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IU Impact: Clogged Drains, Caste Discrimination – dismissed by Camera & Community.
A survey conducted in India indicates that over 200,000 people died of malaria in 2012. In this interview VV-PACS Community Correspondent Satyendra speaks from Mau, Uttar Pradesh, describing how clogged drains were causing sickness & ill health in his village. With this video, Satyendra & his community successfully challenged caste constraints...
Video Volunteers and Bloomberg collaborate on rural reporting
Video Volunteers is pleased to share the first products from the VV-Bloomberg mentoring collaboration.In March 2014, VV and Bloomberg joined forces on a project in which five Bloomberg reporters coached twelve of VV’s Community Correspondents to help them produce videos on a variety of social issues. Bloomberg coaches are sharing...
Illegal detention of Hrudananda Tandi, a dalit
Imagine being sent to jail because someone wanted a piece of your land; imagine being embroiled in a long legal battle to keep what is yours to begin with. Community Correspondent Abhishek Kumar Dash shares the harrowing story of Hurdanand Tandi from tukula village in nuapada,Odisha. A Dalit, Hrudanand and...
SUCCESS: Clearing clogged drains, overcoming casteism
A survey conducted in India indicates that over 200,000 people died of malaria in 2012. In this interview VV-PACS Community Correspondent Satyendra speaks from Mau, Uttar Pradesh, describing how clogged drains were causing sickness and ill health in his village. With this video, Satyendra & his community successfully challenged caste...
Impact: Procuring the Right to Food
Community Correspondent Arti Bai Valmiki’s report got the administration to improve the quality of Midday Meals for 237 students in the primary school of Batiagarh District of Madhya Pradesh. “We don’t get rotis to eat at home, so we come to school in hope of food,” a student of the...
End Untouchability Now!
India’s Dalits are catching their abusers red-handed, on film. Help spread the word. We are committed to documenting on video caste–based segregation and illegal exclusion of Indian children. We use these video evidences and testimonies to promote basic human rights for all Indian children – something currently denied on a...
Help End Untouchability
India’s Dalit are catching their abusers red-handed, on film. Help spread the word. We are committed to documenting on video caste–based segregation and illegal exclusion of Indian children.
Houses of Dalit families burnt by upper caste men
12 powerful men from the ‘upper caste’ burnt down the houses of 4 Dalit families, our Community Correspondent Reena Devi reports from Maha Dalit Tola area of Chitauria Village in Katihar, Bihar. The conflict arose because the attackers had been trying to forcefully evict the residents. A meeting date...