Background 

 

Slums are densely populated, neglected parts of cities where housing and living conditions are exceptionally poor. Misaal Initiative is a slum transformation programme, at its basic level, involves improving the physical environment of the existing area, addressing issues like education for children, women empowerment, employment for youth, hygiene and sanitation.

 

Objectives 

 

To explore the effects of slum upgrading strategies involving physical environment and infrastructure interventions like painting and cleaning with the involvement of the local residents and communities. This will have a positive effect on health, quality of life and socio-economic wellbeing of urban slum dwellers in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). 

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Rouble Nagi Art Foundation's mission incorporated all possible areas of growth and development that we can undertake for uplifting the deprived section of the society. 

 

 

About Misaal Mumbai

 

What: “Misaal Mumbai” is an initiative by Social Activist and Artist Rouble Nagi.
When: It started with Paint Dharavi in 2016, with the dream to impact & transform lives through Art. 
Where: Our presence is over 176 localities pan India (Slums and villages) 

 

The main goal of this project is to make the slum areas cleaner and more hygienic than before, using Community Art as the primary medium and entryway into sanitation, cleanliness drives, awareness of basic illnesses, health camps, skill development and education. It aims at instilling values such as gender equality, social justice, the spirit of community service, eco-friendliness in the slums and villages and their people so that they get transformed & grow into role-models for others. We are proud to support the Government’s initiative of Swaccha Bharat Abhiyaan and even take it forward in our trademark style, of painting and aestheticizing living spaces. Art, we realized is the fulcrum point of all other efforts in our community development work, since it offers a dignified living atmosphere for people who often have much lesser than they deserve. 

We focus on holistic development, RNAF transforms the youth by inculcating skills, developing personalities and creating employment opportunities for them. 

 

Outcome:

 

After the project completion, data is collected on the perspectives of slum dwellers regarding their needs, preferences for and satisfaction with interventions received. Till date we have painted more than 150,000 houses . Building self-reliant networks is another objective of Rouble Nagi Art Foundation. The self-reliant strategy relies on the willingness and ability of people of a community to rely on their own resources. It requires the optional use of all available human, natural and technological resources