Let's salute the spirit of volunteers and interns helping children overcome the COVID-19 crisis

As the World recently celebrated International Volunteers Day on 5th Dec, Child Rights and You (CRY) saluted the spirit of its large base of volunteers and interns braving COVID-19 crisis to help underprivileged children.

Puja Marwaha, CEO of CRY said, "This was an amazing time where volunteers have helped us do so much. Whether it was sort of during the COVID terrible period, actually be able to help us put together resources on COVID health, whether it was the emergency footprint, whether it was the #VaccineMitra campaign. Some children used the Click Rights Photography initiative where children submitted unbelievably touching and reflective stories. Actually, when you sit and see this, you realize that it is really human beings are amazing, right? Even when the situation was completely new for us, where we couldn't go out, to be able to find hope and to be able to do things and to do things that are relevant for that situation. I think one of the things that we've seen in CRY is all of you (volunteers) coming and helping us with some really boring things like data gathering, crunching, data analysis, translations. And I can't begin to tell you actually how important it is for the children that we work with, for the work that we do."

In 2020-2021, over 7000 volunteers have come together against all odds, impacting the lives of nearly 10,000 children.