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HOW CAN YOU HELP GOONJ
Here is a list of activities in which you can support Goonj's
initiatives:
VASTRADAAN- our nation-wide movement is spreading fast in
various parts of the country.
- Organising collection camps in your work/ residential areas.
We have a full system in place in terms of publicity and other
logistics. Publicity material and posters are ready with us. Fix
up a tentative date and inform us and we'll be there to support
your initiative.
- Helping us in sorting and packing.
- Spreading the message regarding this movement.
- Informing us about localities and villages you think we should
do the distribution.
- Becoming a part of distribution in various villages in
different states.
- Offering some place to be used as collection point in that
area.
SCHOOL to SCHOOL- Winner of 'Changemakers Innovation
award', this programme involves urban school students in making
better school amenities available for their urban poor counterparts.
For more information on S2S log on to our site www.goonj.info
- Approaching urban schools - try to find out a relevant contact
in the school, one of the volunteers can accompany you to meet the
school authorities . We have a lot of publicity material designed
for this and the best approach is to address the assembly after
taking due permissions from the authorities.
- Finding out about a possible Parents - Teachers meet, as we
put up a small set of posters in many schools on these occasions
and it becomes a very fruitful forum for the interaction with the
parents and students.
NEWSPAPER CAMPAIGNS:
One of our main aim is to become self sufficient in terms of
meeting our financial requirements. To this end we are running a
campaign to get 5000 people to commit their monthly old newspapers
to us in the National capital region. We sell these to raise funds
for our work. This way we are not asking anyone for money, are
helping clear up a messy aspect of a household and most importantly
being able to raise funds without involving any funding agency.
We will also replicate the same model in many other cities.
- Charity begins at home. See if you can get other members in
you family convinced that committing your monthly lot of old
newspapers to Goonj is more worthwhile than giving it to someone
for mere 20 rupees.
- Think of 5 friends (5 is just a random number you can think of
10-100 people also) who you think would like to take part in this
campaign. Even if one out of the five gets involved, we have one
person less to search for in 5000. The good thing is the other
four would become aware not only about the newspaper campaign but
also about Goonj and Vastadaan.
- Don't forget- once you have their commitment let us know their
contact details, so we can begin the process.
We are known for providing relief in a very systematic manner
in various disasters now. Every year we initiate a campaign 'RAHAT-
FLOODS' for the most neglected disaster in this country which is-
Assam, Bihar & west Bengal floods during monsoons. Apart form
this we initiate major campaign in various other disasters like
RAHAT- Tsunami, Rahat- Riots etc.
A regular work is among migrants of Kashmir and victims of
various slum fires in the city.
Kindly look out for specific appeals during any disaster on our
website and support our work as the need for volunteers suddenly go
up during disasters for various activities.
NEED TO SET UP GOONJ IN MANY OTHER CITIES-
As the awareness is spreading fast we'll be starting formal
operations in Mumbai & Chennai this year and then will add few
more cities.
We need a space of about 500 Square feet in many cities on
ground floor/ basement for storage and office , some basic office
material and a team of volunteers to initiate the work in a few
cities.
Do look out for people who can offer us these and we'll
immediately start the operations there.
IDENTIFYING BENEFICIARIES-
Rural/ slum schools- Become our eyes and ears. We are
always looking out for rural and slum schools in dire straits who
desperately need our help. If you know about any such school
anywhere in India, even in remote inaccessible areas let us know
about them. What will help immensely is if you can find out about
their contact details and if possible a little more about the state
of affairs (like the number of students, size of the building, no of
teachers etc). Don't worry even if you have read about such a school
or heard about it from someone else, still its useful information
for us so please feel free to call us up.
Distribution in other states- Goonj is operational right
now in 13 states but has formal office only in Delhi due to paucity
of funds. One way is to help us in distribution of material at the
grassroots level and monitoring the work of partner NGOs. We are
also open to the needs in any other states. If you come across any
needy organisation or community in any part of the country do
contact us with the details of local NGO/ Panchayat etc. which can
become our distribution partner to reach material effectively.
Let us know - if you have-
- Fifteen days or a week in advance or a long weekend/ holidays
which you would like to devote.
- Experience or expertise in a related area that you think might
help in the process please let us know.
Then you can become a part of our distribution exercise in the
villages and your feedback at the end of a monitoring, distribution
visit will be an important aspect of this exercise
- Data management: Goonj runs almost entirely on voluntary
efforts therefore information and data management is a critical
part of our work. If you can volunteer some time in a month, for
this. You would need to come to our office and we can tell you how
our systems work.
