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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#BAITHAK APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 15TH JANUARY 2020!
#Baithak is a platform for organizations working on development issues to brainstorm on ideas, discuss challenges, talk about solutions to build an inclusive ecosystem of co-learning and collaboration.
For more details and application process, refer https://forms.gle/LzsNBrEEzoMStyE1A.
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Winters are an avoidable and preventable disaster, in which millions suffer simply because they don’t have enough clothes.. You can make a difference this year. Contribute your woolens, blankets, and saris.
Join Goonj’s ‘#OdhaDoZindagi‘ Campaign.
To know more, visit www.goonj.org/odz
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Photo of the Week – Postcards from another India –
1 picture every weekend,.
Picture from Uttarakhand, India.
A picture is worth a thousand words! Starting this week, every week we will share one of our teams favourite photographs, giving you a glimpse of the scenes of people and places that our teams witness,
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The cold chill of winters is already bothering people on the roads and far-flung villages. Spread the warmth by contributing your woollens and sarees!
To contribute & read more about our Annual Winter Campaign here www.goonj.org/odz
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20 women of local self-help group of Bamdiha village in Jhargam took the lead in sourcing and creating a nursery with 4700+ seeds of different vegetables such as brinjal, green leaf, chilly, gourd, tomato etc. To prepare the soil for the saplings they first created a structure and covered it with polythene while they also made a boundary to protect the nursery from wild animals.
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It’s not that winter is killing people, it’s the lack of clothing! Read about our Annual Winter Campaign at www.goonj.org/odz
With your material, money matters!
To contribute, refer the link https://goonj.org/dropping-centres/
For monetary contributions, www.goonj.org/contribute
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For many years now Goonj has been mobilising village communities to build kitchen gardens in their schools. In Lohardaga village in Jharkhand, our team recently motivated 70 students and teachers of a local school to build a kitchen garden in their premises. The students also enthusiastically took part in fun sports activities! All kids were rewarded with Goonj School to School kits for their participation.
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In the far-flung villages its getting quite cold already. Share your warmth to keep someone warm this winter. To contribute, visit www.goonj.org/odz
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‘In 2018 less than a quarter of women aged 15 and above participated in the labour force despite India’s rapid economic growth in the past decade’, says World Bank’s September 2019 Report. Even though we see this all around us, in Palghar, not too far from Mumbai, a largely tribal area, most tribal women only find work as labourers in nearby field,
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