Not Just a Piece of Cloth

Anshu Gupta is the founder of Goonj, a volunteer-run recycling center in New Delhi. Anshu shows how Goonj recycles garments to provide clothes, schoolbags, sanitary napkins and other amenities for India’s poor. Anshu offers a heartfelt appeal to be mindful of the unused clothing taking space in your closet right now, and what a treasure it could be for someone in need.

Anshu Gupta

Anshu Gupta is an Ashoka Fellow and the executive director of Goonj, a primarily volunteer run organization based in New Delhi that provides clothes and other basic amenities to millions across India by turning one person's waste into a resource for another. In 1998 Anshu... bio page »

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What a good way to serve humanity..credit to the people at Goonj!

RANAEHTISHAMRABBANI on Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 10:56pm

Great Initiative, actually there is a lot of unused garments in the west which can either be sent to you or alternatively recycled here. Any suggestion?

Marika on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 12:25am

Do you have an address where we can send clothing to Goonj?

Patricia on Friday, December 5, 2008 at 8:57pm

did you find an address Patricia, I am in NC and would also like to send material/clothing.

elissanc on Monday, December 29, 2008 at 10:15am

I would also like to donate. Has anybody found the address?

sammiekaye on Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 12:57pm

I would also like to donate...I am going to send an e-mail to globaloneness and maybe they can help.

isisdvn1 on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 3:41pm

Here are details of Goonj, for those who would like to do something -
http://www.goonj.info/
J- 93 Sarita Vihar, New Delhi - 110076, India
+91-11-2697 2351, +91-11-4140-1216
anshu_goonj1ATyahoodotcodotin, anshugoonj24ATgmaildotcom
(replace AT and dot suitably)

SB on Friday, May 22, 2009 at 9:19am