Bachpan Child Care Clinic

We spend a lot of time here at Bachpan Child Care Clinic near the Sai Mandir. It is right on the Sutarwadi Link Road, and if you know Pashan, you know how the traffic gets around Sai Chowk. Sometimes the noise from the street comes inside, but we are used to it by now. The clinic is basically a vaccination centre where parents bring their kids. You can hear babies crying quite often because nobody likes getting a shot. We have a few chairs in the waiting area that have seen better days. The walls are mostly plain, maybe a few posters about health stuff here and there. It gets dusty because of the road works outside, so someone is always wiping down the front desk. We open up in the morning and stay until the last parent leaves. It is not a fancy place, just a regular spot in the neighborhood. Being next to the temple is helpful because people use it as a landmark when they are lost. The Sutarwadi Link Road is long, and sometimes the GPS acts funny around here. We just keep the files organized and make sure the fridge for the vaccines is running right. It is a lot of routine work, checking dates and talking to tired moms and dads. Sometimes it feels like we spend more time cleaning up spilled water than anything else. That is just how it goes when you work with children every day in Pashan.