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CV Camp update: How do college students feel about learning with Producers?

 
/ August 31, 2009

Naomi Hatfield Allen, an intern with VV from Cambridge University, interviews three participants at VV Community Video Camp in August 2009 Melissa from Australia What is your background and why are you here? I’m doing my final year of social work and am in India to do an internship with...

CV camp update : Interview with Stalin about the creative camera workshop

 
/ August 31, 2009

Dalia, a Croatian student studying at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication in Pune, was one of the 8 volunteers who got a scholarship to attend the camp in exchange for volunteering. She blogs about her experiences and her interview with our director Stalin K. All I can say is...

Video Volunteers Celebrates Successful Community Video Camp

 
/ August 28, 2009

“You mean to say that sending the email is free?! I don’t have to pay for it?” Laxmi was amazed that there is no equivalent on the Internet to paying for a postage stamp to send a letter. The first twenty minutes of this workshop on digi-activism being held in...

Reflections of a VV Intern: ethnographic notes on the Adivasi CVU

 
/ August 28, 2009

Naomi Hatfield Allen, an intern with VV from Cambridge University, talks about her days at our CVU in Andhra Pradesh. I came to Video Volunteers this summer as an intern and am now coming to the end of my two months here. It has been an incredible experience and I...

Old Neighborhoods Threatened by New Imphal Hotel

 
/ March 2, 2012

Manipuri Govt. plans to evict 500 people to build a five-star hotel.

How Video Volunteers Improved Women’s Rights, Sanitation in India

 
/ June 7, 2009

How do you teach creativity and critical thinking to people from very disadvantaged communities, with little formal education? Doing this is a major goal of Video Volunteers’ work in training community producers. If organizations don’t develop these training tools, the world could find itself in a situation where technology allows...