Tweet On the 1st of May 2013, IndiaUnheard published a report from Community Correspondent Vrinda Azad that showed how children at the Jairamnagar Primary School were forced to put their lives on line to get drinking water.. The hand pump in their school had not been functional for over 4 months. Now, less then a [...]
Tweet For the first time in 2 years the women of Kanpar have the pleasure of listening to the sound of a running tap in their homes. Shantu Panchal, a student, will no longer waste her time getting water but will be able to spend it reading and attending college. Using her camera, Community Correspondent [...]
Tweet Community Correspondent Neeru Rathod brought an end to the unsanitary conditions that had been plaguing 20 families in Sayala block for years, in a matter of days. Her weapon? The angst of the community and the visual evidence she had gathered. A video published on 17th April 2013 documented the unhygienic conditions that one neighbourhood of Sayala [...]
Tweet An IndiaUnheard Video titled ’Cancerous dust smothers rural Rajasthan‘ was turned into a change.org petition on which over 3500 people signed in favor of shutting down 5 illegal asphalt factories that were making life a living hell for the adjoining villages. Video Volunteers contacted the Pollution Board and helped apply institutional pressure. By November 2012, [...]
Tweet 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 and asked her to [...]
Tweet After a spate of videos from the eastern state of Odisha documenting the utter failure of the social security system to deliver pensions to its senior citizens, an IndiaUnheard community video and a stubborn Community Correspondent (CC) helped 27 senior citizens realize the colors of change. For the last two months, the elderly of [...]
Tweet The Government Primary School in Nimora Block of Raipur, Chhattisgarh, has become a shining example for other schools in the area. This is one of those rare schools where the mid-day meal scheme is being implemented properly. The video (http://youtu.be/7NEBNhsHBqI) made by Community Correspondent Sarwat Naqvi, documenting this was shown in various schools across [...]
Tweet Summer is cruel to the villages of North Gujarat, bringing in its wake four months of arid heat, scorched earth and dried wells. For many years now, the residents of Sayala Block in Surendranagar district have had to await the arrival of the monsoon for any form of respite. Neglected by their government and [...]
Tweet 34 senior citizens in a village in the state of Jharkhand were approved for senior citizen pension of Rs. 400/- a month in the year 2008. But the money never seemed to arrive. They made numerous trips to the Block Development office and the bank where they had opened their accounts. Each time, they [...]
Tweet In July 2012 IndiaUnheard published a video from rural Gujarat which documented how people in Kasipara village were suffering from Fluorosis an ailment that could easily be avoided. Says Impact Manager Tania Devaiah “This was one of those videos which moved people to take action.” Over 2300 people signed an online petition on Change.org. After a [...]
Tweet The unlikely configuration of a powerful community video (Untouchability Caught on Camera) produced by a determined videoactivist, a change.org petition by one of India’s leading social activists and a blockbuster television program hosted by a Bollywood superstar came together to put an end to the 2000 year old practice of ‘untouchability’ in a village [...]
Tweet On 9th May 2011 IndiaUnheard published a video, which documented how compulsory Census duties were hampering the teaching abilities of teachers at the Machandur Primary School in Ambagad Chowki area of Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh. As a consequence of Community Correspondent Bhan Sahu’s initial video the situation was brought to light in front of different officials [...]
Tweet In a video published on 9th August 2012, IndiaUnheard Community Correspondent Saroj Paraste uncovered abysmal conditions of maternal and child health care in Sakhri Village, Madhya Pradesh. The villagers had not seen the appointed Nurse Mid-wife, Kalpana Patel and Multi Purpose Health Worker, Baldev Bhavedi since 24th September 2010. The video resulted in action being taken against [...]
Tweet IndiaUnheard’s youngest Community Correspondent used the powerful video testimony of a grieving woman in his village to plead her case and end corruption in the local Public Distribution System outlet. The old woman, Ms. Lalita Devi belongs to one of the most oppressed poverty stricken sections of society. She is a senior citizen, has no regular [...]
Tweet On 31st May 2012 IndiaUnheard published a story about two teachers in rural Jharkhand who had not received their wages for over four years. The video was picked up by change.org, a campaigning website. A wildly successful petition followed—in 3 days over 4000 people had signed in support of the two teachers. 800 petitioners directly called [...]
