IGBS was the authorized centre for Vastra-Samman campaign, whose objective was to organize awareness cum collection camp during Joy... of Giving of Week (2nd - 8th Oct 2011).

This  was a nationwide campaign and in this week Staff Members and Students were motivated to join as volunteers and organize the Collection Centre for Joy of Giving Week at IGBS.

Under the Joy of Giving week IGBS targeted two immediate campaigns for GOONJ, an NGO

A bit about GOONJ..
In a world where issues right from domestic violence to global warming are discussed with equal fervor, there is scant attention to the basic need of clothing. Over the last ten years GOONJ has grown as a mass movement among the urban and rural masses, mobilizing cloth and repositioning it as an important resource for rural India rather than wastage fit only for charity. Today anyone irrespective of educational, income, social or cultural background, is becoming a part of this movement.

In the villages, we started off with the aim of trying to address a basic need, freeing up the meager resources of the recipients, for other pressing needs. Today we are not just addressing a basic need but are using cloth as an entry point into the lives of people; to address other important needs like health, education, employment generation etc.

A. Vastra Samman & School to School; These were pan – India campaigns that GOONJ.. had launched during Joy of Giving Week (2nd -8th Oct). The focus was primarily on newspaper collection apart from other material. These papers would be sold off to raise financial resource for GOONJ initiatives. The entire operations involved recurrent expenses in transportation of material to remote villages, storage space, manpower needed for sorting, packing etc... And that's where this new approach helped GOONJ in generating resources for their work.