A wardrobe packed with clothes, bags and hats waiting to be sorted

Every pre-loved garment deserves a second life.

Green Closet is a youth-led clothing recycle project in Delhi NCR. We collect what you no longer wear, pass it on, and talk openly about periods while we do it.

Donate your clothes How it started

Sustainable clothing recycle project · Since 2025

2025The year a 15-year-old turned her birthday into a donation drive
100+Women and girls reached in village awareness sessions
Delhi
NCRSocieties and schools where we run collection drives
9,000 tMenstrual waste India generates every month — the gap we work on
Our story

It began as a birthday wish.

Green Closet started in 2025 when Anika, then 15, asked for donations instead of gifts. One simple belief held it together: every pre-loved garment deserves a second life.

The first push happened on Instagram — swapping "throw it away" for reuse, repurpose, donate.

What began as one drive is now a community. We collect clothes, run sessions in schools and villages, and talk about fast fashion, textile waste and menstrual dignity in the same breath.

AnikaFounder, Green Closet

Anika speaking at a Green Closet session, with the birthday message that started the project Folding donated clothes into a collection box Handing over a box of donated clothes to children at a community centre
What we do

Three ways clothes and confidence get a second life.

Collection drives

Green Closet boxes go into residential societies and schools across Delhi NCR. Families drop in what they no longer wear.

  • Society and school drop-off boxes
  • Sorting by students and volunteers
  • Clothes passed on, never binned

Sakhi sessions

Interactive school sessions on puberty, menstrual hygiene and reusable cloth pads — plus booklets and pads to take home.

  • Run with the Pinkshe Foundation
  • Questions welcome, no awkwardness
  • Booklets and pad distribution

Awareness that travels

Digital content on first periods, nutrition, cloth pads and the myths around them — written for people our age, in plain words.

  • Instagram explainers and myth-busting
  • Village sessions beyond the city
  • Fast fashion and textile waste
Sakhi Programme

A safe space for girls to talk about periods.

With the Pinkshe Foundation, Green Closet took the work past clothing — into menstrual awareness, access and dignity for girls who are usually left out of the conversation.

  • 9,000 tMenstrual waste generated in India every month
  • 60–70%Pads that end up disposed in open areas
  • 50%Rural homes with proper toilets
  • 3–5 yrsHow long one reusable cloth pad lasts

Figures shared in Green Closet's menstrual awareness material.

Students at a menstrual awareness drive holding their Sakhi kits A classroom session in progress during the Sakhi Programme Green Closet graphic: India generates 9,000 tonnes of menstrual waste a month — choose reusable over disposable
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