Applications Invited for Goonj Grassroots Fellowship 2022-23

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About the Organization

Goonj envisions to grow as an idea across regions, economies and countries using urban discard as a tool to alleviate poverty and enhance the dignity of the underprivileged people of the world. Address basic but neglected issues of the poor by involving them in evolving their own solutions with dignity and urban material as reward.

Goonj aim to recognize and value the potential of local resource and traditional wisdom of people. Our focus is concentrated on the receiver’s dignity instead of the donor’s pride. We promote circular economy by ensuring maximum use of each material. We value collaborative efforts with partner organizations to increase effectiveness and scale.

Goonj views every entity as equal stakeholder in the process of development rather than observing hierarchical relationships.

In the race of development we all are too focused on machines i.e. the big and known issues, ignoring the needles- the most important basic needs.

About the Fellowship

Most opportunities and resources in the development sector are easily available to youth from the cities, be it training workshops, conferences, fellowships, funds, exposure to new ideas or simply guidance.. And yet youngsters from the villages, smaller districts and towns of India are the ones who go and work on the ground in both urban and rural areas. Becoming the foot soldiers of development work.

Goonj with its Grassroots Fellowship aims to reach out to this resilient force of youth and create a ground for their nurturing and fine tuning. Our goal is to value what they bring to the world - their inherent understanding of the people, their resilience of working in the toughest circumstances, their hunger to make it a better world for their own families and future. This youth is deeply invested in the change they seek to bring about. It thus makes sense to work closely on their personal and professional development to ensure that the development work in future has a force of people who have the skills, mindset and determination to work long term on issues that are bothering us today.

Goonj Grassroot Fellowship is a year long programme, where fellows will be working in various areas by engaging with the communities on ground. During the one year, fellows interact with various communities from villages as well as cities and get a deeper understanding of the realities and devise ways to act upon the needs of the communities by engaging the communities.

The one year Goonj Grassroots Fellowship includes:

› Learning in-depth about issues like infrastructural development, menstrual health, education, livelihood and disaster relief-rehabilitation etc.

› Working on ground with Goonj operational and field teams in PAN India

› Capacity building workshops, shadowing experience with sector specialists apart from hands on training about key skills like communication, financial planning, monitoring and evaluation etc.

Eligibility

• Minimum of Matriculation
• Age: 21 to 35 yrs, as on 20th November, 2020.
• Open for only Indian Citizens

Deadline

December 15, 2021

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