Environment and Animal

Goonj is a voluntary organisation and works throughout the year to channelize urban underutilized material to the rural/slum India.

GOONJ (means an echo), founded in 1999, a multi-award-winning social enterprise, uses the cities’ discard for fueling wide-spread development work across village India. Goonj reaches this material to remote rural communities, creating barter between two new currencies, urban underutilized material and the wisdom, efforts of rural communities, to solve some of their neglected issues around water, sanitation, agriculture, education, local infrastructure, access, etc.

While dealing with more than 5500+ tons of material annually, through Goonj’s focused initiatives, every year village communities take up 6200+ development activities and their reward is carefully designed and made packs of material for their family’s needs. Over the last 2 decades, the work has now spread across 26 states and union territories of India with 13+ offices involving thousands of people in cities and villages. Goonj’s founder Mr. Anshu Gupta was conferred with the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2015 for his enterprising leadership and for changing the culture of Giving in India.

The Welfare of Stray Dogs (WSD) is an animal welfare NGO carrying out the Animal Birth Control programme of sterilizing and vaccinating stray dogs in Mumbai. The objectives of this programme are to control the population of stray dogs and more importantly to reduce human rabies deaths. Our other activities include an on-site first-aid programme, rabies awareness & immunization drives, education and awareness programme and adoption Programme.