Archive

Video Volunteers Makes an Impact in India with Incentives for Media Makers

 
/ March 12, 2012

As part of a 4-part series, Video Volunteers is sharing what we’ve done over the last year, our experiences, and what we’ve learned. Part 1, which you can read here, was a basic introduction to IndiaUnheard, our flagship rural feature service. Part 2 outlines new ideas we implemented into our...

How Video Volunteers Created a Network of Community Correspondents in India

 
/ March 12, 2012

The state of technology today means that nearly every village in the developing world could have someone — a local changemaker — who broadcasts his or her issues to the world. It’s commonplace today to hear people say the world is flooded with content and that “everyone” can now be...

Varsha Jawalgekar: I Am Alive

 
/ January 11, 2012

Varsha has been working as a Community Correspondent for one and a half year. She talks about the changes her work has brought to her life and to her community. “When I am speaking for the dalit, I am a dalit activist. When I am speaking for sexual minorities and...

Community Screening in a Tribal Village in Goa

 
/ November 1, 2011

Tracy Wares is an America India Foundation Clinton Fellow currently volunteering at Video Volunteers. She first lived in India from 1999-2000 while participating in a year abroad at UC Berkeley. She filmed a documentary there entitled, “Shakti: The Performance of Gender Roles at Kamakhya, Assam”. Her first experience working with...

Communications for Change: VV at WSSCC Global Forum on Sanitation & Hygiene

 
/ October 25, 2011

Naomi Hatfield Allen, Outreach Manager at Video Volunteers recently had the opportunity to participate in WSSCC Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene.  The first ever Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene . WSSCC brought together almost 500 sanitation and hygiene professionals and WSSCC members, as well as communicators, educators, health professionals,...

Dalit Women Get Water

 
/ October 23, 2011

  In Choki village, Gujarat, Dalit women have mobilized for water with the support of a Community Video Unit.