About Studio Saksham

The Mahila Saksham Yojna is an initiative to empower unskilled women from villages and slums to make Handicrafts and Khadi Fabric Products. Women from Kashmir valley, Villages in Rajasthan and slums in Mumbai/Delhi have created these products. The initiative has played a key role in empowering women from rural India, who are now confident in their skills and have become financially independent. The Aim is to make women self-reliant and give them financial independence. 

 Through Studio Saksham, we combine our passion for a social mission with an image of business-like discipline, innovation, and determination. 

 Through this model, we can combine the best of the not-for-profit, philanthropic world with the best of the for-profit, enterprising world. 

The RNAF has created successful women entrepreneurs and served as a platform for aspiring women. We are focused on supporting women to become authentic and conscious leaders so they can make a big impact with their work and do so from a place of meaning, purpose, and joy. We have coaching and mentoring programmes and host events that bring women together to network and learn from one another in slums and villages across the country.

Rouble Nagi Art Foundation

Rouble Nagi Art Foundation is a Mumbai-based NGO, registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950. We are currently running five programs focusing mainly on Skill Development and Women Empowerment, Education and children’s welfare. Our programs focus on Skill Development/ Vocational courses for creating village entrepreneurs and creating employment opportunities for the less privileged. 

Our Social Reform initiative Misaal India, has been working for the last 10 years in Slums and Villages of India addressing issues for employment and creating women entrepreneurs in villages. We also address Sanitation and Hygiene through community workshops at our centres.

Encouraging Entrepreneurship, Employability and Self-Reliance through the provision of Skill Training:

This vertical is aimed at making women independent. Whether it is conversations with the community to evoke behavioural change, provision of trainers and facilitators who can adequately communicate, teach and empower the women to learn to contribute to their livelihood – right down to setting up the physical infrastructure or Skill Centre where this learning process will occur. We will build the existing capacities that women have & help them play their desired roles in family and society. Employability & entrepreneurship will both get a boost through this intervention.

About Rouble Nagi

Rouble Nagi is the Founder of Rouble Nagi Art Foundation & Rouble Nagi Design Studio. She is an Award winning, internationally acclaimed Indian artist with over 800 murals and sculptures to her credit. With over 150 exhibitions worldwide, a member of the India Design Council (IDC) and is one of the pioneers to start the beautification of Mumbai with ‘Art Installations’ around the city. Her Initiative “Misaal Mumbai” was the first Slum transformation initiative in the country, where she painted more than 1,50,000 houses and conducted workshops on hygiene and sanitation.

Rouble Nagi Art Foundation (RNAF)is a not-for-profit organisation set-up with the vision to ensure that all children get an education that helps them become caring, responsible and productive citizens. As a concrete step towards realising this vision, RNAF developed a systematic programme called “Misaal India” to transform the lives of people who reside in Slums and Villages in India. In 2019 RNAF signed an MOU with the Government of Maharashtra under the Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Devendra Fadnavis initiative “Mahaparivartan”.

Today Misaal India has positively impacted over a million lives and is working in 71 slums and villages all over the country. Rouble Nagi was the first artist to be invited to exhibit at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum New Delhi on 2nd October, 2017 and her work was selected by the honourable President of India to be put up at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum collection.