Aaj Aass Parivar Foundation

The Aaj Aass Parivar Foundation is based in Nagpur, specifically in the area known as Hamalpura. We operate out of the home of Ratna Bisan Chauhan. It is a very ordinary house in a very ordinary neighborhood, which is exactly how we like it. We aren't a big institution with a glass building. We are just a group of friends and neighbors who wanted to form a parivar, or a family, to help each other out. Nagpur can get incredibly hot in the summer months, so we usually find ourselves working late in the evening when the temperature drops a bit. Our office is really just a room with a ceiling fan and a few plastic chairs. We don't have any fancy brochures or a website to show off what we do. People just know us from around the neighborhood. We keep our accounts in simple books and talk to people face-to-face. It feels more real that way. Sometimes we have long discussions about small things, but that’s just how it goes when you’re working with people you’ve known for years. We aren’t experts in anything; we’re just folks who live here and want to do something useful with our time. It’s not always easy, and sometimes we get behind on our paperwork, but we eventually catch up. It’s just a small, local effort by people who care about their hometown of Nagpur.