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BLAM also believes that unless the right to work is respected as a fundamental right
the other fundamental rights provided by the Constitution of India will be unable to
meet the dignity of the people. The people in BLAM have strong backgrounds in
social movements and a clear political understanding of issues.
4.17 BUNIYADI ADHIKAR ANDOLAN GUJARAT (BAAG) - THROUGH GSS,

GUJARAT
Voices meet up to guarantee child rights
Location: Gujarat
Nature of Initiative: Network/ Alliance
Project holder: Mr. Dinesh Sanghvi
WHAT CHANGED
A few development activists got together to address the current political and social
situation in Gujarat. Thus BAAG was born.
The role of the alliance is to ensure child rights, advocacy of regional and local issues,
undertaking research, documentation and publication.
Today, thanks to a critical mass, issues, for example, child rights can be tended to
by means of proper gatherings.
BAAG uses sub-regional and regional networks, CBOs, voluntary groups and likeminded civil society organisations to converge. These form a critical mass, to then
address and change the course of the entrenched political and economic situation.
4.18 CSD - CENTRE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT MANIPUR

A community reacts to ensure the central rights of children
Location: 10 villages in Imphal west district and 9 wards of Moreh, in Chandel
district, Manipur
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Project holder: Mr. Nobokishor Singh

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CHANGE ENABLED

WHAT CHANGED
The towns at the foothills of the Senapati District have groups like SC, ST and OBC
living respectively. Horticulture is the principle occupation yet not very many
individuals own territory to develop. The vast majority are occupied with sloppy area
exercises like street development, paddy husking, creature farming and agarbati
generation.
The area lacks educational facilities as there is a dearth of government institutions.
Most of the families are heavily indebted to local moneylenders. Children of this
region are witnesses, survivors and direct victims of armed conflict, drug addiction
and HIV infection and AIDS death. Violence towards children in the family including
sexual violence, is becoming endemic.
Today, the individuals living with HIV and AIDS are united to frame weight
gatherings and raise their requests
Since initiation, Center for Social Development (CSD) has been taking a shot at
particular issues of group improvement, medication misuse, HIV/AIDS in the State.
CSD is included in a few associations with different NGOs and associations
concentrating on nearby issues with a typical work motivation.
The organisation has initiated an NGO Support Unit to identify and build
understanding and skill of the CBOs / POs and NGOs. They have made significant
contributions in creating people's platforms and forums for dialogue and sharing. CSD
is a pioneer in the pace-building efforts in Manipur and is an active partner of the
NGO network in the state.
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4.19 CHALE CHALO ORISSA

Tending to local issues helps them build up their rights
Location: 12 villages (existing) and 16 villages (new) of Khariar and Boden blocks,
Nuapada district, Odisha
Project holder: Mr. Ranjit Kumar Swain
CHANGE ENABLED

WHAT CHANGED
78% of the populace in Nuapada locale live underneath the neediness line. Area
holding and area appropriation are skewed and this has brought about the
underestimated groups being distanced from their property. The increasing use of
machinery in agriculture too has adversely affected the livelihood of tribal agricultural
workers and has led to greater indebtedness.
Land alienation, forest depletion, high level of indebtedness and uneconomic
agriculture have forced many tribal families to migrate. The migration results in
children dropping out of schools. A large number of children are engaged in economic
activities as well as household chores. Malnutrition and child marriages are rampant.
Sensitisation at community level and backing at administration level has enabled
community on rights
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Chale Chalo is currently working among the tribal and fishing communities in 12
villages. Their goal is to empower marginalised communities to achieve basic human
rights and entitlements through sustainable development practices. The organisation
has initiated preliminary activities for mobilising the children in fishing communities
for their rights.
In addition, Chale Chalo has been working with the poor for promotion of sustainable
livelihoods. They aim to create a Child Rights Forum in 12 villages, advocacy
campaign to improve community facilities and infrastructure, direct action
programme with children and a community radio programme.
4.20 CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN GOA (CRG), GOA

