Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 6: Video Volunteers (VV), an international community media organization has expended its operations in eight districts of Jammu region.
With the increase of 12 more community correspondents under its Kashmir Unheard program, Video Volunteers now has a network of 22 community correspondents in J&K.
VV trains people from ‘media dark’ areas in video journalism and storytelling and has a network of more than 210 community correspondents across India.
The aim of Video Volunteers is to highlight the issues which often remain unreported and find solutions to the problems people across rural India face on day to day basis like, infrastructure, development, corruption and human rights etc.
VV believes in creating a model of ‘solution based journalism’ in which not only an issue is documented in audio visual format but the CCs are also equipped with the knowledge to resolve them. Community correspondents not only document the issue but later do a follow up with the officials as well to resolve the same. In the same process a community correspondent is supported by the community and helped by people watching the content online by calling on the official numbers given as a ‘call to action’ at the end of each video. So far in past 2 years more than 240 video reports have been created from Kashmir valley including 30 impact videos.
“We are working towards creating a democratic model of journalism in J&K, where the stories are reported by those who live it in their day to day life; we train people from social movements, equip them with journalistic skills and train them in video filming so that they are able to expose injustices and work towards the resolution of problems”, said Sajad Rasool, State Producer/Coordinator of Video Volunteers J&K program. Video Volunteers is creating a grass roots journalism network across India by training one person from each district, he added.
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