Impact : Freedom from Diseases and Stench
Channel: VideoVolunteers
Date: 10/06/2015

It was awful just going and looking at it. So I went and filmed the fetid water that was gushing through and got interviews of the women who lived in the area,” says Amol.

 

His intervention however wasn’t welcomed, he recalls what happened next, “When I returned home that evening I got an anxious call from one of the residents telling me that the Corporator of the area (who has been elected three times from there) had gotten really pissed off that I went and filmed a video that showcased his blatant neglect. ‘Why did you people have to go call a journalist? You should have come to me first,’ he had told the residents. Anyway, I had been summoned but I refused to go because I didn’t want there to be any drama; I didn’t want to get beaten up or want my camera destroyed. 

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