Alaf Ltd, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania

We are Alaf Ltd, and our office is located in House No Gold/157, on Road 15 in Sahara City. This is in the Jawaharnagar area of Mango, Jamshedpur. Even though our name mentions Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania, this house in Jamshedpur is where we do our local business from. Sahara City is a decent township, so the roads are a bit better than the usual narrow lanes in Mango. The house is a standard residential building that we've converted into our working space. We use the front rooms for the desks and the files. It’s a quiet street for the most part, except when the kids are playing outside in the evenings. We handle a lot of the coordination for our African interests from this very spot. It’s mostly just phone calls and lots of paperwork. We don't have a big staff here, just a few of us who know how the business works. The house has a small gate and a bit of a garden area that we don't always have time to look after. Inside, it’s just a regular office setup with a few computers and a printer that occasionally acts up. We don't have a fancy lobby or a receptionist. If you knock on the door, one of us will just come and open it. It’s a very informal and honest way of working. We’ve been in this house for quite a while and it feels like home now.