Pooja Ice Factory

Pooja Ice Factory is located right near the Anand Nagar School in Khairthal. Because we are near the school, we see a lot of kids hanging around when the final bell rings in the afternoon. This place isn't like a fancy cafe; it’s more of a working spot where we handle a lot of ice and cold stuff. The hum of the cooling units is the main sound we hear all day long. It can get pretty loud when all the machinery is going at once. We usually start very early in the morning, before the sun is even up, to get everything ready for the day’s deliveries. The floor is almost always a little bit wet because of the ice melting or being moved around. We wear heavy boots so we do not slip. Sometimes local shopkeepers come by to pick up blocks of ice for their own coolers. The building itself is an older one, and we have to keep up with repairs on the walls and the wiring quite often. It’s a lot of physical work, lifting heavy crates and moving things into the cold storage. We don't really have a lot of decorations on the walls, just the basic stuff we need to get the job done. It’s cold inside even when it’s boiling hot out on the street. Sometimes we sit outside on the bench just to warm up our bones for a few minutes before going back in.