Right to a Family

Being a volunteer of the news track team, the piece of news in the following lines caught my interest stemming from the belief that every child deserves a happy childhood and caring family. It is time that process of adoption becomes transparent, easy, and protects the rights of the child!

Read on…

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has developed an online system where applicants can register and select a child for adoption. The Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System(CARINGS), designed by the National Informatics Centre, is to serve as the medium for sharing information about children up for adoption and their photographs. The process will first be implemented for domestic users before its extension to the international users.

Benefits:
• Simpler process which obviates paperwork.
• Interested parents will not have to wait for an inordinate amount of time (Currently it takes a minimum of 6 months to adopt a child).

This move emphasises on the concern for the welfare of the under –eighteens who have not been fortunate to be associated with their biological parents, one of their basic rights.

Reference: The Indian Express, 7th October, 2010

Link: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/adoption-to-become-easier-ministry-to-put-i/693820/


Sushmita Barua
CRY Volunteer

Volunteers being Changemakers

Read this article in Hindu one of the premiere national dailies to find out more about how CRY volunteers like YOU are being changemakers in different parts of the country. some of you might just find your names in print ... :)


http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-nxg/article878961.ece

Not so glad that you were born

This is a story
Not of any girl next door.
She wanted to read
But could study no more.

Alas, poor was her family
Finances were all sore
Dad was idle sans a job
And mom did other houses' chore

Why to teach a girl at all
We don't feel no need for that
All you should is help mom in work
On her face, dad told her flat

Mom wanted her girl to learn
Child to be someone in life
Respect, name, fame to earn
And not just spend her days in strife

But all she had was thorns in store
School was a distant dream to seek
Married she was, a girl she bore
Whose future was no less bleak

And thus the story starts afresh
Not of any girl next door.
She wanted so much to read
But, as they say, she could study no more.

Chirag Jain (IIM-Calcutta)