CRY's CEO at Synergos' University for a night

October 11, 2006: Ingrid Srinath, CEO, CRY, Child Rights and You, India's India's premier non-profit organisation working to restore the rights of underprivileged Indian children, will be one of the four plenary discussion speakers at the Synergos University for a Night event on October 12, 2006 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.

University for a Night brings global leaders together to discuss the world's most pressing problems. Through the plenary discussion, a question and answer session and discussions over dinner, participants learn from each other and share ideas that help to address problems of poverty, inequity, environmental degradation and conflict.

Ingrid will be sharing the platform with E Neville Isdell, Chairman and CEO of the Coca Coca Company, Ted Turner, media baron and Founder and Chairman of the United Nations Foundation and the first woman head of State in Africa, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Ingrid was selected as a Synergos Senior Fellow in 2003.

A founding board member of CRY America, Ingrid currently spearheads CRY's expansion to the UK and the Middle East. Ingrid joined CRY in 1998, after working extensively in the advertising industry.

According to Ingrid "We've learned that the only way to make lasting change happen is to adopt what we call the 'child rights approach'. Stripped of all jargon, what this entails is looking at children's issues in their entirety rather than through narrow segments, then seeking the underlying root causes of the deprivation - gender, caste, livelihoods, displacement and the like and finally, mobilising each local community to find long-term solutions to these problems by ensuring the relevant laws and policies that guarantee their rights are actually implemented. In a nutshell, CRY believes in child rights for three reasons - because the alternatives are ineffective, illegal and unjust."

CRY America, commenced operations in November 2002. In over three years, it has a 500-strong volunteer base spread across 23 US cities comprising students, executives, professionals and homemakers. CRY America seeks to provide American donors' new levels of accountability and transparency in measuring the impact their contributions make in ensuring children their rights.

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