The Tiny Miracles Foundation is a Dutch-based charity founded in 2010,
by Laurien Meuter. The foundation works with the women in the Pardeshi community: a group of around 700 people living on one street, next to the red light district in Mumbai, India. Their mission is to lift this small community from the cycle of poverty within the next 8 years, so that by 2020 the community will be fully self-supporting. 

 

Tiny Miracles works in four areas in the community:

• Providing women with skills on health and nutrition, HIV prevention, importance of education and saving money; 

• Training and to help provide a family income;

• Education for their children; and

• Assistance in improving community healthcare. 

 

Previously, the Pardeshis relied solely on selling cane baskets that met with low demand in the market. In 2012, Tiny Miracles set up a collaboration with Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop to build a workshop in the community and to design a range of products that could provide the women with further skills and a family income. They are paid a fair wage, and 50% of their income is set aside in a bank.

 

Find out more information from Tiny Miracles here.