See the immense possibilities of Video Volunteers - of what participative empowering media can do for people.

Video Volunteers gives people their voice back. As Salman Rushdie had said " Those who do not have power over the stories that dominate their lives, power to retell them, rethink them, deconstruct them, joke about them, and change them as times change, truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts".....Video Volunteers gives communities the space to think new thoughts.

The project creates a media network for the poor to accelerate social change by creating teams of Producers who create monthly Video Programs that are screened to local communities and globally.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries:
To support the creation of Community Video Units among the poor across India, employ local Producers to create Video Magazines every month on critical social issues, and to distribute these videos to a wide audience in slums and villages to create social change. The beneficiaries will be hundreds poor & marginalized individuals, thousands of people within their communities and the NGOs supporting them.

Activities:
Creation of 10 new Community Video Units in 2007, and distribution online and on TV. Each CVU will have 5-10 local Community Producers in partnership with a local NGO. Monthly Video Productions shown on widescreen projectors and local cable.

Potential Long Term Impact:
With the creation of a Network of 100s of Community Video Producers, we can give a voice to 1000s of poor communities in the developing world and democratize the media.



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