A hope to bring a positive change

This is first post from our group; we are a bunch of students at IIT Kharagpur working as CRY Volunteers. We started in March 2010. It feels really good to join an internationally renowned NGO. We find articles on its achievements in national dailies regularly; we see people talking about CRY; these entire factors invite one to join this great NGO. Our induction session infused the vigor required to carry it forward. We started chalking out our plans. We have students from various fields like science, engineering, MBA and Law in our team. The mixed group helped us find ‘unity in diversity’. We decided to work upon issues related to Mid-Day Meal, BPL card and for making our campus disabled friendly.

After long sessions of discussions, we stated for our surveys with a set format of questionnaire with us. We had a feeling to changing the world with blow of our society. We thought of educating people with the huge fundas (an IITKGP slang for information) gained (during our discussion sessions) and all the possible schemes run by the state and the central government. To our surprise most of the schemes were already known to the villagers. We were amazed for a while. Within a span of time, we realized that our government has really got great plans for the upliftment of the society and especially for the unprivileged children. Unfortunately it was the implementation where all the problems were. We found that the political influence is the major cause for the people being deprived from their rights. In Mirpur village, people were aware of the BPL card and they even had applied for the card but were still waiting for a response from the authorities. In parallel our team was working for mid-day meal project in same village in Mirpur Adivasi Primary School. We got a chance to talk with the Principal of the school and catalyzed the Mid-Day Meal process there. Finally after five months this school has started receiving grant for mid-day meal from the government. Now we really appreciate the proverb, ‘nothing succeeds like success.’ Mid-day meal has not only benefited the children going to Mirpur Adivasi Primary School, but also motivated our group to work with more enthusiasm and devotion. We are looking forward to replicate the same in the other schools in the area where it has not started yet. We hope to put in constant efforts to bring a positive change in the society we live.


The Mirpur story in the media

CRY IIT Kharagpur

Volunteer Chapter