Shripad Shrivallabh Satya Datta Foundation

Our place is in Mahavir Nagar, specifically Room 1 in Chawl B-4. It’s near Shravan Nagar on the New Link Road in Kandivali West. If you know Mumbai, you know how busy the Link Road gets at all hours of the day. We are right there in the middle of the local life. This foundation, Shripad Shrivallabh Satya Datta, operates out of this small space because it’s where we started and it works for us. It gets a bit cramped when more than three people visit at once, but we always find a way to make space. The chawl life is what it is, which means it is noisy and friendly and there is always something happening right outside the door. We spend most of our time organizing bits of paperwork and talking to the people who live nearby. It’s definitely not a fancy corporate setup with glass walls or air conditioning that actually works all the time. It’s just a room where we sit and handle the foundation’s business. Sometimes the rain makes the commute to the office a real mess, but we still open up. People drop by from the surrounding parts of Mumbai City quite often. We do not have a big team, just a few of us making sure things are taken care of. We like being in Kandivali. It feels like home to us and we just do our daily work here.