Video Volunteers and our partners are creating a global social media network, which provides solutions-based media for marginalized and poor communities around the world.
Based in New York and Ahmedabad, India, we have partnered with Drishti and a network of innovative Indian NGOs to develop a community media initiative in India that is using video to empower communities to take action around critical issues relevant to development. This “Community Video Unit” initiative is undertaken in partnership with leading NGOs around the world.
In the Community Video Unit model, 6-10 community members are trained as full-time, paid Community Video Producers. Every month, they produce a new local-language “Video Magazine” on a different social issue and screen it in slums and villages on widescreen projectors to up to 10,000 people.
