June 2014
Absentee Doctors
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
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!
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...
Requesting Deaf Ears
The Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) Scheme is a 1985 Indian government initiated social welfare programme created to provide housing for the rural underprivileged in India. Mo Kudia (My Hut) is a scheme that was launched in 2008in Odisha to provide houses to those families who were deprived the benefits of...
Article 17 Right To Education
The Indian Constitution has given equal rights to all its citizens, so that all types of discrimination such as gender, caste and religion are removed. According to the provisions of the Right to Education (RTE) 2010 all children have rights for equal treatment. However despite this, Primary school children at...
RTE: PASS YA FAIL?
What is it like for children in India to access education? 206 Trained community journalists, using digital video cameras, will capture the reality of the implementation of the Right to Education Act. Are schools easy to get to? Is the student-teacher ratio correct? Are there toilets and drinking water in...
Pottery a dying art
Our VV Correspondent Shambulal Khattik reports from Delwara,Nathdwara district, Rajasthan where despite the pottery community making pottery for past few centuries it’s an art that is dying. The unique skills and abilities are being lost to the young generation who are being attracted to higher paid professions. Call to...
INSIGHT into Community Radio in Odisha
VV Correspondent Abhishek Dash reports from Dalipathna, Nuapada district, Odisha explaining how radio is one of the best mediums for villagers to gain insight into what government schemes are available and what their entitlements are. Purna Chandra Banchoor a resident informs Abhishek, “There is an organisation called ‘Chalo Chalo’...