Stree Shakti Charitable Foundation

We are over in the Koregaon Park area of Pune, specifically in Building D-4 near Sangamwadi. This is a pretty well-known part of the city, but our spot is just a regular building among many others. Stree Shakti Charitable Foundation is run by a small group of people who wanted to focus on women's issues here in Maharashtra. Our office is functional, nothing more. We have some shelves with files, a few computers that aren't the newest, and a table where we all sit to talk. It’s not a corporate environment. We often have people from the neighborhood dropping in to ask questions or just to chat. Koregaon Park can be quite fancy in some spots, but our corner is more about the actual work. We don't have a big budget for decorations or polished advertisements. We just write things down, make some calls, and try to help where we can. The sentences we speak are plain and we don't use a lot of jargon. Sometimes we have meetings that go long because there is so much to discuss. We’ve been here for a bit and people know us by now. It’s a bit cramped when everyone is in at the same time, but we make it work. We just focus on the daily tasks and try to be useful to the women who come to us for help. There is always work to be done in Pune.