Community Correspondents

Video Volunteers

Video Volunteers (VV) runs India's only reporting network that's focused exclusively on providing broad coverage from the poorest, most media-dark districts in India. We currently have 206 individuals trained across India's most diverse and marginalised communities, who all earn a living as a VV Community Correspondent (CC). Our goal is to grow our network to ensure India's poorest and most conflict-ridden districts have a video producer and news outlet.

Videos from Video

Mentally Challenged Dalit Woman Allegedly Raped in Puri, Odisha

 
/ November 12, 2021

She went in the open to defecate when the accused started following her and took her into the jungle.

Jaan Jao, Jaan Bachao: Video Volunteers Runs Awareness Campaign in West Bengal Tea Gardens

 
/ July 30, 2021

A massive awareness campaign against COVID-19 that aims to spread awareness about vaccines, masking up, social distancing and hand washing etc.

“We get Rs. 32 per day for working as ASHA”

 
/ July 29, 2021

India's frontline health workers ASHAs have some of the lowest working conditions in the health world.

Pollution, Large Scale Mining Bringing Death To A Major River In North India

 
/ January 20, 2021

Ken river in Bundelkhand is one of the several rivers in India dying a slow death.

Fixing India | How Do Community Media Change Agents Work? | Video Volunteers

 
/ December 2, 2020

Video Volunteers has been working for more than a decade towards giving the disadvantaged a voice. What are the processes we follow to create change?

Community Survey

New Farm Law: The People Whose Voice Matters The Most Tell Us What It Means

 
/ October 28, 2020

We get a sense about the new farm bills passed by the Union govt of India from Video Volunteers correspondents, several of whom are farmers or who work with the community.

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Government Officials! Check WhatsApp, Your People Have Problems to Share

 
/ October 26, 2020

How are community media networks like Video Volunteers functioning when social distancing is the norm and venturing into communities is restricted?

Impact Story

Fixing India: Standing Up for People Affected by the Sardar Sarovar Dam

 
/ October 8, 2020

Chetan Salve, a community correspondent with Video Volunteers, led the decades-long efforts towards relief to those displaced by Narmada valley projects.