Goonj NGO - Biography, category, foundation, founder, Activities, Campaigns, Awards

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Goonj (NGO)

Goonj is a non-governmental organisation headquartered in New Delhi, India which undertakes calamity consolation, beneficent aid and neighborhood evolution in land of 23 countries across India. Goonj focuses on threads as a introductory but unaddressed needfulness.
It was inaugurated in 1999 by Anshu Gupta. For his composition with Goonj, he was rewarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2015. In 2012, he was titled India's Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 by Schwab Foundation, a family association of World Economic Forum.

Goonj Overviews

Name

Goonj NGO

Types of Registration

Non-Governmental Organization

Founded

1999

Founder

Anshu Gupta

Area of Work

We work on calamity consolation, community development & basic clothes for undressed needs.

Official Website

https://goonj.org/

Address

J-93, Sarita vihar, New delhi-110076

Contact Details

mail@goonj.org

Call Us: 011-26972351, 41401216

 

NGO Category

  • Community development
  • Humanitarian Aid

Date Of Foundation

  • 1999

Activity

GREEN BY GOONJ

For years, Goonj has helped bring surplus handmade ingredients. With Green by Goonj's recycled products brand, we make sure we don't throw away anything: clothes you can't wear, oversized ripped jeans, old fabrics, old audio tapes, and unused ties. Our women's team  from all over the world this holiday season. India presents a special edition of modern products that show aesthetics, craftsmanship and design awareness.

RAHAT

To constructed an active, dependable time-examined community of stakeholders in each rural & city India making sure our reaction time for generating & channelizing catastrophe relief & rehabilitation assets is fast & customised to converting needs.

Through the 12 months Goonj teach not unusualplace hundreds approximately sensitivities of giving in screw ups, growing a tradition of aware giving.

Bring interest to preventable screw ups like iciness to lessen deaths and struggling on this season in most cases because of non- availability of clothing.

Focus on rehabilitation activities.

Not just a piece of cloth

Addressing  gaps and challenges in menstrual hygiene and women's care through full engagement with all key stakeholders.

 Breaking the culture of shame and silence associated with menstruation  and addressing  menstrual hygiene challenges with a triple-A approach to menstruation access, awareness and accessibility for the last woman in rural and slum areas of India. Encouraging the city's public to invest in MY Pads fabric sanitary napkins for women struggling for it.

School to School

He builds relationships of compassion and dignity between urban and rural children on both sides of the greater sharing of resources and opportunities. Children in the city learn to value their rich resources as they learn more  about other Indias. children learn about academic achievement while Genji textbook brings all stakeholders together. teachers, parents and rural communities.

Dignity for Work (DFW)

Create and maintain bonds of empathy, dignity and worth between the concerns of the poor and the rich.

Build  economic chains between cities by sharing one person's surplus wealth to solve another's resource scarcity.

It provides dignity and a better livelihood to communities in cities and towns across India, using urban surplus and rural efforts as two alternative development currencies.

Campaigns

• In 2010, he launched with  Whirlpool Corporation "the Ek Jodi Kapda Project", opening various centers to collect donated clothing.

 • Joy of Exchange campaign was a joint initiative of Pantaloons Fashion & Retail Limited and Goonj. Silos are installed in various Pantaroon offices across India in 2011.

• 2013, Johnson`s Baby India and Goony collaboration. there are many drop-off points from where you can get children's clothing, toys, books and other items.

 • In 2016, the Look Good Do Good project was launched in collaboration with Raymond. This allows you to replace your free custom made new trousers with your existing ones. This pants exchange program allowed all Raymond customers to donate old pants to suit those in need. During the 2013 Uttarakhand Flood and the 2014 Kashmir Flood,

 • Goonji participated in  the  Rahat Flood and the Kerala Flood Project, collecting humanitarian aid from people across India.

Awards

  • Goonj won the Changemaker Innovation Award for her inter-school initiative, In 2004.
  • Anshu Gupta  was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Prize in 2015 for his work with Gunj.
  • Award of World Bank’s Development Marketplace.
  • In 2012, NASA and the U.S. Department of State were awarded him the Game-changing Innovation Award.
  • It won the Japan Global Development Fund Award for  the most innovative development project.
  • further Goonj won many other awards as well.

Goonj NGO founder

Goonj was initiated in 1999 by Anshu Gupta.

Anshu Gupta,widely known as the man in clothes and founder of Goonj, an Indian non-profit organization. One of India's leading social entrepreneurs, Anshu puts instinctive empathy and communication with people on the desk, shifting the focus from the traditional pride of the giver to the dignity of the non-traditional recipient. Recipient of the prestigious 2015 Asia's Noble Ramon Magsaysay Award, he was recognized "for his creative vision to transform India's philanthropic culture, his active leadership in treating textiles as a sustainable  resource for the poor, and his active leadership in a reminder of peace." . A genuine donation. Always respecting and preserving human dignity."

Goonj NGO Info

J-93, Sarita vihar, New delhi-110076

mail@goonj.org

011-26972351, 41401216

External links

Official website:- https://goonj.org/

"Goonj: A ready to wear label for the poor"