Team Trojans consists of Supriya, Sana, Nitin, and Chirag. They are innovators working with the NGO Goonj on their "Cloth for Work" initiative. Goonj collects unused clothing and other materials from urban areas and distributes them to underprivileged communities in rural villages in exchange for work on community projects. This empowers people with dignity while supporting infrastructure development. Goonj has received several awards for its innovative, sustainable model and aims to continue expanding its reach and impact.
Goonj works in the most interior parts of India on multiple issues like clothing, relief during disaster with a long-term strategy, material for children in rural schools and menstrual hygiene.
Beyond Cloth; comprehensive glimpses of Goonj's work in the year 2015-16. Goonj has been working on multiple issues like water, sanitation, agriculture, infrastructure, education, livelihood, disasters.. utilizing urban material as a tool for rural development.
Goonj works in the most interior parts of India on multiple issues like clothing, relief during disaster with a long-term strategy, material for children in rural schools and menstrual hygiene.
Beyond Cloth; comprehensive glimpses of Goonj's work in the year 2015-16. Goonj has been working on multiple issues like water, sanitation, agriculture, infrastructure, education, livelihood, disasters.. utilizing urban material as a tool for rural development.
Goonj Organisation (NGO), Summer Internship Programme by AMIT KUMAR BALAAMIT KUMAR BALA
Following work is having the Technical and Management Details of the Works done during the Summer Internship at Goonj- Kolkata, West Bengal.
Also About what Goonj as an organisation helping the Indian Urban/Rural poors and deprived ones in different parts of the country.
NJPC (Not Just a Piece of Cloth) is focused on opening up the most taboo & ignored subject of menstrual hygiene; a female health hazard by involving the masses in generating an affordable cloth napkin. The NJPC programme is a nationwide intervention, which starts with providing a physical product but stresses more on changing practices, behavior change, education & replication in the long term.
MY Pad, Goonj's clean cloth pad is developed out of old cloth collected from urban masses. It is made with highly indigenous processes while also educating the user women to make it on their own.
GOONJ is one of India's leading NGOs, which recycles urban cloth into valuable resources for the rural poor. Some cloth is recycled into sanitary napkins. The issue of menstruation is often a taboo in India, and is seldom discussed in public. Unfortunately, millions of women suffer from various health problems due to a basic access to sanitary napkins. GOONJ has come up with a much needed ecologically friendly solution that needs to be scaled up throughout the villages of India.
View a video of the presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXtkMl_j5hQ
Anshu Gupta: Creating a Parallel Economy with Reused Materials
Founder and Director of GOONJ.org
April 30, 2013, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Anshu Gupta, an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow, shared his experiences creating a cultural change - conscious giving, not thoughtless dumping - and how he came to lead one of the world's largest civic participation movements. He is the founder of GOONJ.org, a social enterprise that has created social innovations to address critical gaps in the developing world. Making clothing a matter of concern in the development sector emerged as his life's calling with GOONJ.
Considered one of the leading social enterprises in India, GOONJ, is focused on under resourced areas in development work; whether its clothing for the poor, cloth sanitary pads for women, or school materials for children. The organization is addressing the growing gap between prospering cities and rural villages, by moving resources from the former, who discard it as waste, to the later, for whom it is precious.
Event information and multimedia: http://nonprofit.haas.berkeley.edu/events.html
The Schwab Charitable Philanthropy Speaker Series is presented by the Haas Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership (CNPL) and sponsored by Schwab Charitable.
About CNPL: The Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, seeks to inspire the next generation of leaders to create and seize opportunities to achieve social impact across sectors.
For resources and information on how business is integral to the achievement of positive social impact around the world:
Website: http://bit.ly/haas-cnpl
Facebook: http://bit.ly/cnpl-fb
Twitter: @ImpactMBA
Trinity Care Foundation listed in Times Of India amongst the 15 ideas from Karnataka, India making an impact on social change on occasion of 68th Indian Independence Day !
How can you help IYFS [India Youth For Society]?
1. Introduce us to your Grandchildren, like-minded, officials, businessmen, companies etc
2. Analyze our activities, criticize, suggest and support
3. Attend, Participate, Involve and indulge
Cycle for brighter future tamil nadu, alampoondi village event dated 15 FEB 2014Lakshya Aakriti Foundation
Charity Cycle ride for an initiative to establish Brighter future education centre in Tamil Nadu, Alampoondi Village. Helping Khadi, Malkha and Hand loom weavers in support of www.weaverswheel.net and Organizing event for Cycle for brighter future campaign by Matt Brice, Australian Athlete and Philanthropist.
Looking to sponsor a child? ActionAid India has been working with the poor and marginalised in India since 1972 and our child sponsorship program intends to benefit not just the child you sponsor, but also the community that she or he is part of.
Sam and Jane Foundation is a Charitable trust working towards the upliftment of downtrodden and poor people. The trust focuses its activities on Agriculture, Environment, Education, Healthcare, Social Cause, and Women Empowerment.
final year project on various social work activities undertaken by umeed-a dr...riyapandit13
its a hardwork of approx 6 month which includes all the necessary information which is not even available over website of umeed foundation. the data is collected from the headquaters directly .
