Tag: community journalism

Bringing News From Media-Dark Districts of India

 
/ March 8, 2017

Video Volunteers is India’s only reporting network that is focused exclusively on providing broad coverage for the poorest, most media-dark districts in India.

Impact Story

Community Journalism brings Tuberculosis Clinic to a Mumbai Slum

 
/ March 8, 2017

Kavita had been suffering from tuberculosis for three years and had reached a critical stage.

IU Impact: No More Waiting for Water

 
/ March 26, 2013

The 300 residents of Jayramnagar had been facing a severe shortage of water. There was only one functional hand pump in the village and the residents wanted more. When the village council and the headman did nothing for the community, the people put their faith in Community Correspondent Vrinda Aazad...

100 families in Bilha, Madhya Pradesh face water scarcity

 
/ June 24, 2016

The handpumps of Bilha village, in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh, have hardly pumped water in the past one year. Due to the water scarcity, mothers and young girls of more than 100 families of the village walk over 2 km to fetch water from Kulga, the nearest village. The...

Lights Out! Jharkhand village has no electricity since past three years

 
/ May 3, 2016

As the sun sets on the horizon, darkness literally falls in the lives of families residing in a small hamlet of Dumburu of Bangaon block in Jharkhand. The village had a brief experience of electrified homes in early 2013. But it was pushed back into darkness again within six months...