Campaign Story
About the project
A distinguishing feature of CRY’s role as a ‘support’ organization has been its emphasis on providing not only financial but also non financial support to its Project partners. A major component of the non financial support extended to partners is in the form of capacity building (CB) / training.
Making a difference
CRY India undertakes project planning, monitoring & evaluation, including regular field visits, financial reporting & program reviews for all the CRY America Projects. CRY follows a participatory approach through group work and facilitation which serves as platforms for inter-partner exchange of learning. The experiences and learnings, drawn from years of organizing capacity building program for partners, have helped streamline and systematize further the process of organizing and conducting the training initiatives
The way forward
CRY continues to help it’s Project Partners understand, assess and then seek ways to address the knowledge, skill & existing information gaps. The issues on which CRY is reaching out to the children in the marginalized communities are varied and represent a complex web of issues linked to denial of rights of children. It becomes imperative to correctly identify the issues and gaps on which the Capacity Building (CB) would have to be planned for the particular year. CRY’s interventions with partners comes in handy in this situation.
Project Impact
75
Villages reached through various interventions.
162
Women and women-led households connected to social safety-net programs
8
In all 8 districts, need-based, demand-driven intervention plans developed.
State-wide colloquium organized with various organizations working on issues of trafficking, safe mobility and migration.
44
Lawyers from 16 districts participated in workshops on marriage and divorce under Muslim Personal Law and the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.
Last Year’s Grant Disbursed: $71,684
Current Year’s Approved Grant: $90,884
Project Story
The world over, the COVID pandemic had a way of making already-bad home situations even worse: Such was the case for 25-year old Shilpa from Ranchi and her young daughter.
Her husband, a wage laborer, began having extramarital affairs with several other women. These relationships did not remain clandestine for long – when Shilpa found out, she was rightly livid. Following a fight, she and her 4-year-old decamped to her parents’ house. Before she could return to her own home, the March 24, 2020 India-wide lockdown went into effect. The stay-at-home order kept her stuck at her childhood home for three weeks.
When she returned to her own house, one of the other women had already moved in. Her husband declared his intention to marry the woman, upon which Shilpa went directly to the Women’s Police Station to file a complaint. Her estranged husband appeared at the station, and agreed to a compromise. However, when Shilpa returned once again to the house, her husband refused to allow her in, assaulting her physically in the process.
Shilpa found out about AALI via the court. She had gone to court for a pre-litigation hearing, but her husband failed to appear. AALI assisted Shilpa in filing a First Information Report (FIR, or police report). She later received a notice that her husband had applied for interim bail at the court. With AALI’s support, she took the opportunity to also appear before the court and demand a divorce. The court ruled in her favor – dissolving the marriage and awarding her a settlement of Rs 5 lakh (over $7000 USD).
AALI’s advocacy succeeded for Shilpa and her daughter, who now have a chance at a new beginning, free of the trauma and tumult of a broken home.
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