Affordable Art with a Heart started with a humble 3-day art exhibition in Hyderabad. Meera visualized this as more than just an art exhibition. She intended to create a platform to promote differently abled children and upcoming struggling artists while making charity available to all with a heart for uplifting the less fortunate.
The exhibition featured a vast collection of paintings of different artists and styles, the proceeds of which were donated to the various social well-being initiatives. In addition, students of Ashray Akruti, a school for hearing impaired children will have their paintings showcased.
After the overwhelming response of“Affordable Art with a Heart” in 2017, the Season 2 (11th, 12 & 13th August 2018) is strengthened the cause with a creative vision. The key charities being - Isha Vidhya, Lepcha Kottage Orphanage (Sikkim), Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust (KGNMT) and Ashray Akruti.
Meera takes the initiative to the next level by enabling artists, donors, and buyers to engage online across the country, through the launch of the online e-commerce website - www.artwithaheart.in
Through the portal, all artists or donors can upload and put up their paintings for sale and art lovers with a heart for charity can purchase them across the year to support the cause. Avaan Excess is the chosen logistics partner and with its complete packaging and transport solutions, will make sure donor or artists paintings are picked up and sent on time and intact across 21750 pin codes in India.
"Meera is the Founder & CEO of Avaan India, a dynamic new age company which has diversified in training the youth of rural India & creating employment, providing staffing solutions to the skilled workforce and e-Learning.
Her latest venture, ‘Avaan Excess’ (www.avaanexcess.com) which is a start-up providing excess baggage solutions recently received the Economic Times Business Innovation Leaders Award.
An artist and connoisseur of art, she pioneered the concept of Affordable Art through her Foundation “Affordable Art with a Heart” (www.artwithaheart.in) which is a 100% not for profit charity.
The Foundation serves as a platform to promote differently abled children and budding artists. Season 1 & 2 of the art exhibition organised by the Foundation received phenomenal response from the art lovers in Hyderabad. The third season of the art exhibition will be held in August 2022.
Meera is also an author of two coffee table books on Sikkim - ‘Mystic Shangrila’ and ‘An Ode to Sikkim’. Both these books are an ode to her childhood and youth spent in Sikkim.
A Graduate from Pusa Institute (IIHM), Delhi and a Post Graduate from the Oberoi School of Learning & Development, Delhi, Meera has a strong foundation in the service & logistics industry.