Tiny Miracles (B Corp)

65,000 runners turned the streets into a racing track for @tatamummarathon , but nobody came close to Jamuna, Chandana and Rupi. Not because they have the best kicks there, neither because they were the fastest runners. Why? Swipe through to figure it out. 📸 by @rogerneve Huge thanks to: @dineshsonak , @rogerneve @edsonbarbapapa , @faridbawa , @babatoure , @ccfashion.official , @globalsportscommunication , @pattarunningteam for making this marathon count.

She wants one thing from this. So do we. To employ these people. To make sure the world that looks away at traffic signals has to look. One person showed up. We think more will follow. We’re going to build collections together. Designed by Isabel. Made by Pardhi women. The first products are coming. Photos by @sharannyaparkour & @rogerneve

The Tiny Un-Factory is one of Mumbai’s most significant examples of community-led, human centred architecture and social design. Once the old Apsara Cinema in Grant Road, it has been transformed by @tinymiracles_official and @thebusride into a workspace grounded in dignity, agency and wellbeing rather than production lines. Tiny Miracles, a social enterprise and certified B Corp, works with multiple underserved communities across Mumbai through employment, education, healthcare and emotional support. The Un-Factory translates this impact-driven mission into built form, showing how design can become a tool for long-term empowerment. The interior design embraces adaptive reuse, sustainable materials and participatory decision-making. Cane craftsmanship defines the spatial language, bringing warm, fluid, tactile curves to shelving, furniture, lighting and partitions. At the centre stands a sculptural Tree of Life whose branching lights and rooted floor pattern tie the entire space together. Instead of a conventional factory layout, the architecture creates micro workshops and community spaces including a medical room, counselling area, dining space, library, computer room and children’s learning zones. The Shanti Dome, wrapped in recycled textiles donated by the women, offers a quiet room for reflection and emotional wellbeing. The Tiny Un-Factory sets a powerful precedent for how architecture, interior design and community development can work together to reshape the future of work. . [human centred design, community-led architecture, adaptive reuse project, workplace architecture, sustainable materials, participatory design, architectural transformation, interior spatial design, cane craftsmanship, social impact design, future of workspaces, Mumbai design scene, craft and architecture, design for wellbeing] . #communityleddesign, #socialdesign, #adaptiveReuse, #sustainablearchitecture, #mumbaiarchitecture, #architectureindia, #interiordesignindia, #workspacedesign, #adaptiveReuseArchitecture, #communityarchitecture, #designforgood, #craftbaseddesign, #thebusride

Throwback to a special tasting session from the Tiny Food Project: Alibag with @TinyMiracles_official ! This gathering brought together women from the Ranjankhar, Hashiware, and Narangi communities to try responsibly made products from a few of our #TLpartner producers. As they tasted, discussed, and held each product in their hands, we collectively unpacked what goes into building a food product: from ingredients and flavour profiles to packaging, pricing, and visual appeal. The idea was not just to introduce them to these products, but to give them the vocabulary and confidence to imagine their own recipes taking shape in similar ways. Together, we tried products from @AamrabyNSK , @ForestPost.in , @Maati_cha , and @TheManduvaProject , and could sense a palpable curiosity within the group as they tasted unfamiliar flavours and ingredients. We also prompted the women with questions like, “Would you buy this in a shop? And if not, why?” One fascinating observation was noticing where packaging featured regional languages, and where it leaned towards English instead. The women spoke about how taste profiles differed across regions too. For example, mustard oil in pickles from @AamrabyNSK was unfamiliar to many of them, while the shatavari murabba from @ForestPost.in was particularly loved. By the end of the session, we could sense a visible shift in confidence. What began as hesitant comments like “this is good” slowly evolved into more detailed feedback like “I would add images to the packaging to make the product more appealing”. More than anything, the session helped build confidence in the women’s own instincts and abilities, encouraging them to become more observant, articulate, and assured while recipe testing and imagining products of their own. Stay tuned to discover the delicious products the Alibag women are developing, and how you can get your hands on them! Photos by @NabilahNoorani_

PRODUCT DESIGN_ We designed a tote for the guests of @thesocialhub The bold-colored straps carry a meaningful message and add a vibrant pop of color to the guestroom. Developed with @tinymiracles_official a social enterprise empowering women through purposeful employment and long-term opportunities. — #theinvisibleparty #designstudio

Funny thing about going viral. We’ve spent years documenting our work with the Pardhi community: their resilience, their work, their fight to exist. All we got was cricket sounds. Then Isabel Marant visited and... 400,000 views. Just to clarify, the women you’re suddenly interested in haven’t changed. You have. Welcome. Stay a while. There’s a lot you’ve missed. Photo : @rogerneve

We’d like to see you try 🤭 [social impact, ethical labour, good business, radical transparency, women led business, labour rights, Mumbai, b corp]

We went all the way to Mumbai to see where The Social Hub tote bag comes from. What we found was something much bigger than a tote bag! Tiny Miracles is a social enterprise based in Mumbai, India 🇮🇳 on a mission to break cycles of poverty for women from vulnerable communities. Available to buy across all of our hubs.

Every tote bag you spot at The Social Hub has travelled a lot further than you think. Not just from Mumbai, India, but from a system that’s quietly rewriting how poverty gets solved. Breaking poverty cycles for 400 women along the way. Thanks to @tinymiracles for making sure these bags mean income, access, and long-term change. Turns out, closing the wealth gap can look a lot like a really good tote.

Looking back at one of our early visits to Alibag for the Tiny Food Project with @TinyMiracles_official ! Over the past few months, women from the Narangi, Hashiware, and Ranjankhar communities have been coming together to explore how their everyday food knowledge could grow into meaningful livelihoods. The Tiny Food Project—an initiative by Tiny Miracles and The Locavore—is rooted in supporting women to build food-based enterprises grounded in their own culinary traditions and collective strength. One of our early visits was dedicated simply to listening. We spent time getting to know each other, sharing favourite foods and dishes, and hearing about the women’s interests, skills, and aspirations. They shared stories of home kitchens, family recipes, and the foods that shape everyday life in these communities. We also shared examples of our #TLpartner producers across India—many of them women—who have built local food enterprises offering delicious products, hoping to spark ideas for what might be possible here too. Since this is a deeply on-ground project, the work is unfolding slowly, through visits, conversations, tastings, trainings, and time spent together. That also means you may not always see the full picture of what’s happening in Alibag from here! But we hope to bring you small glimpses from the field like these that remind us how food, when prepared and shared collectively, can open doors to confidence, creativity, and new beginnings. Photos by Riya Sanyal for @TinyMiracles_official

As a social enterprise that cares about people and eliminating poverty, spending almost ₹6,00,000 on better UX feels obnoxious. Or maybe we just think too much. Either way, it’s done. It’s part of the process. And we’re definitely not the only ones who’ve been here. The inconvenient truth is that doing good doesn’t mean doing it badly. Sometimes impact needs a better interface. Swipe to see what we actually spent it on and you tell us if it was worth it. [social impact, supply chain innovation, anti poverty, google, outlook, we are a family here]

We work with some very forward thinking, no bullsh*t taken women. Like Jayshree, the first employee of Tiny Miracles, shining in all her glory! Swipe through to hear her story. (P.S totally forgot to mention, she also adopted the cutest cat ever in her apartment now) [social impact, poverty alleviation, supply chain innovation, good business, ethical labour, equality, close the gap, Mumbai, B corp]