 Rippan Kapur died in 1994.In 2016–2017, CRY reached out to 486,218 children and their families from 2361 villages and slums across 222 districts of 22 states in India.On 3 December 2018, Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie announced that he had started a fundraiser on GoFundMe for CRY in order to help Indian children, partially in response to racist comments left on his videos directed toward Indians.