Aniket Rasal Foundation

This foundation started out of a small space in Kurar Village, Malad East. We are located in Shiv Sagar Chawl, which is a very busy and lively area in Mumbai. If you live around here, you know how it is—neighbors always talking, kids playing in the lanes, and everything feeling very close together. Aniket Rasal lives and works right here, so there isn't much of a boundary between life and work. We don't have a fancy corporate office with glass walls. It’s just a room in the chawl where we keep our records and meet with people from the community. It gets pretty hot in the afternoons, but we have a fan that keeps things moving. People just walk in when they have a problem or need some advice. We don't really have set business hours in the way big companies do; if the door is open, we are here. Sometimes it’s a bit chaotic with everyone coming and going at once. We try to keep a log of what we do, but sometimes a notebook gets misplaced or we forget to write something down immediately. It’s a very local operation. We know most of the people on our street and they know us. It’s not always easy, and the space is tight, but it’s where we belong. We just take things as they come and try to be helpful where we can, without any big fuss or complicated systems that just slow everything down for everyone.