Addhistaan Foundation

We’re located in Goregaon West, specifically in Mahindra Gardens on S.V. Road. It’s a busy spot in Mumbai, and you can always hear the traffic from the road. The Addhistaan Foundation isn’t something we planned for years. It just sort of happened because a few of us in Motilal Nagar wanted to do something productive. We have a small space in the B-2 block. It’s nothing special, just a few desks and some files. We don’t have a big staff. It’s mostly us doing the work whenever we aren’t at our regular jobs. We look at local issues. Sometimes it’s about the environment, like trying to keep our streets a bit cleaner, and other times it’s helping out a local school with supplies. We don't have a massive budget. We just do what we can with what we have. People in the building know us, and sometimes they drop off things they don't need anymore so we can give them to others. It’s a very informal way of working. We don't like meetings that go on for hours. We’d rather just go out and fix something. S.V. Road is always moving, and we’re just trying to keep up. We don't pretend to have all the answers. We’re just trying to be useful in our own neighborhood. It’s simple, and it works for us.