Tweet Inspired by an IndiaUnheard (IU) Community Video, a village crippled by water scarcity, begins to believe in the power of the people to take action and create change. In 3 months, the people work together to revive a 250 year old well. Over 7000 people who received water only once in four days now [...]
Tweet Columnist, blogger Vidyut Kale on a videoactivist’s successful campaign for sanitation in her town Karauli is a small town in Rajasthan, an arid desert state of India. Karauli market serves a population of about one million. It did not have proper toilet facilities and this was resulting in a major health hazard. In [...]
Tweet The IndiaUnheard network has created many leaders in some of the marginalized communities in the country. These exemplary yet unassuming individuals have not only produced videos focusing on the issues and concerns of their people but they have strived to actively alter the status quo and bring about change. The IndiaUnheard videos are democratic [...]
Tweet On the 24th of October, 2011 IndiaUnheard published a video by Community Correspondent Anand Pagare on the ubiquitous community notice board. Anand’s video chronicles the efforts of Shri. Santosh Jadhav, a local community worker in Nashik who was making a personal effort in trying to use these boards to the benefit of the communities. Shri. Jadhav [...]
Tweet On the 15th of May, 2012, IndiaUnheard published a video by our Karuali Correspondent Sunita Kasera titled ‘Organic Farming Prospers in Karauli District’ that documented how traditional farmers in rural areas of the district were increasingly moving away from chemical fertilizers because of the long term, irreparable damage to crops and soil. With help [...]
Tweet On 8th May, 2012 IndiaUnheard published a video by Community Correspondent Chunnu Hansda titled ‘All Work and No Pay for Jharkhand Teachers’ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7CNNSDxd_Qin) which two teachers, Pusha Hansda and Ramdev Soren, spoke about how they have been teaching the children and managing the affairs at a local school for over 4 years, without ever [...]
Tweet On 18th January 2012, IndiaUnheard published Community Correspondent Amol Lalzare’s video ‘From Death to Dereliction’ which put the spotlight on a cemetery in Mumbai that languished among pathetic conditions. Visitors to Graveyard complained of the discomfort caused by the lack of drinking water and basic hygiene. Bones and skulls were strewn across the grounds. It [...]
Tweet On 31st March, 2012, IndiaUnheard published a video produced by Chennai Community Correspondent Mani M. which chronicled a lone tribal girl’s unsuccessful attempts to enrol herself in teacher training school. The tribal girl Almelu was the first girl to complete her higher secondary in her Irula tribal community in the village of Gunavakam. But her inability to obtain the [...]
Tweet On 10th January 2012, IndiaUnheard published Community Correspondent Sunita Kasera’s video ‘No Escape From Illegal Alcohol’ which poignantly chronicled the lives of women who were former bootleggers of illegal alcohol in Karauli, Rajasthan. These women had attended vocational training organized by the government in order to reform but had been struggling to find livelihood since. The Navjeevan Yojna scheme under which [...]
Tweet “I’m passionate about the issue of education. The fact that I have managed to make change possible brings people to me with their problems. I do not want to be slotted as an educational activist but when a community comes to you with their problems, you cannot show them the door. Once you hear [...]
Tweet About the Video: It plays like the story that has launched a million Bollywood silver jubilees. A train departs from the station leaving one of its passengers behind – an eight year old boy. The boy can remember his name, Suraj, but his tender age and the shock and bewilderment of being separated from his [...]
Tweet A video made by Sarita Biswal, IndiaUnheard Community Correspondent from Kochila, Odisha inspires the people of her community to speack out and act against the oppression and menace of the timber mafia. Below is the account of the impact her video made within her community. In the village of Kochila, Odisha, a three minute [...]
Tweet “Mukesh Rajak, our young Community Correspondent from rural Jharkhand, reopens a village school that had shut down because of sheer negligence by the appointed teacher. He used his camera to document the miserable state of the students and their families. He presented the footage as evidence to education authorities in the district. The authorities swung into [...]
