Mumbai

Lets make our neighborhoods cleaner!

VideoVolunteers — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:37:39 -0700

Filth and garbage are huge problems in the slums, with rotting waste piling up in the roads and hardly any municipal system for collecting waste. The Community Producers request their neighbors to take more responsibility and to stop dumping their garbage right outside their doors. The video takes slum dwellers on a visual journey with a piece of garbage, showing them the huge and unsustainable landfills where their garbage ends up, and introduces them to a hard-working woman who makes her living as a rag-picker in those landfills.

The Youth Can Do Anything

VideoVolunteers — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:03:58 -0700

This video uses stories of women rickshaw drivers and young extras in Bollywood dance scenes to encourage youth from the slums to pursue their dreams, with or without an education. It's energetic, polished look and its unconventional message attracted lots of youth at the screenings, and many have been inspired by this video to get involved in Akshara's work to create an alternative space for Youth in Mumbai.

Stop The Privatization of Water

VideoVolunteers — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:35:52 -0800

This video informed slum dwellers that the Mumbai Municipal Authority was planning to privatize their water. After the screenings, 300 people instead of the usual 60 showed up for a government meeting on water and demanded that the officials come clean about the plan and the costs to slum dwellers. Shortly after that meeting, the government halted the privatization plan in that part of Mumbai, and started supplying water twice a day instead of once in that particular area.