Thrive
How Ekjut delivered 1 Million Days of Child Care in Rural Odisha
Team PPT headed to the remote villages of Odhisa's Keonjar District with Ekjut India to document their astounding work on child day-care creches. Ekjut has been working at grassroots levels for the past 17 years in some of the most remotest and backward rural and tribal areas of Jharkhand and Odisha.
Producer
Sudharak Olwe, PPT
year
2018
Profile
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Script
Togetherness
Lakhs of Women in rural India head out of homes to work, collect firewood and do many such tasks often accompanied by their children under the age of 3 as there are no other alternatives. This severly affects the development of a child, Ekjut has been working tirelessly to setup commuity backed creches in remote hamlets and villages across Odisha. This film explores the need and how a creche is setup in a community and its various facets.
Photograhy Promotion Trust
The PPT is a non-profit organisation that uses the skills of photography to create definitive change in the lives of socially marginalised communities and promotes Social documentary photography.
