Community · Since 2013
Mira Gems grew out of Surat’s diamond district — its people, its craft, its families. Giving back is not a department here. It is part of how the company understands itself.
Our Philosophy
“A factory can be built anywhere. A community cannot. We owe ours the same care we put into every stone.”
When third-generation diamantaires founded Mira Gems in Surat, they did so among the same families who had taught them the craft. That proximity shapes everything. Our growth is inseparable from the wellbeing of the neighbourhoods our artisans come home to each evening.
So we treat community development the way we treat manufacturing — as a discipline with standards, accountability, and patience. We commit for years, not photo opportunities, and we measure what we actually changed.
Impact, on the Record
Lives meaningfully touched
Across education, healthcare, and livelihood programs run in and around Surat since 2013.
Educational programs funded
Scholarships, school infrastructure, and vocational training for first-generation learners.
Free medical camps held
Vision, maternal, and preventive-care camps delivered in partnership with local clinics.
Villages supported
Long-term commitments to water, sanitation, and community infrastructure in Gujarat.
Where We Focus
We resist spreading thin. Each cause below is sustained year on year with dedicated funding and named local partners.
Education
Most of our scholars are first-generation learners. We fund tuition, books, and uniforms from primary school through vocational college, and we rebuild the classrooms themselves — libraries, sanitation, and power for schools that had gone without.
Programs funded to date
Schools rebuilt or equipped
Healthcare
For many families, the nearest clinic is hours away. So our care moves — mobile camps, visiting specialists, and a standing commitment to the health of our own workforce.
Women’s Empowerment
We train women in faceting, polishing, and quality grading — trades long closed to them — and pay them on the same scale as everyone on the floor. Beyond the workshop, our micro-finance circles back rural enterprises run entirely by women.
40% of new artisans trained in the last two years were women.
Environmental Sustainability
The same conviction that put our reactors on solar power drives our work beyond the gate: tree cover restored on degraded land, rainwater harvesting for surrounding farms, and watershed projects that return clean water to the villages we share an aquifer with.
Trees planted
Water bodies revived
Disaster Relief
When floods or cyclones reach Gujarat, our logistics network — built to move diamonds securely worldwide — redirects to move relief. Then we stay to rebuild.
Pre-stocked kits — clean water, dry rations, blankets, and medical supplies — dispatched through our logistics network to affected districts.
Temporary shelter, sanitation, and mobile medical support coordinated with district authorities and on-ground NGO partners.
Funding for reconstructed homes, schools, and water systems — rebuilt to withstand the next event, not merely to restore the last.
Community Development
Roads, clean drinking water, sanitation, and lit public spaces are the quiet foundations a community grows on. We co-fund them alongside village councils, who decide the priorities — because the people who live there know best what they need.
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Stories From the Community
Meena · Faceting artisan, Katargam
“I came for the training and stayed for the work. My daughter watches me leave for the bench every morning — and now she talks about being an engineer, not a bride.”
Meena joined the first cohort of the women’s faceting programme in 2019. Within two years she was grading finished goods; today she trains the cohort that follows her. Her wage has changed what her family can imagine for the next generation.
Hers is one of more than four hundred such stories — each one the actual point of the work, and the reason the numbers above matter at all.
In the Field
Photographs from our programmes across Gujarat — classrooms, camps, workshops, and the villages we work in.
Looking Ahead
Vision without a date is a wish. These are the commitments we will report against — openly, whether or not we reach them on time.
Ten thousand scholars
Extend the scholarship endowment to support 10,000 students through to vocational or higher education.
A standing health network
Move from periodic camps to two permanent primary-health centres serving the villages around our facility.
Half our giving, women-led
Commit at least half of every program budget to initiatives that are designed, run, or led by women.
Join the Work
Whether you are a partner organisation, an NGO, or a buyer who wants their sourcing to mean more, we would like to talk. Every programme here began with a single conversation.
