Rippan Kapur
FounderFounder of CRY - Child Rights and You
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Rippan Kapur is the founder of CRY - Child Rights and You (1979)[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children, education and healthcare from Mumbai.
CRY - Child Rights and You
CRY works to ensure happier, healthier and safer childhoods for underprivileged children in India. It focuses on education, health and nutrition, protection from child labour, child marriage and trafficking, and child participation, working through grassroots partners across many states.
CRY - Child Rights and You reports the following, on its own site:
- 23,38,980 children impacted in 2025-26
- 91% of children aged 6–18 in CRY project areas are enrolled in school
- 96% of children under 5 in project areas protected from undernourishment
- 88% of adolescent girls in project areas protected from child marriage
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Mumbai
- Founded
- 1979
- Press
- 5
References
- [1] “an Indian Airlines purser - started CRY with 6 friends and just Rs. 50.” — CRY - Child Rights and You. Source
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