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Encouraging Expression Through School Kits – Goonj’s Creative Learning Day in Siddapura, Karnataka

Encouraging Expression Through School Kits – Goonj’s Creative Learning Day in Siddapura, Karnataka

Goonj’s S2S session in Siddapura village fosters expression, confidence, and community-led education through creative activities and urban surplus school kits.

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Building Financial Habits Young – Children Create Gullaks at Bellandur Goonj Session

Building Financial Habits Young – Children Create Gullaks at Bellandur Goonj Session

Children in Bellandur create handmade Gullaks and join Goonj’s circular living movement with their community through a flea market reuse drive.

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Breaking the Silence in Majuli: Dignity, Dialogue, and a Piece of Cloth

Breaking the Silence in Majuli: Dignity, Dialogue, and a Piece of Cloth

Explore how Goonj’s Not Just a Piece of Cloth (NJPC) initiative is breaking taboos and restoring dignity through community dialogues and sustainable menstrual solutions in flood-affected Majuli, Assam.

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A Community on the Margins, with Strength at its Core

A Community on the Margins, with Strength at its Core

Discover how Goonj’s Cloth for Work and Not Just a Piece of Cloth initiatives in Jodahatti, Karnataka are fostering menstrual health and women-led dignity through bathroom construction and awareness sessions.

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Reviving a Lifeline: How Peddur Village Restored Its Canal Through Collective Action

Reviving a Lifeline: How Peddur Village Restored Its Canal Through Collective Action

See how the community of Peddur village in Karnataka came together under Goonj’s Cloth for Work initiative to revive a clogged canal—restoring water access, creating organic solutions, and rebuilding dignity.

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A Gullak of Shared Joy – Creativity, Contribution, and Community in Mehdipatnam

A Gullak of Shared Joy – Creativity, Contribution, and Community in Mehdipatnam

At Mehdipatnam, children and families joined Goonj for a Gullak painting session—turning a creative day into a story of empathy, participation, and circular giving.

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Restoring Dignity Through Local Innovation in Banswara, Rajasthan

Restoring Dignity Through Local Innovation in Banswara, Rajasthan

Discover how women and girls in Panasi Bari, Rajasthan, reclaimed dignity and health by building private bathrooms through collective community action and local innovation.

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Sunil ji’s Journey — From Personal Loss to Collective Impact

Sunil ji’s Journey — From Personal Loss to Collective Impact

Meet Sunil Anand from Uttarakhand—a Goonj volunteer who turned his wife’s wish into community action. From Joy of Giving Week cloth drives to promoting GBG products, his story reflects dignity, creativity, and purpose.

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Reviving Water, Restoring Livelihoods: A People-Led Canal Cleaning Drive in Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu

Reviving Water, Restoring Livelihoods: A People-Led Canal Cleaning Drive in Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu

Explore how 77 villagers in Gummudipoondi, Tamil Nadu came together for a people-led canal cleaning drive, restoring water flow and reviving 500+ acres of farmland

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Reviving Paddy Fields and Preventing Floods: A People-Led Canal Cleaning Drive in Pannapattu Village, Tamil Nadu

Reviving Paddy Fields and Preventing Floods: A People-Led Canal Cleaning Drive in Pannapattu Village, Tamil Nadu

Discover how farmers in Pannapattu (Mela Theru), Tamil Nadu, revived paddy cultivation and prevented floods through a people-led canal cleaning initiative under Goonj's Cloth for Work initiative.

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Venkatapuram: Where Children Grew a Garden and a New Way of Thinking

Venkatapuram: Where Children Grew a Garden and a New Way of Thinking

In a Tamil Nadu village, students turned their school’s unused land into a thriving kitchen garden, learning resilience, responsibility, and community care along the way.

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