| Sage Foundation imparts skills training to the families of children who cannot afford to pay their fees. The revenues created by the sale of world class quality products, so created, in higher end markets in India and abroad is ploughed back into the system for educating these children.
 Meenakshi Advani, our strategic partner in fashion design, is an entrepreneur and creative artist. Her ideas and creations are completely original, well researched, and methodically put together towards a product that has sold to global markets from America to Australia to Canada and even Europe. She has manufactured and designed for all the major department stores in America and over 200+ boutiques. (Nordstrom, Saks, Barney’s, Neiman Marcus etc). Meenakshi designs Women’s contemporary apparel, men’s chic and relaxed clothing, accessories like hand bags and belts, and works with some leading interior designers in America in cushions, and bedding in all areas of home. Her greatest asset is to fuse elements of the east with the west with cutting edge designs. Her Dancing Peacock Brand is now in India. Meenakshi’s greatest joy has been in working with the artisans of India and the underprivileged. See more..
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Helen Walia: SAGE Foundation has recently partnered with Helen Wallia who runs a design unit called ‘Imagination’ in Bhopal. The concept behind her workshops is socio economic development of the Gas Tragedy victims and the unemployed in Bhopal.
Helen Walia has been in the export business for 35 years and entered the high fashion business 20 years ago primarily to give employment to women workers, adjusting timing to suit their work at home. She has spent extensive periods in the UK and USA in practical training of color co-ordinating and designing to suit the western market. Mrs. Wallia is a fashion advisor to many fashion design boutiques in India and abroad. Apart from fabric design she makes fashion accessories like designer purses, gloves, scarves, diaries, pens etc which have been sold to international clients like Marks and Spencers, Harrods, Liberty Chiching, California and the General Trading Company. See more
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 Vimla Patil well known writer, media person, social worker, designer of fashion shows and beauty contests,
connoisseur of fine and performing arts and a distinguished member of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and
Goa. Vimla finds a place among the 20 most well known women in India .
Vimla undertakes writing, events, TV script writing, interviews, internet work, food festivals, speech, script and
feature writing. She is an enthusiastic wild life activist and is a member of Tiger Watch, an NGO which fights to save tigers. She is actively engaged in the upliftment of women and holds workshops and seminars to Enhance their lives. Vimla offers her guidance and help to various NGO’s and foundations.
Being a multifaceted personality, Vimla will be a key driver for SAGE Foundation on many fronts.
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 Bela Shanghvi runs the studio Aavartan and is an honorary member of the World Craft Council.
“Pursuing a pure passion for crafts and textiles have led to connecting with craftsmen from all over the country and beyond - it is through this bond that the quality of crafts and textiles has been preserved and evolved while yet respecting all its traditions.” A relationship built on mutual trust, respect and the knowledge of their needs.
The human side is of extreme importance to Bela. She wants to work with evolution of the traditions and heritage which has taken centuries to built, with a lot of responsibility. Even in the surroundings of the craftsmen, she does not want too much to change and make them irrelevant or estranged. Hence the label revivalist precedes her work.
She loves to work with the focus on environment friendliness and ecological balance whenever possible. Especially Birth - to- Grave approach.
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 Ravi Shankar an enthusiastic young man working in the finance department of Morgan Stanley has volunteered to chip in with his business skills to give SAGE a professional edge. Ravi would like to give back to society at this young age, and has promised to rope in more youngsters with different skills sets to help SAGE wherever they are needed.
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 Reena Sheth is our strategic partner for jewellery design.
She specializes in designing semi precious ethnic& fusion jewellery.
The sales proceeds of the jewelry will go towards the education of the village and slum children. This exquisite jewelry can be purchased online. A growing number of happy clients are buying SAGE jewelry, secure in the knowledge that not only are they buying a quality product but are also helping to educate a child.
She uses the best quality raw material which is usually semi precious stones such as topaz (blue, golden), ruby, turquoise, opal, onyx, jade, coral, rose quartz etc., which are sourced from Jaipur (city of colour stones). All her sets are cast in sterling silver with some amount of gold used to avoid tarnishing. The diamonds used are either American (best quality) or Jaipur uncut & semi cut variety. See more
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SAGE School of Creative Crafts
 Renu Kapoor’s dream since the last five years is to set up a School of Creative Crafts .She contends that Indian Crafts are one of India’s biggest untapped and unexploited resource!.she believes that Indian Crafts …poised to be the next new industry! The School of Creative crafts will fulfill the need of professionally trained man power .
She has conducted several trial runs and researched extensively on the subject . The dream was finally captured onto a Power point presentation and translated into a 44 page business plan. “Meeting Ms Maya Shahani was providential, it was almost like the Secret was working ” she says for Maya immediately understood my vision and I have happily handed over my concept to Sage Foundation to take it further. See more
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 Poonam V Mehta an early years educator from Hong Kong, China has devoted over forty years of her life in the field of education. Her expertise is to set up preschools, from designing of the whole school, curriculum, teacher’s training and conducting workshops for parents and teachers alike. She has authored many children’s books and designed a ‘Phonics’ programme for ESL children, which have been tried and tested by the ‘Quality Education Fund’ in Hong Kong. She is currently involved in a school project in Mumbai, India. See more
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 Pradeep Gidwani is a B.Com graduate of H.R. College of Commerce, owns & manages Gift N Decor, an event management company that specializes in designing, planning and implementing traditional Indian weddings. Through his hard work, perseverance and word-of-mouth, a very satisfied NRI customer base endorses Gift N Decor the world over. Gift N Decor provides skill training and employment to the impoverished & underprivileged. Formerly in the travel agency business, his rich experience of 13 years will ensure the total success of the upcoming SAGE Tours, Arts & Crafts.
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Sanam Thadaney has volunteered as a Graphic Designer for SAGE Foundation. Born and brought up in Pune, India, she loved art since childhood and and at quite a young age decided to be a Graphic Designer. Her life revolves arround design.
Since the time she was about to start with her degree project, she had thought of working as a volunteer for an NGO. After going through a list of NGO’s she chose The SAGE Foundation, as it had not promoted its activities inspite of doing exemplary work.
Sanam helped wholeheartedly in the slums and villages and designed a great promotional kit for SAGE. Working with SAGE Foundation has been a great enriching experience for Sanam.
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