Goonj (www.goonj.org), founded in 1999 by Magsaysay award winner Mr. Anshu Gupta, works on poverty alleviation, rural development, and disaster relief & rehab, by using the cities’ discards as a fuel for wide-spread development work across villages in India, creating a barter between two new currencies - the urban underutilized material, and, the efforts of rural communities who work on the neglected issues around water, sanitation, menstrual health and hygiene, nutrition, local infrastructure, etc. Working with a strong network of 600+ grassroots partners, in the last 8 years (2014-2022) itself, we have reached out to more than 12 million people, facilitated 55,000+ development activities and channelized more than 45 million kgs of material across 31 states & UTs of India.

Kindly also refer to the video explaining the process of Goonj- National Geographic on Goonj - Redefining Philanthropy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOowwnlPcAE.

Individuals could drop materials at the dropping centres:

Nagpur

Address: Soham- Home for Senior Living 175, North Ambazari Road, Beside Seva Sadan Saksham High School, Sitabuldi, Nagpur

Contact: Mohan Sarwate - 7887934197

Chandrashekhar Desai - 96658 16885

Timing: Monday – Saturday (10:00 AM- 5:00 PM)

*Please call and only then go to drop materials*

With Best

Team Goonj