Pudiyani village in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand was facing acute water shortage and it took a heavy toll on the women in the region. 45 women came together to dig a (10×4.2ft) pond and in just a few days they had their farm pond ready for irrigation and to store water for their livestock.
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Just last week West Bengal witnessed Cyclone Bulbul where winds and rain caused massive destruction to infrastructure and land, taking away the basics of thousands of families. The winds have damaged most of the paddy fields, betel leaf farms and various winter vegetables like bitter gourd. Fishing farms, the primary source of income for the locals,,
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Are you running for Goonj the Tata Mumbai Marathon 2020? Here is how you can take part:
*Raise funds online by creating a Fundraiser page: https://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/fundraiser_registration.php
*Contribute onilne at https://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo-159
*Run for Goonj using a charity bib. You could request for bibs at https://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/ngo-159 also.
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Awareness cum collection drives will be organized by hundreds of volunteers..
Read More >Missing Voices
A question posted on Quora “Do prostitute work when they are on their periods?.” To which one lady, who was in the profession answered, “If we didn’t, it would be a 1 week unpaid vacation every month of which when you are running a business or you have a career or just any job that you are dedicated to,
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Goonj completes 2 decades in February, 2019..!! As we celebrate this special occasion we want you and others like you, all across India, who have walked with us in this journey, to join us.
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Goonj strongly believes that it’s not the cold but lack of clothing that kills people highlighting winters as an avoidable, preventable disaster..
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Read More >Some issues affect us all, irrespective of whether you are a man or a woman. Menstruation is such an issue.. where we all must get involved to solve the issue. If you think about it.. it’s not really a women’s issue but a human issue.. A mother, a daughter, a wife, a girl friend.. We or someone we know has every month dealt with menstruation..
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