[Reader-list] Call for IndiaUnheard Community Correspondents: Nominate Your Candidates

[Siddharth Pillai]

Dear Friends,


Can you help us identify a new group of IndiaUnheard Community
Correspondents? We're looking for passionate community members whom we can
train to become the voice of their communities.

As you may know, Video Volunteers launched its community news service,
IndiaUnheard, on 3rd of May 2010. Since then, we have trained 45 people to
be community correspondents; together these people have produced 275 videos.
You can see the videos on our website
http://indiaunheard.videovolunteers.org/, where we are currently releasing
one video per day.

VV's goal is to eventually have one "Community Correspondent" in each of
India's 645+ districts. So it's time for us to recruit the next batch of
correspondents!

Can you help? Since you are associated with grassroots communities in India,
we are asking you once again for nominations from your circle.

Please take a moment to think of people who would benefit from this
opportunity, and who could become skilled communicators of the social causes
we are fighting for.

*Here are the criteria for candidates we will accept. They must be:*

· From disadvantaged backgrounds or marginalized communities

· Creative, intelligent and enterprising

· Involved in social movements or NGOs

· Speak, read and write either Hindi or English

They do not need any media or journalism experience. VV will provide them
equipment, training and a stipend. As community correspondents, their job
will be to produce a minimum of two short videos a month on different
community issues, as part of a large network of community correspondents,
from every state in India. *We are particularly looking for women.*

The applications must reach us by 10th July 2011.

Read the overview of the program
HERE<http://www.videovolunteers.org/programmes/indiaunheard/>

Fill out the application
HERE<https://videovolunteersindia.wufoo.com/entries/community-correspondent-application-form/>along
with the activist you are nominating

Read the FAQ<http://www.videovolunteers.org/programmes/indiaunheard/indiaunheard-program-frequently-asked-questions>,
and get all your questions about the program answered

Once again, here's a chance to offer a new direction to the grassroots
activists you know. It's a chance to equip the communities you work in with
relevant communication tools and enable them to report on everything from
rights violations to successful struggles against oppression.

Looking forward to your help and solidarity in finding the right people.

With many thanks,

Stalin K., Jessica Mayberry and the Video Volunteers team

http://videovolunteers.org <http://videovolunteers.org>

email: info at videovolunteers.org