Shri. Rippan Kapur was a champion of children with the unshakeable conviction that Indian children were India’s responsibility.
Rippan was 25 and an airline purser, he collected ?7 each from six friends and put in ?8 himself, to make the ?50 he needed to start an NGO called CRY. The ‘office’ was his family home: the dining table was for meetings, and the space under it was used to store greeting cards that were the initial source of revenue.
Rippan believed that people who could make a difference existed; they simply needed to be asked. Rippan taught us how to ask for money and receive it with grace, boldness and conviction.
Rippan’s approach was simple: “What I can do, I must do.” His allegiance clear: “CRY is my home, family and life.” His heart belonged to children. Just an hour or so before he died, when one of his oldest and dearest colleagues asked him how he was feeling, he said, “I can see the faces of smiling children outside my window.”
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Shri. Rippan Kapur was a champion of children with the unshakeable conviction that Indian children were India’s responsibility.
Rippan was 25 and an airline purser, he collected ?7 each from six friends and put in ?8 himself, to make the ?50 he needed to start an NGO called CRY. The ‘office’ was his family home: the dining table was for meetings, and the space under it was used to store greeting cards that were the initial source of revenue.
Rippan believed that people who could make a difference existed; they simply needed to be asked. Rippan taught us how to ask for money and receive it with grace, boldness and conviction.
Rippan’s approach was simple: “What I can do, I must do.” His allegiance clear: “CRY is my home, family and life.” His heart belonged to children. Just an hour or so before he died, when one of his oldest and dearest colleagues asked him how he was feeling, he said, “I can see the faces of smiling children outside my window.”
