Anshu Gupta
Anshu Gupta is an Ashoka Fellow and the executive director of Goonj, a primarily volunteer run organization based in New Delhi that provides clothes and other basic amenities to millions across India by turning one person's waste into a resource for another. In 1998 Anshu left his job as a manager of corporate communications in a large Indian company to found Goonj and travel India in order to understand the needs of the people of his country.Videos featuring Anshu Gupta
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Not Just a Piece of Cloth
Anshu Gupta is the founder of Goonj, a volunteer-run recycling center in New Delhi. Anshu shows how Goonj recycles garments to provide clothes, schoolbags, sanitary napkins and other amenities for India’s poor. Anshu offers a heartfelt appeal to be mindful of the unused clothing taking space in your closet right now, and what a treasure it could be for someone in need.
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The Power of Masses
Anshu Gupta, executive director of a volunteer-run recycling program in New Delhi, explains that the key to acting on a large scale is accommodating everybody's strengths. Inviting people to offer whatever skills they have in service to a cause empowers both the individual and the movement. Change is limited when the masses underestimate their own potential.
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