What: At Child Rights and You, the Volunteer Action division enables public action for child rights. Our main programs are building locality based public action groups and initiating issue based campaigns.
Target audience: Underpriviledged children and communities in rural and urban India
Focus areas: Child rights and human rights
Approach: At CRY, we do not believe in charity. Nor do we run schools, orphanages or dispensaries. Instead we partner grassroots-level NGOs working with children, their parents and communities. 29 years of working with and for children have taught us that resources have little to do with it. In over 2500 villages and slums across 18 States, we have witnessed
transformational change happening. All it takes is communities becoming aware of their rights and coming together to ensure them. Not just by enrolling children in schools but by addressing the root causes that keep them hungry, illiterate, exploited and abused. Causes like gender, caste, livelihoods and displacement.
Adopt a Locality: If you have a leader in you and the urge to bring about change, initiate or join a group in your locality and advocate for the protection and fulfillment of child rights by ensuring that government services in the locality are in place and are adhering to quality norms and in the absence of the services create an environment to demand the same.
Be a Campaigner: If you want to participate in building a voice for child rights thats is loud enough to reach our policy makers prompting them to take action for child rights, join our band of vibrant volunteers on their fact finding initiatives on various child rights and human rights issues.
Be an Intern: If you are a student (minimum graduate college level) and have an interest in deepening your theoretical knowledge and can contribute to developing a more profound understanding on child rights towards value adding to our issue based campaigns, apply for an internship with Volunteer Action at CRY in Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi. This would be an opportunity for you to learn various advocacy, campaign, research and networking related skills. (Minimum time commitment - 4 to 6 weeks)
Contact us at any of the locations where we work at http://www.cry.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html
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