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).
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
The following infographic depicts the Outcomes we are expecting based on the plan
and intervention trajectory:
Misaal Mumbai Slum Transformation Team Structure
Misaal Hyderabad
The Misaal Hyderabad Initiative is a complete slum/basti transformation project which functions to dignify the lives of the unfortunate who reside in those localities. We wish to launch into deeper, meaningful work with local communities, using Art as the gateway and medium of building trust. The locations we have selected for The Phoenix Group project is the slum located in Babu Jagjivan Rao Nagar
Objectives:
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Building Trust and Rapport
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Spreading Awareness of Hygiene
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Carrying out Cleanliness Drives
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Mobilising Communities to practice Segregation of Waste
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Awareness of Basic Illnesses and Diseases
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Provision of Basic Health Tests and Medical Inputs
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To Reduce Drop-Outs and Ensure Continued Enrolment
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Creation of Baalwadis for Young Disengaged Slum Children
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Motivate Women and Expose them to Entrepreneurship and Self-Reliance
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Providing Women with Skill Training for Livelihoods
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Spread Joy, Love & Dignity Through Art
Supported By : The Pheonix Foundation
Misaal Rajasthan Project - Village Transformation
Objective
The project will focus on aspects - Employability Enhancement ( Employment Generation) for women and youth. The skill development project aims to create the demand of the skill workforce in various industries. This project is primarily a “Employment Oriented Skill Development Training to Underprivileged Women and Youth of the slum/village.
Edu-hub, a community learning center, which will focus on imparting skill-based training as an alternate livelihood option to traditional agricultural practices. It will also act as a platform to highlight the importance of adequate sanitation practices to the community.
We will specifically seek the active participation of women and girls through the formation of self-help groups (SHGs) as a tool for socio-economic development. The groups will provide vocational training, encourage entrepreneurship and impart life skills, empowering them in the process.
Rouble Nagi Art Foundation Center in Jawli Village
Students enrolled: 1300
Women Skill Enrollment: 725
Misaal Center in Jawali Rajasthan
We believe that skill development is a powerful agent of social transformation. Providing vocational training, we feel, will not only bridge the gap between skilled and unskilled labourers but also help the rural women with better employment and self-employment opportunities. The RNAF Center in Jawali is going to serve women, children and youth. The objective is to provide a platform to the women and youth, supporting them in learning the desired skill sets that will make them employable and empower them to earn their living. We will also help in setting up small businesses and become local entrepreneurs.
The center will provide pre-school programs cover a variety of locations and methods of delivery. We will be offering a distance education model of early childhood certification for our instructors. This will be an important way of providing support for children from villages and their families for developing early foundational skills and to facilitate their transition into formal schools.
We also intend to provide access to information, knowledge and skill to the citizens using various components of the Digital India initiative. The objective is to create young entrepreneurs and become agents of change in rural India.