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Anshu Gupta
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Anshu Gupta

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Founding Goonj to connect urban surplus with community development.

Community projects · School to School

Born
1970
Birthplace
Meerut

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Anshu Gupta

Anshu Gupta is an Indian social entrepreneur who founded Goonj with his wife Meenakshi. Its programmes use material resources to support locally chosen development work.

Early life

Early work

Worked as a freelance journalist before jobs in advertising and communications.

Career

  1. 1999

    Goonj

    Started the organisation with a small collection of clothing.

  2. 2000s

    Community programmes

    Expanded material reuse into disaster response and village projects.

Selected work

Community projects

Links material support with work such as repairing roads and improving water systems.

School to School

Launched an initiative redistributing educational materials.

Beyond work

Family collaboration

Established Goonj together with Meenakshi Gupta.

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