- website- update: The goonj website on the net is a main point
of contact between us and our volunteers, partners, general
public, funding agencies, people abroad; the list is endless as is
the potential of the internet. If you have expertise in web
designing, web managing etc you can even help us sitting at your
home.
- Publicity material & posters: since we don't have big
funds, we end up making all our publicity posters ourselves, if
you have a creative streak, do join us with your bright ideas and
paint brushes. The experience comes with a guarantee of lots of
fun, free flowing tea and lots of friendships.
- Organising exhibition campaigns in college & school; As
the new session begins in the urban schools, we are going to
develop an awareness building exhibition in these schools to
sensitise the students about the plight of their counterparts in
the far flung poor rural schools.
You can become a part of it by-
Approach urban schools: School to school (S2S) is one of our
key programmes where we are
- You can identify a medium or a big sized school in your area.
- Try and find a student or better still a teacher who can guide
you about the right people to approach in the school.
- Once you have the contact details and the name of the
concerned person to approach, let us know and we can give you the
background information and literature about Goonj.
- Fix up a meeting with the concerned person in the school, you
can go for the meeting either by yourself or if you feel more
comfortable we can send a Goonj representative with you.
- If the school finds the idea favourable, follow up with the
school in consultation with us.
As far as possible we will give you full support in terms of
any logistical, information requirements you may have in this
exercise.
Newspaper campaigns: One of our main aim is to become self
sufficient in terms in terms of meeting our financial requirements.
To this end we are running a nationwide campaign to get 5000 people
to commit their monthly old newspapers to us, we sell these to raise
funds for our work. This way we are not asking anyone for money, are
helping clear up a messy aspect of a household and most importantly
being able to raise funds without involving any funding agency.
- Charity begins at home. See if you can get other members in
you family convinced that committing your monthly lot of old
newspapers to Goonj is more worthwhile than giving it to a Kabbari
wala.
- Think of 5 friends (5 is just a random number you can think of
10-100 people also) who you think would like to take part in this
campaign.
- You know what to do next : talk to them. I can assure you the
reaction to your idea could vary a lot from person to person but
don't loose heart. Even if one out of the five gets involved, we
have one person less to search for in 5000. The good thing is the
other four would become aware not only about the newspaper
campaign but also about Goonj and Vastadaan. Who knows next time….
- Don't forget- once you have their commitment let us know their
contact details, so we can begin the process.
Identify rural schools- You can also become our eyes and
ears. We are always looking out for rural schools in dire straits
who desperately need our help. If you know about any such school
anywhere in India, even in remote inaccessible areas let us know
about them. What will help immensely is if you can find out about
their contact details and if possible a little more about the state
of affairs (like the number of students, size of the building, no of
teachers etc). Don't worry even if you have read about such a school
or heard about it from someone else, still its useful information
for us so please feel free to call us up.
Distribution in other states- Goonj is operational right
now in 13 states but has formal office only in Delhi due to paucity
of funds. If you are in any of the 13 states and would still like to
volunteer with us, one way is to help us in distribution of material
at the grassroots level and monitoring the work of partner NGOs.
- Fifteen days or a week in advance let us know if you have a
long weekend or 2-3 days holidays which you would like to devote.
- If you have experience or expertise in a related area that you
think might help in the process please let us know.
- Your feedback at the end of a monitoring, distribution visit
is the most important aspect of this exercise
- Data management: Goonj runs almost entirely on voluntary
efforts therefore information and data management is a critical
part of our work. If you can volunteer some time in a month, for
this. You would need to come to our office and we can tell you how
our systems work.
- website- update: The goonj website on the net is a main point
of contact between us and our volunteers, partners, general
public, funding agencies, people abroad; the list is endless as is
the potential of the internet. If you have expertise in web
designing, web managing etc you can even help us sitting at your
home.
- Publicity material & posters: since we don't have big
funds, we end up making all our publicity posters ourselves, if
you have a creative streak, do join us with your bright ideas and
paint brushes. The experience comes with a guarantee of lots of
fun, free flowing tea and lots of friendships.
- help us in organising exhibition campaigns in college &
school; As the new session begins in the urban schools, we are
going to develop an awareness building exhibition in these schools
to sensitise the students about the plight of their counterparts
in the far flung poor rural schools.
Contact person: Anshu Gupta
E-mail: anshu_goonj1@yahoo.co.in
anshu_goonj@indiatimes.com
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