Photography for Change!

Click Rights Volunteers organised an Exhibition on Wheels in Kolkata, theme being- Child Rights through the lens. The photographs taken by volunteers were displayed on cycle vans and taken around the city spanning 7 days (Jan 13-19) across various bustling locations.

Nilayan Dutta along with Click Rights volunteers from diverse professional background and interns from SIMC all geared up over the last 1 month to set up this pioneering mode of mobile exhibition in Eastern India and gained appreciation from various quarters.


To get a glimpse of the photographs clicked by volunteers and displayed, click on the link below and see the presentation. You would like it for sure!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/49oq8z

* Click Rights is a Volunteer Initiative started by the Volunteer Action Division of CRY- Child Rights and You in partnership with Nilayan Dutta (Photo Journalist) to mobilize citizens of Kolkata through the power of photography and inspire them to advocate for child rights

** Photo Courtesy- Amit Dhar

Children perform- Don't miss!!

This year we would be celebrating the 12 th Bol Jamoore – the Festival of Street Theatre in Kolkata on 15th and 16th of December 2010 . The festival is organized by “Theatre Forum for Child Rights” (TFCR), a forum supported by CRY-Youth wing. The festival aims to generate awareness on various social issues and reach out to public as audience. The entire event facilitates a thinking process in the minds of our children and youth. It brings out the different perspectives of children and youth on today’s situation of deprivation faced by millions of children in India ranging from child labor to extreme poverty, from poor quality education to child trafficking. The platform provides an excellent opportunity for our children and youth to come and perform in front of a large audience to spread the awareness on child rights.

We are looking forward to your participation. Necessary details are as follows:

Dec 15 (Wednesday): Academy of Fine Arts (Open Air), 4- 7 PM

Dec 16 (Thursady): Madhusudan Mancha (Muktangan), 4-7 PM

Anupama
CRY Kolkata

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)