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… Origin of CRY: In 1979, seven friends made a simple decision to change the lives of India’s underprivileged children. Led by a 25 year airline purser, Rippan Kapur, Rs. 50 and a dining table as their resources and a belief that each one can make a difference in a child’s life, they aimed to enable all children to realize their full potential. This was how CRY began … (who we are 1/2).
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Who we are 2/2: … Unusually, the founders of CRY chose not to fund a grassroots-level implementing organisation working directly with and for underprivileged children.
Instead, they opted to make CRY a channel or a link between the millions of individuals who could provide resources and the thousands of dedicated fieldworkers who were struggling to function for lack of them. They saw their role as « enablers » and in so doing created an institution that is a unique model of a community movement that takes responsibility for its weakest and most vulnerable members and motivates and catalyses change on their behalf.
Today, CRY is a peoples’ movement for the rights of India’s children encompassing diverse segments, each pledging their particular strengths, working in partnership for their common cause. (full text).