Ahalya Welfare Foundation

We operate out of house number 547 in the Sheetlapuram area of Raja Ji Puram. It’s a quiet residential spot, which makes it a nice place to handle the welfare projects we have going on. Most of the time, we are just coordinating different bits of help for people who come by. It’s not like those big corporate offices you see downtown; it’s basically just a room set up with what we need to stay organized. A lot of our neighbors know us, and sometimes they drop in to ask about what we’re doing for the local area. The Raja Ji Puram neighborhood has changed a lot over the years, but we’ve stayed here in this same spot. We spend a lot of our time on the phone or writing things down in ledgers. It gets a bit cluttered with papers and donated items sometimes, but we know where everything is. People come to us for various kinds of support, and we just do what we can with the resources we’ve got at the moment. It isn't always smooth, and sometimes we run out of space, but that’s just how it is when you’re running a small foundation from a house. We don’t have fancy uniforms or a big front desk. It’s just us trying to be useful to the folks around Sheetlapuram whenever a need pops up that we can actually help with. It is a simple life and we like the work.