Training 150 Community Video Producers in india

At VV, we think about hyper-local change, and also long term systemic change, when the most marginalized are enable to be part of the debate. Here's an example of the kind of local change we champion: Community Correspondent Chunnu Hansada reported a story on two teachers of a government school who have not been paid for...

Most people in India think that untouchability no longer exists - but it does, and it affects millions. Since nearly one-quarter of VV's community correspondents are Dalits, this is an issue close to our heart. The Community Correspondents (CC's) decided they wanted to gather the visual evidence to prove, once and for all,...

2010 was a great year for Video Volunteers. We launched IndiaUnheard in March, with the idea of creating a kind community news service, a kind of grassroots Reuters. In March we trained the first thirty "community correspondents", one from each state in India. These were all community activists from very poor backgrounds,...

We are thrilled to be working in Brazil, one of the most exciting countries for community media in the world. Our project is to help 10 young people set up their own video businesses. We believe that the "creative poor" can become participants in the global media, especially today when news stations are very receptive to...

This is Clare Rutz reporting from Goa, India. During my travels one of the most concerning issues concerning the INGO world is the lack of communication between a project and well, everyone else. Very rarely do charities work with one another or have the proper relationship with their funding organizations. Video...

One exciting thing that is happening now is, one of our community producers is on a train to kashmir to shoot some videos for MTV. He is traveling with one of Video Volunteers’ trainers, and they will work together to produce short videos on the voices of Kashmiri youth for a new MTV program called MTV Iggy. It has always...

Since VV's last update, we have grown our network to comprise 12 Community Video Units, and 75 Community Video Producers. We have begun looking seriously at two aspects. One is mainstream distribution, where we have begun to distribute our media on Current TV and CNN IBN, an Indian CNN company. The other is sustainability,...

This has been a great year for us. We have launched five new Community Video Units in India. So we now have a total of 11 Community Video Units, and 65 community video producers. They've made a total of 40 films in the last year, and so we're now looking at how we get these films in front of wider audiences. We've...