GOONJ....
J- 93 Sarita Vihar,
New Delhi - 110076.

Tel. -  2697 2351, 4140-1216


E- Mail :-

anshu_goonj1@yahoo.co.in
anshugoonj24@gmail.com

People from different walks of life often call us to find out about how they can volunteer for GOONJ..
Oppurtunities for International Volunteers

Here is a list of our initiatives, you can be a part of..

• Organising collection camps in your work/ residential areas. We have put in place a step by step system 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.
• Help us in sorting and packing.
• Spread the message about this movement.
• Inform us about areas and villages where you think our distribution will help in a big way.
• Become a part of the actual distribution in the villages.
• Spare a corner of your home to be used as collection point in your area.

1. Approaching urban schools – try to find out a relevant contact in the school. Our 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.
2. Find out about a big occasion in the school like Parents–Teachers meet. This becomes forum for interaction with the parents and students. We put up a small exhibition on conditions of rural school and the impact of this programme there and it becomes a very fruitful and interactive event.

• Charity begins at home. Commit your monthly lot of old newspapers to Goonj and talk to your neighbours and relations also about this.

• Think of 5 friends (5 is just a random number you can think of 10-100 people also) who 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 that 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. This apart we regularly initiate major campaigns in various other disasters like RAHAT- Tsunami, Rahat- Riots etc.
• We are also working regularly 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 goes up during disasters.
  

• 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.
• If you come across any needy organisation or community who are doing good work, in any part of the country do let us know about them.
  

• Fifteen days or a week’s spare time (in advance) or a long weekend/ holidays which you would like to devote to Goonj work.
• Experience or expertise in a related area that you think might help in the process.
• 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. Can you 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 home.
• Publicity material & posters: To keep the expenses low, we develop all our publicity material ourselves. If you have a creative streak, do join us with your bright ideas and colours. The experience comes with a guarantee of lots of fun, free flowing tea and lots of friendships.
• Organising exhibition campaigns in colleges & schools. As the new session begins in urban schools, we plan 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.
  

• A vehicle- bigger than a Maruti van for local collections and distribution
• Computers, printer, fax machine, scanner
• Storage Almirahs and racks .
• Resources for developing drop boxes to be kept at various locations