IMPACT
Impact videos are inspirational stories of bottom-up change that document how community media has led to concrete change. VV teaches Correspondents not just to report, but also to initiate local campaigns, and approximately 1 in 5 videos manages to solve the underlying issue. How? By providing information, rallying people to believe collective action works, networking with other activists, fostering community-level discussion through screenings and discussion clubs, and acting as a bridge to the local administration, which is often unaware of people’s problems. When necessary, Video Volunteers will start petitions, lobby the state or national administration, or engage the media in order to bring about the change.
Highlights from the Video Volunteers Annual Report 2021-2022
In the year 2021-2022, Video Volunteers reached a huge number of people. Each video, on average, documented a problem, a ground reality that affected nearly 35,000 people. And we reported more than 1500 stories last year. Impacts achieved by our community correspondent have benefited 3.2 million people, in total.
Video Volunteers Fixing the Gap between Community and Government
Our community correspondents operate as citizen journalists in their own community and bring the issues to the larger world through video reports. As a part of this process of transformation, we include government officials to play an important part.
Villagers in Bankura Came Together To Fix Water Crisis
This is a story of collective will and finding solutions for immediate problems. In this Pindarbari village, Bankura District, West Bengal, all the hand pumps were defunct and the main Submersible Pump was also not working, for three years. The villagers had a hard time collecting water from nearby villages,...
‘My parents gave me life but VV gave me hope & a way ahead in...
Meet Shambhulal Khatik, Video Volunteers Community Correspondent from Rajsamand district in Rajasthan.
IMPACT | VV Correspondent Helps Elderly Couple Live Life of Dignity
The elderly couple from Rajasthan had medical issues and could not look out for themselves.
Community Journalist makes administration accountable and succeeds in delivering homes to Dalits
Citizen journalist helps poor Dalit families get new permanent homes where they can spend their lives happily ever after.
Woman Changemaker lits up dark lives in rural Odisha
The story effectively depicts as to how change is triggered with mere presence of a Citizen journalist in the most media dark region of India.