Grassroots promotion serves to grow a mindfulness development
Location: North Goa, Goa
Project holder: Nishta Desai
CRY support since: 2012-2013
WHAT CHANGED
Child Rights in Goa (CRG) was framed in 2006 and has four unmistakable however
interconnected territories of work - child strengthening, battle, child protection and
promotion on child rights issues, and also documentation and examination. It lives up
to expectations at the grass roots and behaviors backing on the premise of this
experience.
Broadly, it carries out five kinds of activities and programmes in North Goa to ensure
right to protection and right to participation for children. CRG also runs Child
Activity Centres to prevent school dropouts and to enrol children who have not been
to school.
Today, thanks to their mindfulness endeavors, children in 30 schools of North Goa
are mindful of their rights.
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A Child Protection Cell has set up by CRG which is a multi-disciplinary team to

provide assistance to child victims and to review and recommend changes in existing
procedures and provisions of law.
Children's meetings - BAL Melas - are sorted out to upgrade support of children of both
formal and non formal schools. They likewise work for attention to the folks and group about
child rights, child misuse and so on by organising group mindfulness meetings.
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CHAPTER 5
CONCLUSION
Did you know consistently child in India is malnourished (NFHS-III, 2005-06). 11.8%
children in India are occupied with some type of child work (NFHS-III).National Dropout
Rate at the Elementary Level is over 40% (DISE, 2011-12). Nearly 45% girls get married
before the age of eighteen years (NFHS-III). Only 54% children received full immunization
(DLHS-III, 2007-08). 47 out of every 1000 live births do not complete their first year of life
(SRS, 2011)
Children constitute over 33% of India's populace of a 1.21 billion but they are just seen as the
'future era' of monetarily contributing grown-ups and not as residents of today. The CRY
study, 'Status Report on Child Rights in India: An Overview of the Past Decade' demonstrates
an extremely horrid circumstance where current issues concerning children are highlighted.
Children's issues remain to a great extent imperceptible and de-organized as they don't
constitute the vote bank; they don't figure in appointive results an issue, for example,
swelling could represent the moment of truth an administration yet the way that consistently
child in the nation is malnourished does not have such an effect on the course or outcome of
decisions and governments.
It is our view that children continue to be exploited and abused because the State and people
do not address childrens issues comprehensively and effectively.
In Mumbai, for instance, the standard response to child labourers is one of 'rescue', rather
than looking at the poverty that sent children to labour in the first place. Only 'rescuing'
children, often will not help. What is needed is proper rehabilitation - including bridge
courses for children to make up in years of lost schooling, ensuring good quality free
government schools, good backup in health services and adequate employment and housing
for the adults.
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Children are naturally linked to their families. Thus children's rights are intrinsically linked
with the realisation of human rights in general. The supply chain of cheap child labour can
only be eradicated if its root causes are also addressed - causes like social and economic
marginalisation, poverty, displacement, migration, lack of a coherent policy towards quality
education for all etc. All these are situations that force children into work.
Children work mainly to help their families because the adults do not have appropriate
employment and adequate income. Children also work because there is a demand for cheap
labour in the market. Poor and bonded families, succumbing to the demand, often "sell" their
children to contractors who promise lucrative jobs in the cities and the children end up being
exploited. Many run away and find a life on the streets.
Unless child labour is banned in agriculture, eradicating it will remain a pipe dream.
Agriculture and allied work accounts for as many as nearly 70% of India's 17 million child
labourers, but is not included in the list of 16 occupations and 65 processes in the Child
Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 2006.
Each time a new layer of society gains confidence to question and thus contributes to
sharpening of what constitutes human values and daily practices of actualizing the new
tradition; there is discovery of one more layer of domination that needs correction. In this
instance it is the domination of the child by the adults. The liberty to treat children with
authority by the adults comes from the understanding that children are less than adults and
that the adults have a duty as well as a responsibility to control and discipline children.
Therefore in the best interest of children adults can use force and violence to correct them.
Thus the act of violence and exercise of power of the adult over the child is repeatedly
justified. It is seldom regarded that children are individuals in their own right and equal to
adults.
This happens even in a family situation. Children are subject to insults and are not heard quite
inadvertently by adults. Punishing a child is seen as parental responsibility. The moment there
is defiance of the child it is construed as being disrespectful. And so, the child is further
admonished, very much like in the context of the school. Having no options children accept
this as a reality and learn to live with it. The challenge is really in protecting children and
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making them feel secure and at the same time enhancing the quality of relationship between
the adult and the child. For, in principle, family as an institution should be the best place for
any child.
Indeed the questioning of domination of the adults, say adultarchy over the child is part of
this unfolding of the human spirit and in favor of respecting a culture of empathy and
nonviolence that should govern the relationship between adults and children in a cultured
society.
The difference in this endeavor is that those who are dominated are children and are
especially vulnerable due to their inherent powerlessness in an adult society. What
distinguishes children from adults is that their capacities are evolving and so would require
greater care and protection. It is in the ambience of non-violence and respect that they fully
develop to becoming confident individuals in their own right. They need tremendous support
of the adults to be heard. They are entirely dependent on adults and thus in no position to
charter any independent path without adult support. The answer to the violence on children is
adults and not resistance of children.
This is indeed a challenge. The world of adults must acquire the unique capabilities to pay
special attention to have childrens opinions heard and respect the dignity and rights of every
child in every circumstance. Children are as human and sensitive as adults are, if not more.
They need to be secure with a caring atmosphere and this is an adult responsibility. Practicing
non-violence as a highest form of culture begins with seeing children as children. It is
necessary for adults to behave with them in a manner that they are not subject to violence and
hurt of any kind. In a way fostering such a culture will develop adults as responsible adults
who would in turn be vigilant and question those that are breaking the norms of respecting
childhood. In so doing inculcate the values of non-violence in children; adults cannot preach
non-violence when perpetrating violence.
What is required therefore is to build skills of all in the society, cutting across regions,
cultures, classes, officials, school teachers, care givers and adults at large to engage with
children as equals, listen to them and address their concerns in a manner that does not hurt or
humiliate them.
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However, it is clear that while the initiatives implemented still need to be perfected, they are
within the vein of improvement. Anecdotal evidence from Rajasthan (Burra, 2006) suggests a
20 per cent reduction in the incidence of migration amongst children and a corresponding
increase in school enrolment and retention by 25 percent as an impact of the NREGS. A
longitudinal research on childhood poverty (Young Lives) in Andhra Pradesh finds that
programme registration reduces the probability of a boy entering child labour by 13.4%
points and programme take up reduces it for girls by 8.19% points.
CRY hopes to continue on its mass awareness drives like the campaign conducted around
anti-child Labour Day, so that both the government as well as the people learn to be more
making sure that children anywhere are not exploited, that they are treated as persons with
rights and not just as properties of the caregivers.
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PROLOGUE TO CHILD RIGHTS..................................................................................................

