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.
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... bio page »
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