Zulekha Sayyed, Filmmaker, India Segment

Zulekha Sayyed is a film editor, CC trainer, and one of the longest standing members of Video Volunteers from the slums of Mumbai.

Back in 2006, when she first joined Video Volunteers at the age of 15, she wasn’t the boisterous person she is today. “I could be found sitting in the corner,” she recalls, “Now people need to tell me to keep quiet!” As part of the Community Video Unit with Yuva, an NGO, Zulekha focussed on raising and solving the issues of her own neighbourhood - Parksite in Vikhroli, a suburb of Mumbai.  “Water and sewage are the biggest problems of my neighbourhood,” says Zulekha.  

Her community resides in the slums, right in the centre of an upcoming suburb in the ever-expanding Mumbai and therefore are seen as a ‘problem’. The re-developers, along with officials of the city, are trying to make Parksite ‘slum-free’ in lieu of assimilating communities through better public facilities such as water, sanitation and waste management and community assimilation.

Episode 1: Water

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