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Kalakriti Campaign: Nurturing Children’s Creativity During the Pandemic

Kalakriti Campaign: Nurturing Children’s Creativity During the Pandemic

When the pandemic disengaged urban and rural children from physical classroom to formal education, this campaign was about using drawing as a way of expression to children stuck at their homes. Successfully implemented across 15 states.

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Tarang Campaign: Fostering Joy and Learning Across India

Tarang Campaign: Fostering Joy and Learning Across India

At Goonj, we celebrate Tarang, a campaign to spread some joy among children across urban and rural India. In cities, we invite you to your nearest Goonj office for a book exchange where you can swap any two of your regional language or children's books and get a novel.

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Summer Challenge: Empowering Youth Through Sustainability and Community Engagement

Summer Challenge: Empowering Youth Through Sustainability and Community Engagement

Children complete a series of tasks to complete this challenge. The children who complete the challenge visit the Goonj processing centres to understand how their material is being re-utilized and are presented with a winner’s badge.

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Empowering Kolhapur’s Youth: Skating Enhances Self-Esteem and Learning

Empowering Kolhapur’s Youth: Skating Enhances Self-Esteem and Learning

“My head was spinning when I first saw shoes with wheels..but now I can skate around wearing these..I feel so proud!” says 10 year old Raghuved, “I feel like a bird when I skate..” chirps 9 year old Purthviraj. 5 year old Rakshita, adds jovially, “I was so scared initially..but now I can skate around the village and I am so fast that nobody can catch me.” These are students of Vidya Mandir Kadamwadi,

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Bridging Hope: Karamba Village Constructs Lifesaving Pathway

Bridging Hope: Karamba Village Constructs Lifesaving Pathway

Karamba, a remote village in the Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand, houses just 19 families. To reach the village, one has to cross 3 km of dense forest and a rivulet. During monsoons, the settlement gets completely cut off as the water level of the rivulet, Jhari, rises to life-threatening levels, and the absence of a pucca road adds to the locals’ woes.

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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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