Project duration: Ongoing
Project's focus area: Using media to accelerate social change, defend human rights and provide a platform for voice
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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.
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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 loca cable. |
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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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The purpose of Community Media is not to show the bad that is happening in the world, it is to ask what you intend to do about it."
- Jessica Mayberry, Executive Director and Founder, Video Volunteers
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Jessica Mayberry,
Founding Director
Video Volunteers C/O Temin and Company
750 Lexington Avenue 26th Floor
New York, New York 10022
Tuvalu
1-646-505-8605
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