Prathanam Sahayog Micro Foundation

Prathanam Sahayog Micro Foundation is based right out of house number 177 in Narayan Vihar. It’s over in the Sikandra area of Agra. If you’ve ever walked down this street, you know it’s mostly just homes and a few small shops here and there. We aren't in a big glass building or a business park. It is just a regular house where we’ve set up a couple of rooms to handle our work. The neighborhood is usually quiet, except when the school bus comes through in the afternoon. We have some plastic chairs for when people stop by to talk, and the fan in the main room makes a bit of a clicking sound that we’ve just gotten used to over the months. Being in Agra, it gets incredibly hot, so we usually keep the curtains closed to stay cool while we go through the files. We don’t have a receptionist or anything like that. Usually, whoever is closest to the door just gets up to see who it is. We’ve been at this address for a bit now and the postman knows us well enough to just slide the mail under the gate. It’s a very local way of doing things, nothing like those big offices you see in the city center. We just manage the daily tasks as they come and try to keep things moving along without too much stress.