Old clothes for the needy

Last year , at around this time I was able to collect a large number of old and unused clothes from my family, colleagues,friends and colony friends and give it to an  NGO called GOONJ which in turns gives them to the needy. The concept of GOONJ was unique. As far as I understood, it just doesn't give this clothes straight away. The team of GOONJ gathers the volunteers of a village who are willing to work for its upliftment through their programs and after fulfillment of these programs, these old clothes which are refurbished by GOONJ team along with some other things is handed over to the people of that village. Its a win-win situation and a successfully working model through which they have executed various programs across India. 

This year continuing the same trend, I happen to request in the month of September  all my friends, colleagues, relatives and colony friends to give away their old clothes. All I got it is what you see in the picture. An overwhelming response which I did not expected frankly.

Eight gunny bags worth of old clothes has been successfully collected so far. And I would like to thank all my friends, family,relatives and colony friends for their quick response and good heart to help the needy. God Bless you all.

I decided to do this every year in this period as the winter dominates India and people without clothes will suffer its wrath. It is said that death through cold is second highest in India and hopefully I get to collect more gunny bags every year and give it to the needy.

I'm planning to visit the GOONJ office next Saturday hopefully to give these items to them. I will post an update accordingly.

Anybody interested to know more about the activities of GOONJ can visit their website. http://goonj.org/ . 

Hopefully it inspires you to do something as well. 

Cheers 

Vamsi

Update - 17/12/2016

Finally I got the time to hand over the clothes to the Goonj office , Hyderabad. Mr. Parithosh explained me the various initiatives by the Goonj and gave a brief info on how Goonj works. I was very much impressed and promised him that I would come back with something more for the needy. 

I got a receipt too for the clothes I gave them. Hopefully, the clothes are put to good use for the needy requirements.

Cheers to Goonj

Vamsi