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Mass Communication</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Mass_Communication" title="Indian Institute of Mass Communication">Indian Institute of Mass Communication</a>, New Delhi</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Founder Director, Goonj</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Founder and director of <a href="/wiki/Goonj_(NGO)" title="Goonj (NGO)">Goonj</a> and Gram Swabhimaan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Meenakshi</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Urvi</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ramon_Magsaysay_Award" title="Ramon Magsaysay Award">Ramon Magsaysay Award</a> 2015 <br />Ashoka Fellowship 2004<br /> Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2012</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Anshu Gupta</b> is an Indian entrepreneur. He founded the <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-governmental organisation">non-governmental organization</a> <a href="/wiki/Goonj_(NGO)" title="Goonj (NGO)">Goonj</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Anju_gupta_reference1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anju_gupta_reference1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goonj works on bridging urban and rural inequality. It does this by channelizing the urban surplus to initiate rural upliftment, disaster relief, and rehabilitation. Through Goonj, Anshu is building a parallel trash-based economy by creating barter between rural communities and urban surplus material.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Anshu has been recognized by the Ramon Magsaysay foundation for his "creative vision in transforming the culture of giving in India".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anshu_Gupta&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Anshu Gupta was born in <a href="/wiki/Meerut" title="Meerut">Meerut</a>. He spent his early years in <a href="/wiki/Chakrata" title="Chakrata">Chakrata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Banbasa" title="Banbasa">Banbasa</a> while his father was posted there in the Indian Army's <a href="/wiki/Military_Engineer_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Military Engineer Services">Military Engineer Services</a> (MES). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anshu_Gupta&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He worked as a freelance journalist after completing his schooling. He wrote about history, monuments and humanitarian issues. From 1992 to 1998, he worked with many organizations. He worked as a copywriter with Chaitra followed by Power Grid Corporation, and finally Escorts Communication.<sup id="cite_ref-insideiim_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-insideiim-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Goonj">Goonj</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anshu_Gupta&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Goonj"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Using cloth as a metaphor for other crucial but ignored needs, his ideology stated that <i>roti, kapda, makaan</i> are the three most essential individual needs. The first two are always in focus, but clothing never received the attention it deserved but is essential in maintaining individual dignity.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1999, he started Goonj with his wife Meenakshi and friends to work on that basic need. He started with 67 pieces of cloth collected with his wife and friends, at their home in <a href="/wiki/Sarita_Vihar" title="Sarita Vihar">Sarita Vihar</a>. The firm spread across 28 states and over 4000 villages, employing over 1000 workers.<sup id="cite_ref-insideiim_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-insideiim-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Clothing is the first visible sign of poverty".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is essential to satisfy basic clothing needs. Under Anshu's leadership, Goonj has taken ever-growing urban waste and used it as a tool to trigger development work on diverse issues in remote areas of India. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cloth_for_Work">Cloth for Work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anshu_Gupta&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cloth for Work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Under Goonj's initiative 'Cloth for Work', village communities across India work on their issues and get urban material for their efforts. The focus is on dignity and how cloth can help defend that dignity. Cloth for Work and other Goonj initiatives have received various national and international recognition.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goonj helps victims during natural calamities such as floods and earthquakes.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He is popularly known as the <i>clothing man of India</i> for his achievement bringing clothing into the map of development work.<sup id="cite_ref-Anshu_Reference1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anshu_Reference1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In "Cloth for Work", communities have built huge bamboo bridges, dug up wells, have done bunding of acres of land, developed small irrigation canals, have built drainage systems, built village schools and have taken up massive exercises of repairing roads, developing water harvesting systems to cleaning up water bodies. All these works are done but by making people understand their own community power and giving old usable old material as a reward.<sup id="cite_ref-KnowYourStar_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KnowYourStar-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="School_to_School">School to School</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anshu_Gupta&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: School to School"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Goonj's award-winning School to School initiative is addressing the educational needs of thousands of remote & resource starved village/ slum schools by channelizing under-utilised material of city's affluent schools not as a thing to distribute but as a tool to bring about comprehensive behaviour change in the recipients and the contributors.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Not_Just_a_Piece_of_Cloth">Not Just a Piece of Cloth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anshu_Gupta&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Not Just a Piece of Cloth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Anshu initiated the "Not Just a Piece of Cloth" campaign after the <a href="/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami" title="2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami">2004 tsunami</a>. According to him, "we dealt with more than 100 trucks of post-disaster cloth wastage on the roads of Tamil Nadu. The unwearable cloth from this lot was turned into <a href="/wiki/Cloth_menstrual_pad" title="Cloth menstrual pad">cloth menstrual pads</a> ...".<sup id="cite_ref-KnowYourStar_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KnowYourStar-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is seen that in the absence of a clean piece of cloth, millions of women in villages and city slums use rags, sand, ash, etc. to deal with their menses. A humble piece, of cotton cloth can save a woman from a lot of indignity, embarrassment and infections.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rahat">Rahat</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anshu_Gupta&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Rahat"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An earthquake in <a href="/wiki/Uttarkashi" title="Uttarkashi">Uttarkashi</a> triggered Gupta's involvement with disaster relief and rehabilitation. For nearly two decades, he has been working on disasters from earthquakes to tsunamis, cyclones, and floods. Goonj's initiative "Rahat" evolved into an active network of stakeholders in rural and urban India, ensuring timely response for generating need-based disaster relief and rehabilitation efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recognition">Recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anshu_Gupta&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ramon_Magsaysay_Award" title="Ramon Magsaysay Award">Ramon Magsaysay Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ashoka and Schwab Fellowship<sup id="cite_ref-Anshu_Reference1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anshu_Reference1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-KnowYourStar_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KnowYourStar-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>CNN IBN Real Heroes award in the women welfare segment<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award by <a href="/wiki/Schwab_Foundation_for_Social_Entrepreneurship" title="Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship">Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship</a><sup id="cite_ref-SocialAward_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SocialAward-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Forbes magazine listed Gupta as one of India's most powerful rural entrepreneurs<sup id="cite_ref-Anju_gupta_reference1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anju_gupta_reference1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Curry stone design prize<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>AIMA (All India Management Association) Award<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Marico Innovation Award<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a 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