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World Food Day – October 16, 2011
Video Volunteers and the Red Cross Help Communities across India Testify to Vast Problem of Hunger NEW YORK – October 14, 2011 – On the eve of World Food Day – October 16 – Video Volunteers is releasing 12 documentary videos created by people living in slums and villages across India whose...
Using Media To Resolve Conflict Within The Community
This is the second of a 3-blog series by Jessica Mayberry, the founding director of VV on the of Community Video Unit (CVU) – the organization’s pioneering community media model, in addressing sensitive issues such as caste, sex and gender, and find innovative ways to deal with them. To read...
IndiaUnheard – Pushing Marginalized Voices to the Mainstream Media
I was recently asked why we set up the Video Volunteers’ IndiaUnheard program. It is a straightforward question with a multitude of replies. Let me briefly outline the IndiaUnheard program before I articulate our motives. IndiaUnheard is the first ever community news service launched by Video Volunteers. This new initiative...
‘Development’ is Political
– Stalin K This is the first in a series of blog posts that will be written by the Video Volunteers director, Stalin K. These weekly posts will cover themes from activism to community media, sustainability to identity. This week he discusses the danger of political apathy in the NGO...
Apna Malak Ma Community Video Unit Field Visit: Aaditeshwar Seth’s field notes
Recently, our friend Aaditeshwar Seth of Gram Vaani Community Radio (and a fellow Knight News Challenge winner) spent a few days visiting Apna Malak Ma, the all-Dalit CVU in rural Surendranagar district of Gujarat set up by Navsarjan along with VV. We thought his field notes captured well...
Bright "Ranis" and Kings of VV
– Taijrani “TJ” Rampersaud Being in VV and working here often reminds me of Guyana, my home. With citizens from or with roots in many places, such as Africa, China, Europe and India, Guyana is a country of great diversity. Growing up in such a diverse society had its dividends....
Exercises in community video entrepreneurship
– Jessica Mayberry My partner Stalin and I are seated in the video laboratory of VCU.br in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with VV’s nine Video Fellows. We’re conducting a workshop in an area that is new for us – and which appears to be new also for the whole field of...