Coimbatore: In a noble initiative, SNR Sons Charitable Trust has joined hands with NGO Goonj to mobilise used educational materials from Coimbatore to help rural kids in India.
Coimbatore: In a noble initiative, SNR Sons Charitable Trust has joined hands with NGO Goonj to mobilise used educational materials from Coimbatore to help rural kids in India.
At an event held today at SNR educational institutions, Founder of Goonj, Anshu Gupta launched the School-to-School initiative in the presence of Swathy Rohit, Founder, School Basix and COO, SNR Sons’ Charitable Trust.
Briefing on the initiative, Anshu Gupta informed "A child in an urban region gets a new lunch box every year not because it is old, but there is a new design or a character (lunch-boxes stickers) in the market. In many houses, water bottles are disposed before its time for recycling, just because a new one is bought. Also, unused but still wearable clothes are dumped or burned in many urban areas in India."
"Contrary to this, the underprivileged lacks the materials to study and the opportunity to elevate themselves. The same resources and materials an urban child disposes can take care of the needs of the underprivileged kids", he added.
He said Goonj focuses not only on collecting these surplus urban materials and providing it to the needy but also on sensitizing kids in urban areas and in private schools about the requirements of the rural Indian students and kids just like them, and how through their share, the lesser privileged can also become successful.
Through the initiative, educational materials like school books, note books, stationery to school bags, boxes, water bottles etc, all the under-utilized materials will be collected with the help of regional partners, he informed.
Expressing his gratitude to the benevolent members of Coimbatore Textile Industry for contributing to the to the clothing needs of the rural-students in India, Anshu opined that "There can be a very good optimum usage of everything."
Commenting on the initiative, Swathy Rohit, CEO of SNR Sons Charitable Trust, said , "We have reached personally to every single school who can supply urban-surplus materials.We will continue our efforts to mobilize materials and ship it to areas where they would convert it to different forms.”