Goonj - Innovation for India Award winner

GOONJ(Social innovations)

GOONJ
Context:
Clothing is not a key part of development agenda, globally.
Discarded clothes, considered a waste in cities, is invaluable in resource starved rural India.

GOONJ
GOONJ
Donation
Individuals
Organisations
Collection Camps organised by GOONJ
> 100 person organisation.
Operating in over 21 states across India.
Partnering with over 150 organisations.
Collection
Homes of volunteers
Local collection centres
First level sorting done here
Processing and Packaging
Unusable Material
Converted into items like handbags, mats etc.
Made into sanitary napkins: Not Just a Piece of Cloth Program
Usable Material
Sorted
Cleaned
Packaged
Dispatch and Transportation
Disaster relief work
Normal Circumstances
To end beneficiaries through local partner organisations
Cloth-for-work Program

GOONJ
Difference between the conventional method and GOONJ

GOONJ
Impact:
At a scale of 3 million pieces of clothes a year, it costs only 97 paisa per piece for collecting, cleaning, sorting and transporting.
Deals with over 50 tonnes of material dispatch every month
Produces about 200,000 sanitary napkins every month
Responding to disasters from 1999:
First and largest responder during floods in Bihar in 2008.

Congratulations GOONJ

Goonj - Innovation for India Award winner

by InnovationIndia on May 24, 2010

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