Dharti Ke Prahari Foundation

You can find us in Dilshad Colony at A-91-G-1. It is a busy residential area, and our foundation is right in the middle of it. We call ourselves Dharti Ke Prahari because we want to take care of the local environment. We aren't some big group with a lot of funding. It’s mostly just a few of us who care about our streets and the neighborhood. Our office is basically just a small room in a residential building. It’s crowded with supplies and some old furniture. We don't have a professional cleaning crew or anything, so we just sweep the place ourselves every morning. It feels more like a home than an office, which we like. We don’t have a big mission statement on the wall. We just look at the trash on the street or the lack of trees and try to figure out what we can do about it. It is hard work because not everyone cares as much as we do, but we keep at it anyway. Sometimes we spend the whole day just talking to shopkeepers about how to manage their waste. It isn't always exciting, but it is important. We don’t have any fancy titles. We are just people from the colony who wanted to do something useful with our time. That’s why we started this foundation in the first place. We just try to make things a little better for the people living here in Dilshad Colony.