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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.
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.
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Great Initiative, actually there is a lot of unused garments in the west which can either be sent to you or alternatively recycled here. Any suggestion?
did you find an address Patricia, I am in NC and would also like to send material/clothing.
I would also like to donate...I am going to send an e-mail to globaloneness and maybe they can help.
Ms.B.Bhagya Lakshmi aged 34 years is W/o B.Maddaiah of Nannur village of Orvakal Mandal of Kurnool District, A.P. She got marriage in the year 1986 with Maddaiah by giving Rs.1116/-as dowry. Her husband is not doing any work. She has been going for agriculture labour work to feed. Her husband used to harass her by abusing and beating. She attempted for suicide by consuming sleeping tablets. In the year 1988, her brother Mr.Shiva Shankar has taken her and kept in his house. She has no children. She was in the hospital and bed rest for about 2 years. When she was in the hospital, her husband married another woman. But, she is not yet divorced. She wants to live on her own legs.
SERUDS provided her an opportunity to develop her skills in their tailoring center organized at Nannur village. She was provided a USHA sewing machine by SERUDS with support from GIVE INDIA. Now she is undergoing 6 months training in tailoring & embroidery. She got confidence to live on her own legs with this training programme. She already started to stitch jackets, petty coats; saree falls etc. and earning for her food. She is looking for financial support for purchase of embroidery machine and tools costing @Rs.8000/- to expand her self-employment unit.
SERUDS appeal the philanthropists to support her genuine cause and provide her a embroidery machine & tools.
pls visit us at www.serudsindia.org
Dear Sir/Madam,
Greetings from SERUDS ( www.serudsindia.org )
We have recently conducted National Environmental Awareness Campaign Activities. Pls see our activities at
http://seruds.blogspot.com/2010/01/national-environmental-activity-on.html
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