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Addressing Hunger Amidst the Pandemic: Goonj’s Relief Efforts in Sandhiha Village

Addressing Hunger Amidst the Pandemic: Goonj’s Relief Efforts in Sandhiha Village

In Sandhiha village, 30 km from Hazaribagh district headquarters in Jharkhand and situated in a valley guarded by mountains, people from all communities live together in harmony. Majority of the villagers usually migrate to the city for work. However, due to Covid and the following lockdown they are all back and stuck in their homes without any work.

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Stitch-in-Time: Goonj’s COVID-19 Relief Efforts in Tamil Nadu

Stitch-in-Time: Goonj’s COVID-19 Relief Efforts in Tamil Nadu

With the spread of COVID-19 and the national lockdown affecting the lives of millions, Goonj teams are working round-the-clock to reach basic ration and other hygiene material to people. In Tamil Nadu, we turned our processing centers and workshops into 3 face mask-making units, with trained team members in each unit, taking up a daily production of 2,500 masks.

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RahatCOVID19: Goonj’s Relief Operations in Bihar Amid Reverse Migration

RahatCOVID19: Goonj’s Relief Operations in Bihar Amid Reverse Migration

Bihar has seen one of the biggest reverse migration with thousands of workers, returning back in the last few weeks. Some glimpses of our work – Our teams reached out to people in 42 villages in 4 districts of West Champaran, Madhepura, Saharsa, and Buxar, reaching essential rations and basic hygiene packs, face masks, sanitizers etc.

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RahatCOVID19: Goonj’s Relief Efforts in Karnataka Amid the Pandemic

RahatCOVID19: Goonj’s Relief Efforts in Karnataka Amid the Pandemic

Some glimpses of reaching out thousands of cooked meals to family kits among the migrant labours from Bihar, UP, Assam, to Tamil Nadu and also the daily wagers and local casual workers of the closed factories in Bangalore. Also working with local grassroot organisations to reach the daily wagers, rag pickers and banjaran communities, Construction Labors and the villagers in Bangalore,

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RahatCOVID19: Goonj’s Relief Efforts in Maharashtra Amid the Pandemic

RahatCOVID19: Goonj’s Relief Efforts in Maharashtra Amid the Pandemic

In Maharastra, one of the worst-hit Coronavirus hit states, Goonj’s team, together with on-ground volunteers, community workers, is running a community kitchen reaching out cooked food packets and also essential ration kits to migrant worker families.
Goonj is also providing material and monetary support to 8+ partner grassroots organisations in Beed, Mumbai, Solapur,Pune and Kalyan.

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Unexpected Rains Lead to Temperature Drop in Delhi

Unexpected Rains Lead to Temperature Drop in Delhi

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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A New Pair of Shoes: Empowering Kartik’s Educational Journey in Rural Karnataka

A New Pair of Shoes: Empowering Kartik’s Educational Journey in Rural Karnataka

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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Kitaab: Encouraging Sustainable Reading through Pre-Loved Books

Kitaab: Encouraging Sustainable Reading through Pre-Loved Books

This Saturday (21st December) block your time for a Date with Books! Join us for ‘Kitaab’ – A Book Fair of Books people loved..at Goonj Delhi Center.

Check the details below:
Chabootra, Goonj Processing Centre, Madanpur Khadar, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi – 76
21st December 2018 (Saturday)
2:00 pm –

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