Goonj Organisation (NGO), Summer Internship Programme by AMIT KUMAR BALAAMIT KUMAR BALA
Following work is having the Technical and Management Details of the Works done during the Summer Internship at Goonj- Kolkata, West Bengal.
Also About what Goonj as an organisation helping the Indian Urban/Rural poors and deprived ones in different parts of the country.
NJPC (Not Just a Piece of Cloth) is focused on opening up the most taboo & ignored subject of menstrual hygiene; a female health hazard by involving the masses in generating an affordable cloth napkin. The NJPC programme is a nationwide intervention, which starts with providing a physical product but stresses more on changing practices, behavior change, education & replication in the long term.
MY Pad, Goonj's clean cloth pad is developed out of old cloth collected from urban masses. It is made with highly indigenous processes while also educating the user women to make it on their own.
GOONJ is one of India's leading NGOs, which recycles urban cloth into valuable resources for the rural poor. Some cloth is recycled into sanitary napkins. The issue of menstruation is often a taboo in India, and is seldom discussed in public. Unfortunately, millions of women suffer from various health problems due to a basic access to sanitary napkins. GOONJ has come up with a much needed ecologically friendly solution that needs to be scaled up throughout the villages of India.
View a video of the presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXtkMl_j5hQ
Anshu Gupta: Creating a Parallel Economy with Reused Materials
Founder and Director of GOONJ.org
April 30, 2013, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Anshu Gupta, an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow, shared his experiences creating a cultural change - conscious giving, not thoughtless dumping - and how he came to lead one of the world's largest civic participation movements. He is the founder of GOONJ.org, a social enterprise that has created social innovations to address critical gaps in the developing world. Making clothing a matter of concern in the development sector emerged as his life's calling with GOONJ.
Considered one of the leading social enterprises in India, GOONJ, is focused on under resourced areas in development work; whether its clothing for the poor, cloth sanitary pads for women, or school materials for children. The organization is addressing the growing gap between prospering cities and rural villages, by moving resources from the former, who discard it as waste, to the later, for whom it is precious.
Event information and multimedia: http://nonprofit.haas.berkeley.edu/events.html
The Schwab Charitable Philanthropy Speaker Series is presented by the Haas Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership (CNPL) and sponsored by Schwab Charitable.
About CNPL: The Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, seeks to inspire the next generation of leaders to create and seize opportunities to achieve social impact across sectors.
For resources and information on how business is integral to the achievement of positive social impact around the world:
Website: http://bit.ly/haas-cnpl
Facebook: http://bit.ly/cnpl-fb
Twitter: @ImpactMBA
Trinity Care Foundation listed in Times Of India amongst the 15 ideas from Karnataka, India making an impact on social change on occasion of 68th Indian Independence Day !
How can you help IYFS [India Youth For Society]?
1. Introduce us to your Grandchildren, like-minded, officials, businessmen, companies etc
2. Analyze our activities, criticize, suggest and support
3. Attend, Participate, Involve and indulge
Cycle for brighter future tamil nadu, alampoondi village event dated 15 FEB 2014Lakshya Aakriti Foundation
Charity Cycle ride for an initiative to establish Brighter future education centre in Tamil Nadu, Alampoondi Village. Helping Khadi, Malkha and Hand loom weavers in support of www.weaverswheel.net and Organizing event for Cycle for brighter future campaign by Matt Brice, Australian Athlete and Philanthropist.
Looking to sponsor a child? ActionAid India has been working with the poor and marginalised in India since 1972 and our child sponsorship program intends to benefit not just the child you sponsor, but also the community that she or he is part of.
Sam and Jane Foundation is a Charitable trust working towards the upliftment of downtrodden and poor people. The trust focuses its activities on Agriculture, Environment, Education, Healthcare, Social Cause, and Women Empowerment.
final year project on various social work activities undertaken by umeed-a dr...riyapandit13
its a hardwork of approx 6 month which includes all the necessary information which is not even available over website of umeed foundation. the data is collected from the headquaters directly .
When 193 nation's ratified the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, there was strong consensus that young people's actions were critical to achieving the Goals. YSA
Planet Aid Recycling for the Planet and Development Projects for the PoorPlanet Aid
Planet Aid is a nonprofit organization that collects and recycles used clothing and shoes. Our efforts annually save more than a 100 million pounds of textiles from being dumped in landfills across the United States. We began recycling used clothing in 1997 in the Boston area. Today our clothes collection boxes can be found across 21 states. Our work has been very successful and the clothes we deliver much in demand, but that is not all we do.
2. Underprivileged need support India has around 35% of its billion population living below the poverty line, with the majority of the poor living in the villages Due to limited resources most schools only have a black board in the name of infrastructure, regular supply of stationery and other basic material is certainly a distant dream. In the peak of winter days, the children did not have a single piece of cloth covering their bodies - warm clothing was a distant dream. This is a 35-lakh strong community spread across Bihar, where people are forced to eat rats in dire circumstances of poverty & survival. Clothing is the last priority in their lives.
