Pasmanda Mansuri Development Research Foundation

We are located in the Mandai area of Mahendru, specifically in Gaighat, which is part of Sampatchak in Patna. Pasmanda Mansuri Development Research Foundation is run by Sri Princefirojahmad. This is not your typical research center with big labs and people in white coats. It is a small operation in a very busy and crowded part of Bihar. We mostly look into the daily lives of the people in our own community to see what is actually happening on the ground. Patna is a huge, noisy city, and it is very easy for the Pasmanda community to get lost in all the noise. We spend a lot of our time just walking through the streets and talking to families in their homes. We want to know why some children are not going to school or why a certain block does not have decent water. It is not fancy work at all. Our version of research is often just sitting in someone’s kitchen with a small notebook and a pen. We do not have big grants or any corporate sponsors helping us out. We just have a lot of local knowledge and a real desire to see things get a little better. Sometimes the information we collect is just a list of names and problems written on scraps of paper. It can be a bit disorganized at times, but we are learning as we go. We are just trying to understand our own struggles so we can help each other out.