Media support to voluntary organizations


Charkha provides media support individually to voluntary organizations to highlight various developmental issues and efforts in mainstream media.

Charkha is providing media support to the organizations that are working for local issues. Information about their issue-based programmes should reach to the people through newspapers, is the main objective of Charkha.

For last 13 years, more than hundred voluntary organizations got media support for their different 200 programmes. These programmes covered various subjects that are mainly – 0rganic farming, water, education, rehabilitation after earthquake, child rights, occupational health, dalits, Panchayati Raj, issues related to women, disability, land ownership, right to information, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(NREGA) etc.

Charkha representatives attend the programmes organized by voluntary organizations and ask to concern media persons for coverage of the programmes. Press note of programme and write-ups about subject are to be prepared and published in different newspapers of the Gujarat. Many programmes affect large mass positively.

List of the some subjects/issues that are included under the programme:
  1. Dalit issues, Dalit rights
  2. Relief work and rehabilitation after natural disaster.
  3. Organic farming
  4. Health and occupational health.
  5. Education (elementary education, compulsary education etc.)
  6. Child rights
  7. Child labour
  8. Panchayati Raj (urban self-governance, rural self-governance, praise-worthy working of female sarpanchs)
  9. Water (drinking water problems, efforts of taking care of natural resources)
  10. Women (leadership, problems, female and atrocity, women and land ownership, misery of single womanhood etc.)
  11. Environment and pollution
  12. Problems and rights of unorganized labour groups
  13. Problems and rights of tribal
  14. Disability and development
  15. Efforts for communal harmony
  16. Efforts to stop increasing cases of suicide
  17. Right to information law 2005
  18. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(NREGA)
  19. Land rights of marginalized community
  20. Impact of globalization on the poor
  21. Food Security
  22. Book release and prize distribution programme. 

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