Play and help

CRY's new gaming website allows you to show your support for child rights while indulging in some serious gaming

Word games have gained a lot of popularity in recent years. Here is your chance to compete in a few interesting word games. As a bonus, you get to help children across the world.

CRY Child Rights and You, India's child rights organisation along with its partners CRY America and CRY UK, has launched a series of web-based games targeted at the rapidly growing global online community in a novel way to garner interest and motivate people to act for child rights.

How it works
Using a fun element, the site www.playforcry.org has three popular games Crossword, Sudoku and Hangman. At various points in the game, different messages about child rights and a variety of children's issues will be featured. You can also send these messages to your friends by simply using the forward option.u00a0

Your role
To participate in the contests, all participants must register at www.playforcry.org. Profile created once cannot be changed with the same registration ID. There will be 2 contests (one a week) in every game Hangman, Sudoku and Crossword.

Each game will run for two weeks, making the entire period a total of six weeks in all. The main page will have three geographical options for the player to choose from.u00a0

Playing each game will give you points where you will be entitled to a grand prize at the end of the contests. You can win points either by donating money or also by just sending invitations to friends to do so.u00a0

What is CRY?
Child Rights and You, earlier known as Child Relief and You, is a leading advocate for child rights. CRY and its partners CRY America and CRY UK (in the US and in UK respectively) work to ensure all children their right to live, learn, play and develop their full potential. Over the last three decades, CRY has partnered with NGOs, communities, government, and is dedicated to mobilise all sections of society to eliminate the root cause of deprivation, exclusion, exploitation and abuse.

Says Sangeeta Kapila, GM (communications), "The denial of rights to marginalised children is appalling and we at CRY believe that every member of our society should take responsibility to change their lives. CRY, therefore, constantly explores innovative ways to spread the message of child rights."