Naekai Foundation

If you go to Meenashi Amman Nagar in K.Pudur, look for No.1/178. We are right there on the first floor. Naekai Foundation is what it says on the sign out front. It’s a pretty standard office space. We have a few rooms where we handle all the foundation’s business. It’s not very big, but it’s enough for the five of us who work here. We spend a lot of our time on the phone or working on the computer. Since we are on the first floor, we get a good bit of air coming through the windows, which is nice in the afternoons. We started this foundation because we saw some gaps in how things were being handled locally. We don't have a lot of corporate rules. We just come in, do our work, and try to be helpful to whoever needs it. Sometimes we stay late to finish up some paperwork, and other times we leave early if things are quiet. The neighborhood is mostly families, so it’s a friendly place to be. We know the shopkeepers downstairs and the people across the street. It feels like a real community. We don't do much in the way of marketing. Most of our work comes from word of mouth or people just walking in. It’s a practical, no-nonsense kind of place. We just want to keep things going and do our part without making a big fuss.