Hope For Change Foundation

We are the Hope For Change Foundation, based in Raigarh. Our office is actually at Ashwani Pradhan’s house, which is C-5 in the Gokul Dham area. This is over in Bade Rampur. It’s a nice residential part of Chattisgarh. The 496001 area is pretty calm compared to the main market. We have set up a space in the house where we can sit and do our work. It’s not a big corporate building, just a regular home. We have some shelves for our files and a couple of desks. Raigarh can get really hot in the summer, so we mostly stay indoors during the afternoon. We see the neighbors walking their dogs or kids playing in the street while we are working. It’s a very grounded way to run things. We don’t have a receptionist or a big lobby. If you come by, you just knock on the door. We spend a lot of time on the phone or just organizing things on the computer. It’s a simple life here. We don’t really do anything flashy. Most of our days are spent just keeping up with the day-to-day requirements. It’s a practical setup that allows us to stay close to the community. We’ve been here for a while and the people in Gokul Dham are used to us being around. It is just a basic local setup.