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#PhotoOftheWeek – Postcards from another India..

#PhotoOftheWeek – Postcards from another India..

#PhotoOftheWeek – Postcards from another India…
“OdhaDoZindagi”- Picture from Uttarakhand, India.

1 picture every weekend, giving you a glimpse of the amazing, heart touching scenes of people and places that our teams witness, with their story behind it.

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Our markets, roads, hospitals, schools etc. are the basics of our life..

Our markets, roads, hospitals, schools etc. are the basics of our life..

Our markets, roads, hospitals, schools etc. are the basics of our life.. BUT it’s not the same in the villages. Some highlights from FY 2018-19…

For more details please refer our latest annual report: http://bit.ly/GoonjAR1819

With your Material, Money Matters..Do Contribute https://goonj.org/contribute/ as Goonj’s innovative model uses the money for logistics and admin aspects while urban surplus material is used as a powerful development resource to trigger this work.

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Children should not be made victims of Charity

Children should not be made victims of Charity

‘Children should not be made victims of Charity’ is one of our guiding principles. Every year thousands of kids in schools and Anganwadis across rural India take up some learning activities and then as a reward for their efforts, get Goonj School Kits having basic learning material like books, toys, stationery, uniforms etc.

Our latest annual report: http://bit.ly/GoonjAR1819

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The recent rains in Delhi have made the city a bit colder..

The recent rains in Delhi have made the city a bit colder..

The recent rains in Delhi have made the city a bit colder.. surely you also must have added one more layer to your clothing.. to be comfortable. BUT that’s not true for everyone..
Many men, women, and children are struggling on the roadsides, construction sites, and shanties all around us, with the bare basics.

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Creating large scale livelihood from disaster wastage

Creating large scale livelihood from disaster wastage

While most people know Goonj’s disaster relief work but few know about our livelihood generation work using huge quantities of disaster wastage. Started in 2005 after the Tsunami with 100 trucks of cloth leftover on Tamil Nadu roads to recent Kerala floods where Goonj took up big containers of waste cloth and partnered with Kuthumbshree,

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People of Madikinal village in Raichur district of Karnataka used water running through a nearby dirty canal that had accumulated silt and debris over time

People of Madikinal village in Raichur district of Karnataka used water running through a nearby dirty canal that had accumulated silt and debris over time

People of Madikinal village in Raichur district of Karnataka used water running through a nearby dirty canal that had accumulated silt and debris over time. Their agriculture and livelihood were worst affected by this limited availability of water. Mobilized and motivated by Team Goonj 86 people here came together to clean the entire canal using local techniques.

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Working deeply on Water with people| Glimpses from 2018-19

Working deeply on Water with people| Glimpses from 2018-19

Working deeply on Water with people| Glimpses from 2018-19

Just in one year (2018-19) when hundreds of villages across India work on more than 1010 water-related projects including cleaning and reviving of local water bodies, digging of ponds and wells, rainwater harvesting and re-building of check dams. Its time to acknowledge that something interesting is unfolding here.

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The countdown begins! We hope to see you at the first stop of #Chaupal2020 in Dubai! Please note that there has been a change in the venue. Details given below:

The countdown begins! We hope to see you at the first stop of #Chaupal2020 in Dubai! Please note that there has been a change in the venue. Details given below:

The countdown begins! We hope to see you at the first stop of #Chaupal2020 in Dubai! Please note that there has been a change in the venue. Details given below:

Date: Saturday, January 25th, 2020
Time: 2 pm to 6:30 pm Gulf standard time
Venue: One Life Kitchen and Cafe,

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Our 2018-19 annual report in a new avatar!

Our 2018-19 annual report in a new avatar!

Our 2018-19 annual report in a new avatar!

2018-19 was our 20th anniversary – a year of introspective journey and some firsts. Do look out for details on Chaupal – No Agenda Conversations’, ‘Witnessing Disasters’ a specially curated pictorial exhibition, introducing disasters to urban India. Publications highlighting learnings on disaster relief and menstrual hygiene and new initiatives started with the flood hit people of Kerala..

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From the time 8 years old Kartik found out that that everyone in his class was going to get brand new shiny shoes the next day, he couldn’t wait for the day to end. He woke up a little earlier than usual that morning got ready and ran to school.

From the time 8 years old Kartik found out that that everyone in his class was going to get brand new shiny shoes the next day, he couldn’t wait for the day to end. He woke up a little earlier than usual that morning got ready and ran to school.

From the time 8 years old Kartik found out that that everyone in his class was going to get brand new shiny shoes the next day, he couldn’t wait for the day to end. He woke up a little earlier than usual that morning got ready and ran to school.

Kartik lives with his parents in a Karigudda village,

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