Hiserve Foundation

Hiserve Foundation is basically run from our place over in Marathon Nagari, which is part of the Shirgaon area in Ambarnath. If you know this part of Thane, you know it’s a bit of a distance from the main city, but it’s grown a lot lately. We are located in Building B, room 401. It’s just a regular apartment that we use for all our foundation work. A few of us who live in the complex started talking one evening about how we could help the local community more effectively. That’s how this whole thing got moving. We don’t have a big staff or anything like that, just some family members and friends who put in their spare time after their regular jobs are done. The humidity in Thane can be quite something, so we do a lot of our planning in the late hours when it’s cooler. We deal with whatever comes up in the neighborhood, whether it’s helping someone with paperwork or organizing a small local drive for clothes or books. It’s a very simple operation. We aren't professional charity workers; we are just residents who think it's important to look after the people living around us. Most of the time, the table in the living room is covered in notes and papers. It’s a bit cluttered, but we know where everything is. We just keep at it because it feels right to help out.