At a time when the whole world is living for their selfish motives, it is very rare and amazing to find people on this earth who are fighting genuinely and indefinitely for the welfare of the society. Its rare but not impossible. I am aware of a group that is putting their best efforts to uplift the
rural people around the corners of our country(India). I am talking of a Delhi based NGO called
GOONJ(...a voice an effort) founded by Mr Anshu Gupta( a student of IIMC and an Ashoka fellow). The main objective of this group is to provide the basic need of clothing to every deprived Indian across the country. It is also looking forward to spread its arms in our neighbourhood countries(pakistan, bangladesh, srilanka,etc). It has a model that has been adopted by corporates and NGO's across India. Its main objective is to collect
clothes and other goods from urban houses(which are of no use to their keepers), mend, clean, sort and distribute them to the needy, thus helping in recycle of waste through the help of locally active NGO"S. They have 300 volunteers across the
country who also help them in the process. These people also promote handicrafts made out of old clothes and in the
process provide employment to many housewife who were surviving in the form of unskilled labors. Several
areas where the group is working are:- —
School to School-
supplies school uniforms, bags, toys , etc to school going children in rural areas by sesitising their urban counterparts. —
Not just a piece of cloth- make sanitary napkins for rural women who can't afford costly ones from the market and get infected by using dirty clothes. —
RAHAT-- supplies medicines and other basic needs during the time of floods. Even I being a student in the final year of my graduation, take out some time in the week ends to volunteer for this noble cause. You can join us in the movement by donating your discarded clothes , toys, shoes, utensils, etc at our collection camps spread throughout delhi, mubai & chennai . To know more mail at
kumar_sensational@yahoo.co.in, anshu_goonj1@yahoo.co.in or call us at 9811377361(pranab). To know more visit www.goonj.info
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