About & guidelines

Why this exists

Since June 2026, thousands of people have gathered at Jantar Mantar over exam leaks, unemployment and government accountability. Around that gathering, a second and quieter thing has been happening: organisations, local businesses, NGOs and ordinary individuals have turned up with food, water, first aid, legal help, transport, shelter and supplies — mostly unasked, and mostly unnoticed.

That work usually disappears the moment a protest ends. Nobody writes it down, so nobody remembers it, and the people who did it go back to being invisible and underfunded. This is an attempt to write it down while it's still happening.

What it's for

• Recognition. To put these names in one place, on the record.
• Support now. If you want to donate, send supplies or volunteer, every entry carries a way to reach them. You deal with them directly.
• Support later. Long after the crowds go home, these are the people worth funding, hiring, buying from and partnering with. Keep the list. Use it next year.

Who makes the cut

The bar is deliberately low and deliberately specific. An entry belongs here if it meets all four:

• They gave real, material help to people at or around the protests — food, water, medical care, legal support, transport, shelter, supplies, childcare, phone charging, documentation. Practical things, not statements of support.
• They gave it freely, or at cost. Not as a paid service, and not in exchange for anything.
• Someone can point to it. A photo, a post, a thread, a news mention, or a credible first-hand account from someone who was there. Not rumour.
• They can be reached. A phone number, an email, or a public account, so the listing is actually useful to anyone reading it.

Size is irrelevant. A one-person chai stall counts exactly as much as a national NGO. Nothing here is ranked.

What doesn't make the cut

• Posting, tweeting or issuing solidarity statements, with no material help behind it.
• Help given as a commercial or promotional exercise — a discount campaign, a branded activation, anything where visibility was the point.
• Political parties and their affiliated wings. Not a judgement on them; this list is about people who had nothing to gain, and including parties turns it into a scoreboard.
• Anyone charging above the usual rate to people at the protests.
• Second-hand claims nobody can substantiate.
• Anyone who has asked not to be listed.

Adding someone

Suggestions are collected in the open and then added by hand. Three ways in — any of them is fine:

• The Reddit thread The main place nominations are discussed and sanity-checked in public. Link coming soon.
• Email Write to contact@thegoodoneslist.com. Please include the name, what they did, roughly when, and a way to reach them.
• Their own account If the group posts publicly, send the handle or page — that's usually the fastest way to verify an entry and get the details right.

Whatever the route, the more specific the better. "They helped a lot" is hard to act on; "they provided water for free on 21 July" becomes an entry.

If you're nominating a person, not an organisation

Check first that they're comfortable being named on a public website. Some people who help at protests have good reasons not to want their name searchable.

Corrections and removals

If you're listed here and would rather not be (for any reason) — just send an email and it will be taken down.