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Child Rights

and You (CRY)

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The HCL Grant Project in

Action

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e Grant helped us to upscale our project

from 8 villages in 4 districts to 28 villages in

6 districts. It helped us replicate our tested

model of working with the Bedia community

of identifying, engaging and tracking the

vulnerable children to restore their rights,

connect them to mainstream education, and

bring in social transformation among the

community to prevent adolescent girls from

entering the commercial sex industry. We

also got a chance to present our work to the

Denotified Nomadic, and Semi Nomadic

Tribal Welfare Department, Government of

Madhya Pradesh.

W

orking with the HCL

Foundation

or any tangible impact, it requires time

and focussed intervention with the targeted

A

warded the most trusted NGO in India in 2018, Child Rights and You

(CRY) believes that children should be happy, healthy and creative, and

their rights should be protected and honoured in a society built on respect

for dignity, justice and equity for all. Its projects have been implemented

in the areas of education, health, nutrition, participation and protection of

children in 19 states, and have benefitted at least 3 million children.

F

ounded by Vijaya Pastala in 2009

H

CL Grant Project Approach:

R

eorienting

tribal girls from sex work to education and

literacy through self, society and a system-

oriented approach

HCL Grant Project Title:

DAAN – Breaking

Barriers and Rebuilding the Lives of Bedia Girls

Beneficiaries:

760 children (6–10 years),

526 adolescents (10–14 years), 714 adolescents

(15–18 years), 1145 community members,

210 school management committee members,

70 teachers, 200 village protection

committees and 60 panchayati raj institutions

Location:

20 v

illages in Guna and Sagar districts

of Madhya Pradesh