TEDxSRM - Anshu Gupta - Making Clothing A Matter of Concern

Anshu Gupta is an Ashoka Fellow and the executive director of Goonj, a primarily volunteer run organization based in New Delhi that provides clothes and other basic amenities to millions across India by turning one person's waste into a resource for another. In 1998 Anshu left his job as a manager of corporate communications in a large Indian company to found Goonj and travel India in order to understand the needs of the people of his country. From collecting clothes from his own house, relatives and friends and distributing them on the roads in the chilly winter nights of Delhi, his dream has come a long way.

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[siangteh]

Clothing is used to shield we humans from the elements, and one of the factors that enable human to achieve longevity compare with our primitive ancestors. Good subject.

[Vaibik]

And that fact about sanitary pads for women/girls is a very good point. Something worth thinking. But I am afraid if the government starts a project, there will be people more interested in doing scams rather than providing this necessary gift to our ladies (whom we call "sisters" formally and hypocritically).

But still, even after that "sure-to-be" scam, if our ladies get sanitary pads/clothes, it will be worth. (We need to go a long way before we make scam-proof projects!)

[Vaibik]

Very good talk. Should be an eye-opener for many of us.

Especially the fact that "disposing/descarding our old clothes should not be considered a donation" is very much that I alwasy think. In my family, we have a routine to distribute blankets to poor people on the street (just in any area of a big city one can find people living on the street) in winter especially. So I very well understand him.

And I don't like to give OLD clothes/shoes to poors-if it's not good for me how come for them?