3. Goonj Goonj, an NGO (nongovernmental organization) with offices in seven cities, a network that spans 21 states, and partnerships with 150 groups, including other NGOs and the Indian army: Deals with: 1. Ready to use material 2. School material 3. Washable - repairable 4. New/Export Surplus 5. Waste material Unique Business Model: Goonjhas grounded a crucial principle: Self help as the starting point. Always uphold and protect a person’s dignity. Seek to empower rather than breed dependency.
4. Initiatives Schools have been built, wells have been dug up, and bridges have been built by people under its Cloth for Work initiative Essential school material reaches children in the far-flung village schools under School to School programme Rural women are getting the most basic need of a sanitary napkin under Clean cloth sanitary napkin initiative Not just a piece of cloth
5. USP “People get this material not as charity or Daan, they work on their community issues and get the material as motivation” You can drop off your unused clothes at any of the Whirlpool-GOONJ drop boxes in your city There are three ways in which you can make a contribution to Ek Jodi Kapda: Make a pledge for contribution on this site SMS <EJK> to 58558 Call us on these toll-free nos.: 1860-180-8558 / 6000 8558 You can contribute any piece of wearable clothing: it could be pair of jeans, maybe that Superman tee you wore as a kid. You can also give school material; school bags, shoes, stationary, school uniforms, water bottles, toys, games, books, newspapers & one side used paper.
6. Ek Jodi Kapda Ek Jodi Kapdais an initiative unlike any other. It's not just about giving away clothes to the poor-Cloth is being re-positioned beyond charity; by adding dignity to it and turning it into a big resource for development in village India. GOONJ motivates people in the villages to identify their own community issues. People work collectively on the issue and get the material as motivation for their work. So a sincere effort is being made not only to spread happiness amongst the poor, their dignity is also kept intact.
7. School to School (S2S) SCHOOL TO SCHOOL (S2S) helps establish a long-term relationship between an urban and rural schools. An urban school with an average strength of about 1,500-2000 students can support 4 to 5 rural/slum schools with 100-200 kids Normally students don't even have a pencil or copy to write on, a bag, school uniform, shoes, table and chair are a distant dream. The focus is on sensitizing the urban school children and their parents to the needs of their counterparts on the streets and villages.
8. Not Just a piece of Cloth Not Just a piece of cloth is an attempt in providing an affordable, easy to use clean cloth napkin made out of waste cloth for women in villages & slums by involving urban masses primarily women and building awareness on this taboo but critical health issue. This forms a strong connect with the prevalence of RTI and other pelvic diseases in India. The shame & silence associated with the issue makes it the most taboo subject even among women, as a vast majority face great hardships & indignity, besides health risks due to this problem. Sanitary Napkins made by Goonj from cloth
10. Achievements - Goonj ‘Cloth for Work’ wins international Lien i3 Challenge Award CNN IBN’s ‘Real Heros’ award in women welfare segment. India NGO of the year' award ‘Not just a piece of cloth’ wins World Bank’s Global Development Market Place Award First initiative “VASTRA-SAMMAN” recognized as one of ‘The Good Practices’ in Dubai International Awards. Wins Changemaker’s Innovation Award, the second time, for our disaster relief initiative ‘RAHAT’. Prestigious Ashoka Fellowship to Anshu Gupta, for his innovative idea & its mass social impact. Changemaker’sInnovation Award for its “SCHOOL to SCHOOL” initiative, ‘Not Just a piece of Cloth’
11. Cost Structure Acost-effective outlet for huge quantities of material discarded by urban schools every year and the same material has a big motivating effect on children in rural & slum schools. GOONJ.. as a central coordinating agency, ensures long term implementation and reduced logistical responsibility on partner urban schools. As a result a student's needs will be taken care for a span of atleast 7-8 years bringing uniformity and close linkage. GOONJ.. has a strong network of 300 Volunteers, works with corporate houses, schools, transporters, resident welfare associations, neighborhood communities and local grassroots organizations working in rural areas. Beginning with 67 items of clothing from his own closet to initiate Vastradaan,GOONJ..has been sending 3,000-5,000 kg of material in a month regularly.
13. Stage I :- Table Analysis Rating the innovation on a scale of 0 to 5 (5 being the highest score) on each of the parameters outlined in the sandbox, the self assessment scores are:
19. Future... Collaborate with Corporates Get bulk deals of supplying the clothes and other materials Do bulk deals with government to supply school material Collaborate with similar NGOs to include scale Employ more persons Make this as a part of Corporate Social Responsibilty of various companies- Indian and MNC Reach to the grass root level by involving even the last set of villages i.e. Below poverty line Cost structure can be further minimised by decentralization of the offices Opening of offices in more places Inculcating habits of saving, reusing in citizens
20. Please come and contribute… A request by Goonj… Team Trojans Supriya Sana Nitin Chirag