Child Rights and You (CRY)

CRY is and Indian based organisation working to restore the basic rights of health, education and to amplify the voice of children. CRY believes that children are citizens in their own right, entitled to the full spectrum of human rights. CRY’s mission is to “To enable people to take responsibility for the situation of the deprived Indian child and so motivate them to confront the situation through collective action thereby giving the child and themselves an opportunity to realise their full potential.”  CRY ensures through its monitoring systems that the money is optimally deployed and impacts the lives of children. CRY  invests in the child rights approach with the belief that processes emanating from it will not only ensure children their due rights but do so in such a manner that enables their communities to take ownership of these interventions, ultimately leading to self management.

The Hope Foundation

The Hope Kolkata Foundation (HKF) was established in February 1999 for the protection and development of children on the street and in difficult circumstances. HKF’s mission is “to provide sustainable development for the underprivileged and vulnerable population with special focus on children and person living in difficult circumstances by acting as facilitator through community development through provision of education, vocational training, health awareness and service, shelter, nutrition, counselling, recreation, rescue & rehabilitation, repatriation, awareness on rights, emergency relief, capacity building, fund raising through socio, economic and spiritual development regardless of race, sex, religion or politics to achieve goals.” In June 2007 Hope Foundation was awarded the prestigious Bharat Nirman Award. Previous recipients of this award include Mother Theresa & the Dalai Lama. Hope is the first organisation from outside India to be presented with this honour. 

CINI Asha is the urban unit of Child In Need Institute (CINI) which was established in 1989. CINI Asha’s mission is "to improve the quality of life of the socially disadvantaged children living in the urban areas through education, health and social mobilisation." CINI Asha works to bring children abandoned on the streets, slum dwellers, children of sex workers and child labourers into school and to provide jobs for these children after graduating from school. In addition, CINI Asha works towards spreading awareness of the problems and issues facing street children among the middle class urban population, and also to increase awareness of violence towards girls and women, and the dangers of HIV and AIDS.