Speaker of the Year — a global youth forum by leading child rights NGO, CRY (Child Rights and You) and Maverik ventures is an initiative that was started to promote the ideas of Young India has now fostered thousands of young guns of India with millions of revolutionary ideas that ensures the creation of a better world.
The theme for Speaker of the Year- Global Youth Forum 2014 was ‘Child Rights’ and the six month long campaign across six states of the country, got completed on January 5 at National Science Centre, Delhi. There were approximately 10,000 registrations for the event out of which best 150 students were shortlisted and were invited for the finale. The forum was graced by the Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, 2012 london Olympics bronze medallist who shared his journey. He emphasised upon the importance of hardwork and passion to achieve dreams. The best students were adjudged as the speaker of the Year 2014 and were felicitated with internship with CRY and goodies like tablet computers, shopping vouchers etc.