Are you planning to discard old clothes? You can donate them instead and bring a smile on the face of someone by logging on to www.foryou.org.in.

City-based NGO Citizens' Foundation on Sunday launched the website at Chamber Bhavan in Ranchi to collect used items, including clothes and utensils, through crowdsourcing, and distribute them among the underprivileged.

Everester and Padma Shri Premlata Agarwal, who clicked to launch the website, said: "Even if something is of no use to you, it can help somebody else. The site will help those who are ready to donate their old articles but do not know the avenue."

Ganesh Reddy, secretary of Citizens' Foundation, said around 550 people across Ranchi expressed their willingness to donate something or the other within hours after the launch of the site at 11am.

How does the site work? Simple, he said.

"If one goes to the site, a box 'Donate' will pop up on the home page. On clicking it, the box will lead to another page, where the donor will have to fill in details of the items he wants to donate, along with his mobile number and e-mail address. Our representatives will get back to the donor to collect the articles."

Reddy added: "Initially, only people of Ranchi can avail this donation service. However, we have plans to extend it across the state and the country after developing the required logistics."<>

Siddhinath Singh, national president of Rashtriya Seva Bharti, a RSS affiliated organization who was present in the occasion, said, “It is an exemplary initiative. Many people wish to donate but fail to do so thinking how the receiver will feel to receive old things. The site will emerge as a boon to them.�

Through the website http://www.foryou.org.in the visitors to volunteer under various social service programmes as the organization (Citizen Foundation) also works in rural development sector and has pan Jharkhand presence. The visitors would also be allowed to make financial donations through the site.

Social worker Vishnu Lohia, secretary of Seva Sadan and also associated with a charitable trust, praised the initiative and expressed hopes that more and more people came forward for donations.