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.

Material collected could be dropped to the office of Goonj at Chennai. Here are the details:

Address: Siva Parvathy Kalayna Mandapam, Plot No.25/26 Door No:4/558, 2nd Main Rd, S. Kolathur, Viduthalai Nagar, Kovilambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600117

Map: Click here

Contact: Jigisha/Anisha : 9354937428 / 044-49533991

Email: jigisha@goonj.org / anisha@goonj.org

Timing: Monday – Saturday 10.00 AM.- 5.00 PM. (Sunday closed)

Notes: * * If you are not able to reach our team members on the above numbers, then please call us on 011- 41401216 or write to us mail@goonj.org

Please call a day in advance before you go to drop :-)

With Best

Team Goonj