Gokhale Charity Foundation

Our office is at B-2/29, Vikrant Khand. It’s right in the Gomtinagar area of Lucknow. If you know this part of the city, you know it’s grown a lot lately. We’ve been at this spot for some time now. It’s just a regular building where we handle the foundation's business. It’s nothing like those big glass towers you see in some parts of town. We have a small team of local people who show up every day to get things done. Most of what we do is just organizing and making sure charity stuff gets to where it needs to go. It involves a lot of phone calls and writing things down in big ledgers. Sometimes the traffic in Gomtinagar makes it hard for people to reach us on time, but we just wait. We aren't in a big hurry. We have a few old fans that keep the air moving when it's muggy outside. It’s a practical workspace. We don’t have a receptionist or a fancy waiting room. If someone comes by, they just sit with us and talk. We like it that way because it feels more personal. Being in Uttar Pradesh, there is always a lot of work to be done. We just take it one day at a time. It’s not always easy, but it’s what we do. We just want to be useful to the community around us.