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NORTH AMERICAN Newsline                                          SEPTEMBER 26, 2025        |  The Indian Eye 26


                 Goonj Launches Climate + Circularity



                          Hub in NYC, Introducing Global



                                             Framework SARRD




        OUR BUREAU                                                                                            opment?” said Bill Drayton, Found-
                                                                                                              er, Chair & CEO of Ashoka.
        New York, NY
                                                                                                                  At the hub, Goonj will present its
              s climate emergencies inten-                                                                    SARRD framework — Societal Alli-
              sify worldwide, Goonj — an                                                                      ance for Resilience and Response
        AIndia-based organization with                                                                        to Disasters — a model to reimag-
        26 years of pioneering work across                                                                    ine disaster response and resilience
        South Asia in circular development                                                                    through community ownership, dig-
        and disaster resilience — is launch-                                                                  nity, and circularity. Goonj aims to
        ing  the  Goonj Climate +  Circulari-                                                                 build out its SARRD framework
        ty Hub (C+C Hub) during Climate                                                                       alongside peer organisations across
        Week in New York City. The C+C                                                                        Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
        Hub responds to a deep gap in glob-                                                                   “The biggest resource in any disaster
        al climate dialogue: the absence of                                                                   is human potential. Yet, too often,
        frontline  voices  and lived  wisdom                                                                  communities  are reduced  to  recipi-
        from communities most impacted by                                                                     ents of aid rather than recognized as
        disasters. Located in the Lower East                                                                  experts in their own resilience. The
        Side’s Satellite Gallery (Sept 23–27),                                                                Climate + Circularity Hub and SAR-
        the Climate + Circularity Hub will                                                                    RD are about changing that para-
        feature workshops, performances,   Dignity, opened up in a new par-  that sparks and enables thousands to   digm,” said Anshu Gupta, Goonj
        screenings, and dialogues designed to   ticipatory format. As Bill Drayton,   dream and become community-re-  Founder.
        invite co-creation from climate lead-  Founder, Chair & CEO of Ashoka,   defining change makers. How many   Through this hub, Goonj invites
        ers, media, and the public.       remarked in Goonj’s 100 Stories of   people in the world do you know who   practitioners, funders, artists, and in-
            The Hub will also host Goonj   Change book, “Anshu is one of the   have created a new currency or who   stitutions to rethink resilience — and
        founder Anshu Gupta’s travelling   world’s best social entrepreneurs. He   have opened up a framework-chang-  to join in building coalitions that ex-
        photo exhibition, Of Disaster And   has created a simple, powerful engine   ing redefinition of essentials of devel-  tend far beyond Climate Week.

















































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