sentences:  She was then involved with a community centre called the Nagpada Neighbourhood House.With Prema Gopalan, Patel is the founding director of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), which she set up in Mumbai in 1984 as an advocacy group for the pavement dwellers of Mumbai.SPARC continues to this day to play a major role in the politics of slum development in India and throughout the Third World.