Designer Pepe Heykoop, created a products that will help hundreds in a community in Mumbai, India achieve self-sufficiency and move from poverty into the working middle class. The individuals living in this community are living on sidewalks of Mumbai's red light district. Heykoop has designed products that the people of the community can make and trains them with the additional skills required to produce the products -products that have a market. The development of the products help create steady income for individuals and their families. Heykoop has partnered with his cousin Laurien Meuter who has created this organization, The Tiny Miracles Foundation., which set out to help the those in the community of Pardesh in Mumbai.
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The product that Heykoop has created is the Leather Lamp shade and Paper Vase cover. These products are created through folding paper techniques. The Paper Vase is a decorative cover for bottles that are typically thrown away.
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