Arthlay Micro Service Foundation

If you find yourself in Purba Vill Gobranadia, you might see our small sign. We are at Sushanta Sarkar’s place. It’s a quiet village in West Bengal, specifically in the 741103 area. We call ourselves the Arthlay Micro Service Foundation. Mostly we just handle small services that people in the village need but can’t always get easily. It could be help with forms or small financial bits. We aren't a big bank or anything like that. It’s just us in a small room with a table. Sushanta is usually around to help out. We started this because we saw our neighbors struggling with things that should be simple. The roads here aren't the best, so we try to keep things close to home. People walk over from the nearby fields to talk to us. We don't have fancy uniforms or big signs. It’s just a practical thing we do. Sometimes we don't have all the answers right away, but we try to find out. It’s been a learning process for us too. We like the pace of life here. It allows us to actually talk to people instead of just rushing them through. We keep our records in big binders and try to stay organized. It’s just a small local foundation doing what we can with what we have available to us right now. It is a bit of a struggle sometimes but we like the work.