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Communications Manager, Goa
Communications Manager, Goa The Communications Manager is responsible for ensuring that our key videos, impacts, latest news and events are being spread far and wide, and that VV is getting maximum exposure and its brand and messaging being communicated. External and Online Communications Create the social media plan Tweet, blog...
What makes a great Community Correspondent? Our criteria for selecting CC’s
By Radhika Gupta and Siddharth Pillai This is what we look for when recruiting Community Correspondents. You can read HERE about how we actually locate and select them. The candidate should be associated with social movements, human rights campaigns and/or NGOs. Candidates with a history of social movements not only have...
Mining Vs. The Hills of Odisha
In the late 1980s the Gandhamardan hills in Odisha’s Bargarh district were home to a powerful people’s movement. Not unlike today’s Niyamgiri movement, that too was a cry of the people of the land to save their forest, their Gandhamardan Hill from Bauxite mining. The movement was successful in bringing...
Article 17: Discriminating among children
Untouchability has been practiced in India for many centuries. Even though it is a punishable offense under Article 17 of the Constitution of India it continues. One of the ways, it is practiced is during school meal times, where Dalit (scheduled caste) children are made to sit separate from the...
A nurturing environment
“Because there is no boundary wall, goats & cows eat our flowers and plants”. – Lija Rani, Class 4 The headmaster Parsuram Mishra and students of the Amaghat primary school, Tileibani block in Deogarh want to make the school environment beautiful but are unable to do so. Every year the...
Slum demolitions in Mulund cause uproar
The morning of 20th May 2014 came as a blow to the 600 residents of Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Nagar slums. As the rest Mumbai came to life that day; as lunches got packed, vendors got ready to sell their morning chai and children grudgingly put on their school uniforms, bulldozers and...
No land ownership for dalits
VV-PACS Correspondent Asha Kumari reports from Sagarpur Village, Makhdumpur Block, Jehanabad district, Bihar, “I want these Dalit families to get ownership of the land they reside on, and to get the benefits of various schemes run by the government.” Call to Action: Please put pressure on the Block District...
Sketchy Houses
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. People like Dhaneswari are promised a house under this scheme, however due to corrupt staff members like Mitru her house is left half finished with...