Winters are beautiful times when we love curling up under blankets and sipping hot coffee inside our rooms. But we often forget about the less fortunate people for whom winter means suffering and shivering in the cold. The month of January might mean celebrations for the new year for a lot of us, but it is the peak of the winter season. So let’s make another resolution and make sure we donate some blankets and warm clothes to those of us who are less fortunate. Here are 5 NGOs where you can donate.
1. Cloth Box Foundation
Cloth box foundation is one of those NGOs that work with basic necessities. While donating clothes is deeply satisfying, there’s always the niggling apprehension that they won’t reach the right destination. By letting donors actually see the recipients’ via Facebook, CBF solves the problem of transparency with joyful simplicity.
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2. Project Sleepwell
Started by law graduates Shiven Varma and Arman Sood, in 2015, Project Sleepwell raises funds to buy and redistribute sleeping bags to the homeless in and around the Delhi NCR region. The project was born out of the idea that it is easier to carry a sleeping bag around, and also because they are more effective in insulating body heat.
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3. Uday Foundation
Every year since its foundation in 2007, the Uday Foundation donates blankets, dry ration, warm clothes, and dignity kits to the people who live on the streets or in night shelters in the Delhi NCR region as well as other parts of northern India.
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4. Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan
Every winter, this organisation makes efforts to build more night shelters for the homeless in Delhi, in collaboration with the Delhi government. These shelters are managed by the trained homeless community workers. They also have a Night Outs programme, where they reach out to the homeless twice a week, between 10pm and 4am.
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5. Goonj
Founded in 1999, Goonj was one of the first organisations to highlight the fact that clothing is a basic necessity. They operate in 21 states across India. They have an annual winter campaign, Odha Do Zindagi, where you can donate your old, but wearable, woollens, blankets, and other warm clothes to the poor.
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