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Goa-based Video Volunteers is training locals to become citizen journalists

Video Volunteers has created a scalable media platform in which each published video fits into the overall editorial plan

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Geetanjali Krishna
Somewhere in India, there’s a government health facility where intra-uterine contraceptive devices were inserted in women who came there for deliveries without their consent. Somewhere in India, there’s a village that was supposed to have received funds under the Swachh Bharat scheme to construct toilets — but its residents still have to defecate in the open as no toilets have actually been built. Somewhere in India, villagers have to wade through dirty, stagnant water that collects on the road — for at least five months in a year. It is stories like these and more, told by people who are

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