ARZOO ARTS COLLECTIVE
An Offering Of Colours
OUR MISSION
We are Arzoo Arts Collective, a small motivated company based in Singapore, specialising in coasters and other products that depict Singapore and London scenes. We strive to provide accessible and one of a kind designs at affordable prices. We offer our customers good workmanship and impeccable material at their convenience.
If you are looking for affordable home decor that will not only bring more color to your home and will additionally help to improve access to education in India and Singapore, you’re in the right place. ALL PROFITS from the sale of home decor products WILL be donated equally to education charities in India (Husti Initiative, as well as others) and Beyond Social Services in Singapore.
EDUCATING FUTURE LEADERS. ONE GIFT AT A TIME.
Each of our home decor gifts purchased directly supports children's education.
Artist- Nuzhat Kazi devotes hours to create each unique design depicting Singapore, London scenes etc
Supplier in India fashions Nuzhat’s unique designs into
home decor products.
Home Decor products are put on the market (AAC website etc)
and other lifestyle exhibitions.
100% of profits from the sale of home decor products are donated to education-centric charities in Singapore (50%) and India (50%)-Husti and other educational charities.
Education prospects for future leaders are increased
Each home-decor gift will go a long way in not only supporting children’s education in India and Singapore but will also provide artist Nuzhat an avenue to use her artwork and passion towards something bigger. Through the continued support and purchase of home-decor gifts by the community in Singapore and our corporate patrons, children in India and Singapore will be able to continue their education with the right resources and get the environment they need to thrive.
THE TEAM
ARMAAN KAZI
Cofounder
Sales and Marketing Executive.
Graduate from SAS and completed National Service in Singapore in October 2021. He is a Digital Marketing Graduate from James Cook University in Singapore. He has participated in road shows and exhibitions. He has helped with sales and marketing.
ROOHI KAZI
Cofounder
Sales and Marketing Manager & Website Developer
Roohi is a Bachelors of Business Administration Graduate from American University, Washington D.C. She helped with graphics, website development and marketing. She hosts a podcast 'Business Podcast By Roohi' where she interviews industry stalwarts in the podcasting and marketing space. You can listen to her podcasts on Apple, Spotify and many more.
NUZHAT KAZI
Founder, Artist, and Creative Director
An Architect and Urban Designer by training but is presently a practicing artist. She sketches, paints, sings Hindustani Music and writes poetry. Working mainly in acrylics and oils. She does realistic as well as abstract paintings and has participated in 4 exhibitions in Singapore. Her paintings are in private collections in India and Singapore.
AARON KAZI
Cofounder
Sales Manager, Web and App Developer
Singapore American School graduate 2021. Presently serving National Service in the Singapore Police Force. He helped in bazaars and exhibitions that Arzoo Arts Collective participated in. He designed the Mobile App for Arzoo Arts Collective. He is a sophomore at North Western University in Chicago.
A SNAPSHOT
1.Husti Initiative: Running of Umeed Education and Support Centre
Arzoo Arts Collective has run a fundraiser for Husti in 2017 we collected 2000 pounds for them. We wanted to continue our existing support of Husti and the highly commendable work they do for the underprivileged children in Gujarat. So out of our profits, 50% amount we will donate to support education-centric charities in India. This would be given to Husti to support the running of the Umeed Education and Support Centre at Someshwar House in Dabhoi. It is a new project that they have launched in December 2018 in partnership with Action Aid, India.
The Umeed Education and Support Centre will help provide education to excluded communities who have thus far not been able to receive an education. Action Aid’s main role in the Umeed Education and Support Centre is to provide training for the children to learn to read and write. Currently, the majority of the students who come to the Centre have dropped out of school. In order to ensure that the students have the knowledge and skills necessary to go back to school, Action Aid provides training. They have computer classes, hygiene classes and information sessions about menstrual periods that cater to teenage girls. In order to impart the information, they use tools like videos and games.
Action Aid, India website:https://www.actionaidindia.org/
A SNAPSHOT
CHARITIES WE SUPPORT
1.Husti Initiative: Running of Umeed Education and Support Centre
Arzoo Arts Collective had run a fundraiser for Husti in 2017 and collected 2000 pounds for them. We wanted to continue our existing support of Husti and the highly commendable work they do for the underprivileged children in Gujarat. We have allocated 50% from our net profits after costs to support education-centric charities in India. This would be given to Husti to support the running of the Umeed Education and support centre at Someshwar House in Dabhoi, Gujarat.
The Umeed Education and Support Centre will help provide education to excluded communities who have thus far not been able to receive an education. In 2023 provided training for the children to learn to read and write. Additionally they provided vocational training classes like Henna and Beauty parlor for teenage and young adult girls. Currently, the majority of the students who come to the centre have dropped out of school. In order to ensure that the students have the knowledge and skills necessary to go back to school the Umeed Center teachers provide training. They have computer classes, hygiene classes and information sessions about menstrual periods that cater to teenage girls and order to impart the information, they use tools like videos and games.
PHOTOS OF UMEED EDUCATION CENTRE
2.Beyond Social Services, Singapore
Arzoo Arts Collective has chosen to support the community based charity Beyond Social Services. Beyond Social Services is established as a charity dedicated to alleviating the plight of Singapore’s lowest income communities. Beyond engages residents in low-income public rental housing neighborhoods and enables the young and old to self-organise around issues important to them. These are often challenges related to poverty such as food insecurity, poor health, debt clearance and aspirations such as housing, education, income generation and such. They adopt a future oriented perspective and emphasis on helping children and youth from less privileged backgrounds break away from the poverty cycle.
Beyond adopts a community development approach where social issues are regarded as opportunities for people from different backgrounds to cooperate toward a common good. To enable efforts of communities in low-income neighbourhoods, Beyond serves as a conduit for resources from the larger Singapore community. Some of the designated funds include Beyond Champions, Bridge the Digital Divide, Family Assistance Fund and Education Assistance Fund. Such allocations, with the Education assistance fund, in particular, align directly with the mission of Arzoo Arts Collective. Beyond’s Education Assistance Fund enables children , youth and adults to further their education and skills.
We are excited to work with Beyond, helping them through our project of Artful Gifting wherein our customers buy a gift or souvenirs from us and directly help Beyond Social Services. Since our inception as an art based business in 2018 we have donated 50% of total profits (after deducting cost) to Beyond Social Services as a lump sum amount in 2021 and in 2022.
We hope to receive continued support from our customers for our cause of ‘Artful Gifting’ that aims to help provide accessible and equal education to all children alongside our partner charity Beyond Social services. The link to their website https://www.beyond.org.sg/
PHOTOS OF BEYOND SOCIAL SERVICES
