Panvallabh Welfare Foundation

Panvallabh Welfare Foundation is based out of Matunga, right on H.R. Mahajani Road. If you know the area, you know how it gets with the students and the shops around. We are up on the 7th floor of Madhuban Building. It’s a full floor, so there is plenty of room for us to move around, though it still feels crowded when we have a lot of supplies coming in. We handle a lot of welfare work from here. It's not fancy, just desks and chairs and a lot of lists of people who need a hand. The view from the window is mostly other buildings and the busy street below. Sometimes the elevator in Madhuban takes forever, so we end up waiting around a lot. We aren't some big city corporation with a glossy brochure. We just try to organize things so that help gets to where it needs to go. The staff here is mostly local people who know the Mumbai streets well. We drink a lot of tea while we go through the files. It's a lot of manual work, checking names and making sure everything is fair. We’ve been in this building for some time now. It’s a good spot for us because it’s central for the trains. Most days we are just trying to keep up with the phone calls and the paperwork that never seems to end. It is just honest work by normal people living in the city.