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Row your sick self to hospital

 
/ June 12, 2014

For past 10 years Baihna Jatan Panchayat has been without adequate health facilities.  Imagine being ill and having to muster the energy to cross the dangerous river because no roads, transport or ambulance are available to take you to the nearest hospital.  Worse still, during the night, no motorboat operates,...

10 Years No Ration

 
/ June 11, 2014

An annoyed resident Suma Devi informs us, “It has been 10 years since I got married but our ration cards have not been made yet.  Everybody excluding us got their ration cards, why are we not getting ours?”   Call to Action: This is the question asked by 25 families...

No Clean Water for 10 years

 
/ June 10, 2014

Call to Action: Residents of ManiyarChak village are in desperate need for a water hand pump.  Their hand pump stopped working over 10 years ago and the Village Head has not repaired or replaced it since.  They are having to travel up to 1 K.M. to fetch water from the...

No Bribe No Free House

 
/ June 9, 2014

Want a house that is supposed to be provided for free by the government?  Tough luck.  It’s not free. Give me a bribe.  Else live on the street or in a make shift hut.  An unsafe place that may collapse on you and kill you and your entire family.  Money...

No land ownership for dalits

 
/ June 6, 2014

VV-PACS Correspondent Asha Kumari reports from Sagarpur Village, Makhdumpur Block, Jehanabad district, Bihar, “I want these Dalit families to get ownership of the land they reside on, and to get the benefits of various schemes run by the government.”   Call to Action: Please put pressure on the Block District...

Absentee Doctors

 
/ June 5, 2014

Imagine being sick and going to the governmental hospital to find that there is no one there to treat you.  This is the case in Masalpur where our VV-Correspondent Sunita Kasera reports about her personal experience:  “When I visited this health centre at around 11 o’clock in the morning, I...

8 years without Electricity

 
/ June 5, 2014

Can you imagine not having any electricity for the past 8 years?  For 135 families this is the reality they live with day in and day out.  Electrical poles were installed in Talawali village 8 years ago but until now electrical wires have still not been installed.  Instead residents are...

Going Strong: 7 months – 7 Impacts and much more!

 
/ June 4, 2014

Video Volunteers launched its campaign ‘Pass Ya Fail?’ in November 2013. This is the first-ever video audit campaign of the Right to Education Act in India. This is an update on what our determined Community Correspondents have documented in the last seven months.   “Today, there is a new tube well...