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Abhijeet S
What was CRY's role in all of this?
Funding the non-formal education centres and balwadis (pre-primary centres) for the working children
Funding the community organisers in CWS who brought the community together, giving them a perspective on their rights
Helping CWS plan campaigns and programmes aimed at mobilizing the community
Providing training and organisational inputs that ensured the accountability and effectiveness of the programme
Linking the child rights agenda with the macro issues of livelihood
Building a leadership team in CWS and giving them inputs on how to advocate for the community rights
Linking CWS to other NGOs through the state and the country, thus enabling them to share experiences and learnings.
This, in a nutshell, is what CRY attempts to do with each of the 171 organisations and thousands of communities it works with. The core of which is the belief that each child has rights that society and the state owe her - the right to survive, to develop, to be protected against exploitation and to participate in the decisions affecting her future.
So when the work done by CWS enables 13-year old Urmila Kumari to sit for her Open School Exam, CWS has only ensured that her family, the immediate community of which the family is part of and the local bureaucracy have all recognised this right of Urmila's - the right to an education.
Funding the non-formal education centres and balwadis (pre-primary centres) for the working children
Funding the community organisers in CWS who brought the community together, giving them a perspective on their rights
Helping CWS plan campaigns and programmes aimed at mobilizing the community
Providing training and organisational inputs that ensured the accountability and effectiveness of the programme
Linking the child rights agenda with the macro issues of livelihood
Building a leadership team in CWS and giving them inputs on how to advocate for the community rights
Linking CWS to other NGOs through the state and the country, thus enabling them to share experiences and learnings.
This, in a nutshell, is what CRY attempts to do with each of the 171 organisations and thousands of communities it works with. The core of which is the belief that each child has rights that society and the state owe her - the right to survive, to develop, to be protected against exploitation and to participate in the decisions affecting her future.
So when the work done by CWS enables 13-year old Urmila Kumari to sit for her Open School Exam, CWS has only ensured that her family, the immediate community of which the family is part of and the local bureaucracy have all recognised this right of Urmila's - the right to an education.