Arti Bai Valmiki

Arti is our CC from Damoh in Madhya Pradesh. Poor socio-economic conditions forced her to work as a manual scavenger at a very young age. Her years of experience have given her a strong understanding of social exclusion issues. She feels strongly about discrimination faced by women in her community and wants to start her journey as a video campaigner with this particular issue. She is a part of the VV-PACS Community Correspondent Network

While India ranks sixth in the world in terms of overall electricity production and consumption, many regions in rural India still remain in darkness.

Our community correspondent Arti Bai Valmiki reports from Bathiyagarh block of Madhya Pradesh that hasn’t received electricity since the past 25 years.

The residents of ward no.s 9,10 & 11 have been living in darkness and fear. Some villagers have been bitten by snakes and scorpions at night as they were unable to spot them with no light. For these people light is not just a commodity; it is a reminder of life’s harsh realities. The very least we can do is wake up to the fact that everyone deserves a light.

To help them you can call:
Mr. Sahai
Chief electrical Engineer,
Electricity department
Bathiyagarh, Damoh
09424613810

About the Partnership: The Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) Programme and Video Volunteers have come together to create the Community Correspondents Network. The videos generated by the network will be able to highlight voices from the margins, providing skills to social communicators to provide advocacy tools to community based organisations.