Anganwadi present, building absent
Channel: VideoVolunteers
Date: 26/09/2014

Our VV-PACS Community Correspondent, Mister Alam, reports from Saidhanpur village, in Hilsa Block of Nalanda district in Bihar, on the absence of a separate building for the Anganwadi there. The Anganwadi has continued to function out of the verandah of the village’s primary school since its establishment in 2004. The lack of a building means that the children aren’t sheltered from the elements and studying becomes uncomfortable in these circumstances. Water has to be brought from far away because the two hand-pumps of the primary school don’t work and preparing the mid-day meals without the presence of a kitchen on the premises is an additional challenge.

CALL TO ACTION: Call the Child Development Project Officer for Hilsa Block, on +91-9431005088, and demand that the Anganwadi gets its own building so that the good work done by the people running it can go on unhindered.

About the Partnership: The Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) Programme and Video Volunteers have come together to create the Community Correspondents Network. The videos generated by the network will be able to highlight voices from the margins, providing skills to social communicators to provide advocacy tools to community based organisations.