Rampooti Shiksha Foundation

Rampooti Shiksha Foundation is located in the Empire Estate complex over in Chinchwad. We’re in the P4 building, right at Flat 1202. If you’ve ever been to Empire Estate, you know it’s a huge place with lots of buildings and people everywhere. It feels like a small city on its own. We’ve been operating from here for a while now. The space is basically a home office where we manage everything related to the foundation. We focus on education because that’s what seems most needed in this part of Pune. There are so many bright kids around who just need a bit of a push or some extra resources that their parents can’t always manage. We spend a lot of our time going through paperwork and meeting with folks from the neighborhood. It’s not always easy keeping things organized when you’re working out of an apartment, but we make it work. The building is usually pretty lively, with kids playing downstairs and neighbors chatting in the hallways. We like being part of a real community like this instead of being tucked away in some cold office park. It keeps us grounded and reminds us why we started this in the first place. Some days are slow and others are a bit chaotic with people dropping in, but we just take it as it comes. It’s just us doing what we can with what we have right here in the middle of Chinchwad.