Parakashtha Welfare Foundation

We spend most of our time here at Block No. 3 in Ganesh Vihar. It’s a quiet enough part of Anand Colony in Jabalpur, though things get busy around the front door during the middle of the day. The office isn't anything fancy, just some desks, chairs, and stacks of files that seem to grow every week. Being in Madhya Pradesh, the summers get really hot, so we usually have the fans going full speed while we talk to people who drop by. Parakashtha Welfare Foundation is basically just a few of us trying to sort through local issues and help where it’s needed. We don't have a big corporate team or anything like that. Most mornings start with cleaning up the workspace and checking the mail. The address at 482002 is easy to find if you know the colony well. We usually have tea around eleven and talk about what needs doing for the neighborhood. Sometimes it feels like there’s more work than hours in the day, but we just keep at it. People from the nearby streets know us by now. It’s a lot of paperwork and sitting down with folks to hear what’s going on in their lives. We aren't trying to change the whole world overnight, just trying to be useful here in Jabalpur. The walls could probably use a new coat of paint, but the current ones hold up fine. It's just a regular place where regular work gets done every day.