GOONJ :
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 Collection
Homes of volunteers
Local collection centres First level sorting done here Processing and Packaging Dispatch and Transportation Cloth-for-work Program Normal Circumstances
To end beneficiaries through local partner organisations Disaster relief work Usable Material
Sorted
Cleaned
Packaged Unusable Material
Converted into items like handbags, mats etc.
Made into sanitary napkins: Not Just a Piece of Cloth Program > 100 person organisation.
Operating in over 21 states across India.
Partnering with over 150 organisations. GOONJ
GOONJ :
GOONJ Difference between the conventional method and GOONJ
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.
Slide 6:
Congratulations GOONJ