CRY - Child Rights and You is an Indian NGO that believes in every child’s right to a childhood - to live, learn, grow and play. For 35 years, CRY and its partners have worked with parents and communities to ensure Lasting Change in the lives of underprivileged children.
CRY’s vision is 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.
CRY’s role is that of an enabler between two groups of people – the development organizations working for child rights at the grassroots level and people who come together for child rights.
CRY has adopted The Child Rights Approach, the sustainable way to make change by looking at children’s issues in their entirety, rather than through the silos of education, health, child labour, child abuse, foeticide/infanticide and so on; by understanding the underlying root causes of the deprivation – gender, caste, livelihoods, displacement, geographies and the like and by mobilising each local community to find long-term solutions to these problems, by ensuring relevant laws and policies that guarantee implementation of their rights.
Established in 1979, CRY has changed the lives of over 20 lakh children, by supporting 200+ grassroots initiatives across 5,000 communities in 23 states of India.