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

VV-PACS Community Correspondent Arti bai reports from Bhatiyagarh village, Madhya Pradesh on the severe conditions of roads in the village. The roads are in such bad state that a simple activity like fetching water becomes a painstaking task.

People of Bhatiyagarh village have asked the Village council head many times to solve this problem but no action has been taken yet.
Call to action: Please call Block officer Mr. K. Chaube on 9300298951, and ask him to take immediate action.

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.