Shreevenkateshwara Guru Swami Social Foundation

You can find us in Pune, specifically at B-23 in the Sairaj Society. We are located near the toll naka, which means it’s always a bit busy with cars and trucks passing by nearby. Our space is just a regular apartment in a residential society. It’s nothing like those corporate offices you see in the IT parks. We are just a bunch of people who wanted to do some social work without all the red tape. We spend a lot of our time just chatting with the residents and seeing what’s needed in the Pune City area. We don't have a formal dress code or anything like that. Most of the time, we are just in our regular clothes, sitting around a plastic table. We like it that way because it makes people feel more comfortable coming to talk to us. We’ve been here for a while now and most of the neighbors know who we are. We don’t do any big advertising. If someone needs help, they usually just hear about us from a friend or see our name on the gate. It’s a very straightforward way of doing things. We just want to be useful to the folks around us in the society and the wider neighborhood. We take things one day at a time and do our best.