By Jessica Mayberry | Founding Director
India's recent presidential elections made news around the world, and the Video Volunteers Community Correspondents were covering them too. Sunita Kasera is our Correspondent from Rajasthan, and she is pictured below on election day, filming a story about a woman's repeatedly failed efforts to get a voter registration card.
A forty year old mother of two from a very feudal part of Rajasthan, her education was cut short years ago after her husband made her stay at home immediately after marriage. But years later, she's found a new purpose in life through Video Volunteers. Asked by a Belgian reporter how she felt about the fact that so many rural women like her have trouble exercising their franchise, Sunita paused. Eventually, she replied that she herself one day hoped to stand for election. Certainly, the dozens of videos she has made have made her an excellent choice - she is a wealth of information not only on the problems of the area, but also the solutions to them. We've had a great year at Video Volunteers, and we hope you'll check out our new annual report.
There is one highlight we want to share in particular -- we tripled our impact! in 111 instances, the Community Correspondents managed to solve the problem the video addresses. In all of these of these cases, the lives of truly marginalized community members concretely improved because their local government started functioning better and they received the services they truly deserved.
And with all of the hundreds of videos we made, communities were informed and mobilized, and went through an experience VV has come to know as transformative - they began to see that solutions are possible; and must be created from within their communities.
Please do skim our annual report to read more of what we are particularly proud of - our campaigns on issues like land rights, education and untouchability; our most successful videos; our new network of all Tribal Community Correspondents.
We would love to hear from you to talk more about our work, so please be in touch!
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