Evergreen Brooming Foundation

Evergreen Brooming Foundation is based right here in Kumarpurmanjaura. It’s a place most people around here know well, though maybe not by the foundation name specifically. We spend a lot of our time just looking at the streets and the local spots that need a bit of a cleanup. It’s dusty work, especially when the weather gets dry and the wind kicks up. We started doing this because we live here too and it didn’t feel right to just walk past the mess every day. We aren't some big group from the city with uniforms or anything like that. It’s just a few of us who decided that brooming and keeping things green was a good way to spend our time. Sometimes we are out there early before the sun gets too hot, and other times we finish up late when the shops are starting to close. We don't have a big office with air conditioning. Most of our meetings happen right on the street or at someone’s house in the village. It’s simple work, really. We talk to the neighbors about not throwing trash in the drains and we try to plant a few things where they will grow. It takes a lot of patience because things don’t change overnight. You clean one spot and the next day there’s more work to do. But that is just how it goes in a place like this. We’re just regular people from Kumarpurmanjaura trying to make the place look a bit better for everyone.