Gita & Susil Kumar Das Foundation

Our office for the Gita & Susil Kumar Das Foundation is located at Number 21 on the Shyamashree Pally Main Road. This is in the Pononachandanpukur area of 24 Parganas North. It is a busy part of the district and there is always something going on right outside our front door. The foundation was named after Gita and Susil Kumar Das and we try to keep things simple and honest here. We do not have a lot of staff, just a couple of people who handle the daily operations. The building is a regular house that we have converted into a workspace. It gets a bit noisy with the traffic on the main road but you get used to it after you have been here a few weeks. We spend most of our mornings sorting through mail and answering the phone. There is no fancy corporate structure or big bosses here. We just do the work that needs to be done. Sometimes the electricity goes out in the afternoon so we just sit on the porch and wait for it to come back on. Most of the people who come to see us are from the surrounding neighborhoods. Pononachandanpukur is a big place but it feels small when you know everyone on your street. We do not do any advertising or anything like that. People just find us by word of mouth. It is an honest living and we like being part of the community in North 24 Parganas.