4.18 CSD - CENTRE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT MANIPUR...........................................

PROLOGUE TO CHILD RIGHTS

Right to Development: Children have the right to all forms of development:

Emotional, Mental and Physical. Emotional development is fulfilled by proper care

Law and Policies

Laws and Policies

Laws and Policies

Long term care until

Skills and Training

Understanding the Variation

What is children ratio in India?

Gender of Indias Children *

State shrewd dissemination of Children's populace *

State astute and Gender insightful circulation of Children's populace *

Male Female Childrens Ratio *

The Child gender Ratio in the country has declined.

Gender wise Adult V/S Children *

Gender wise distribution of Rural - Urban Children Population *

Age distribution of Rural & Urban population *

Comparison of Adult and Children population in Rural and Urban India *

* Data Source: Census of India 2010-11

great deal more subject to the protection framework.

Doesn't have a home or shelter and no means to obtain such an abode

Is mentally or physically handicapped, or has an illness, terminal or incurable disease

Is an orphan, has no family to take care of him/her, or is a runaway or missing child

Is being or is likely to be sexual, mentally, emotionally or physically abused, tortured

Is being trafficked or abusing drug substances.

Is being abused for unthinkable gains or illegal activities.

Is a victim of arm conflict, civil unrest or a natural disaster

Abuse and Violence

Board Chair & Hon. Trustee, Mumbai

A highly respected Finance professional, Praveen brings to CRY 13 years of experience in

Direct action addressing immediate, critical needs

Our partnership takes the form of:

Grassroots community mobilisation aimed at ensuring universal access to equitable

Focus on nascent initiatives - grassroots or urban

Priority to projects in areas where no other projects / facilities exist

Vision, commitment, approach to work of the project partner

Procedure for selection and appraisal

Our team screens and short lists these applications

A pre-funding, evaluation visit is conducted

An Internal discussion on the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats

Approval by our Board of Trustees

Observing and assessing of the initiative

Submission of quarterly, half yearly and annual reports.

Audit of undertaking funds

A team of professional chartered accountants (Account Aid) assist us in financial

Frequent financial reviews on bookkeeping and maintenance of accounts are carried

An external project audit is almost always mandatory at each project.

Disbursals to projects are made quarterly or half-yearly based on reviews done.

With contributors, media and government across markets:

Comprehensive reporting to donors and the public

With employees and our board:

Mission-centric performance planning, evaluation and reward systems

1,071 children enrolled in school

130 birth registrations provided

130 children immunized

47 children identified with malnutrition

3 children's collectives formed

4.2 Aakar, Maharashtra

instrumental in launching a national alliance of similar organisations like Shri Mukti