Tweet Varsha has been working as a Community Correspondent for one and a half year. She talks about the changes her work has brought to her life and to her community. “When I am speaking for the dalit, I am a dalit activist. When I am speaking for sexual minorities and women, I am a [...]
Tweet In Choki village, Gujarat, Dalit women have mobilized for water with the support of a Community Video Unit. Access to safe drinking water is a basic human right. But in Choki village, in Limdee Taluka, Gujarat, an area mainly populated by Dalits, the population had to fight to get water to flow in their [...]
Tweet Community Video brings growth and happiness to lives in the tea garden. In an initiative by ICICI Prudential and the International Labour Organization, Jawa Community Video Unit is the first of its kind to be established in the North East of India. Started in March 2010, Jawa is involved in training tea garden workers [...]
Tweet In Cotigaon, Goa Videoactivist Devidas G. screen his videos for his community Today, IndiaUnheard publishes a special video that chronicles our Community Correspondent Devidas’ attempt to organize a community screening in his village in Cotigaon, South Goa. “When people watch my videos on the internet, most viewers are those who have an interest in [...]
Tweet Our Correspondent Satyawan ensures that there have been no school dropouts in Mughalpura, Haryana. In 2005, Community Correspondent Satyawan Varma was elected Sarpanch (village head) of Mughalpura, Haryana. In his first year as Sarpanch, he gave special focus to education of village children. “One of my first programmes was the carrying out of a [...]
Tweet 600 female laborers in Maharashtra get equal pay because of our Community Correspondent Rohini Pawar’s video As a result of her video “Gender Bias In Wages’, women in her village now earn equal wages for equal work. Rohini is our Community Producer from rural Maharashtra. She comes from a farming community in the village of [...]
Tweet Sunita, our CC in Rajasthan enables women to get medication they are entitled to. Anganwadi centers aim at ensuring that the most vulnerable sections of Indian society, all over the country, get access to basic medicines. Thus, Anganwadi workers are in charge of distributing medicines and vaccinations to pregnant women, young mothers, and infants [...]
Tweet Ajeet Bahadur has been working as a Community Correspondent for one and a half year. He talks about the changes his work has brought to his life and to his community. Ajeet Bahadur was part of the first batch of Community Correspondents recruited by Video Volunteers in early 2010. After his training, he started [...]
Tweet The screening of an IndiaUnheard video about LGBT issues in Raipur inspires change. In mid-April of this year, a peaceful demonstration was organized in the streets of Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Inspired by the screening of a May 2010 IndiaUnheard report by Sarwat Naqvi, which exposed the difficulties faced by sexual minorities in Raipur, protesters took [...]
Tweet Schools are constructed for the children of brick kiln workers. In 2010, Satyawan, our Community Correspondent in Haryana, shot a video in Prabhuwada village, where the absence of schools deprived the children of their right to education. The kids, whose parents mostly work in the numerous local brick kilns were idling around, or getting [...]
Tweet Sunita, our Community Correspondent in Rajasthan ends corruption with her video Anganwadi centers aim at ensuring that the most vulnerable sections of Indian society, all over the country, get access to basic medicines. Thus, Anganwadi workers are in charge of distributing medicines and vaccinations to pregnant women, young mothers, and infants, until 6 years [...]
Tweet Mukesh Rajak, our Community Correspondent from Jharkhand, India helps end corruption in a school in his community and is given Youth Award. In recognition of his excellent work in reporting on social injustices in his community for IndiaUnheard, Mukesh was this week personally handed the Youth Award by the Chief Minister of the State. [...]
Tweet Corruption ends in one rural school in India’s Jharkhand state thanks to IndiaUnheard Mukesh Rajak, IndiaUnheard community correspondent, has made an impact in his community with his video ‘Pay Bribe, Take Education.’ The video made the local administration take action against a school that took bribes from students. ‘Pay Bribe, Take Education’ was Mukesh’s [...]
Tweet An IndiaUnheard video has helped over 500 people in a remote village of Manipur in North East India get healthcare for the first time.An IndiaUnheard video by Daniel Mate, our correspondent from Chandel district of Manipur, has inspired a local organization Burning Voices to donate a carload of lifesaving medicine for villagers who were [...]
