Not only are wages in the country low in general, women get even lower wages than men.
Launch of the Merck for Mothers program
Gram Vaani and the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood have been funded to build a novel quality-of-care checklist program in Jharkhand, to bring accountability to health...
Voices from Mobile Vaani: Aadhaar for midday meals – yay or nay?
On February 28th 2017, the Indian government announced that students who wish to have midday meals
Appreciation at Rockefeller Foundation’s Rock Talk on water scarcity
The Rockefeller Foundation is organizing a series of discussions around various civic issues in the Indian urban and rural space, and took up the topic...
Answering questions on sexuality through Kahi Ankahi Baatein
Young people have many questions on their body, relationships, their identities and safer sex, which are, unfortunately, taboo subjects to talk about in India.
Idea # 4: Using Community Media to Build Community Institutions for Development
What is common among these three stories from different parts of Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh, is that community volunteers associated with Mobile Vaani helped...
Workshop on web-radio with CEMCA
Gram Vaani worked with CEMCA (Commonwealth Educational Media Center for Asia) to organize a workshop on how educational institutions can easily set up an Internet...
Running Campaigns on Community Radio : Experience Document
There are over 25 community radio (CR) stations in India running GRINS. GRINS provides these stations with crucial capabilities to air broadcast programs on radio and solicit...
Enable Vaani: a social network for people with disabilities
In collaboration with Enable India, we developed an IVRS service specifically for persons with disabilities – Namma Vaani in Karnataka, and Hamaari Vaani in Hindi-speaking states.