Ms. Anita Borkar

Co-founder

Founder of Abhivyakti Media for Development

Ms. Anita Borkar is the co-founder of Abhivyakti Media for Development (1987)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education, livelihood, women & children and rural & agriculture from Nashik.

Abhivyakti Media for Development

Working from Nashik since 1987, Abhivyakti Media for Development uses community media, information and communication to empower marginalized communities in Maharashtra's tribal belt. It trains barefoot communicators, runs community learning centres, publishes development media, and organizes tribal women into self-help groups for livelihoods like sericulture in Dindori's villages.

Abhivyakti Media for Development reports the following, on its own site:

Capacity building for more than 130 community members from 52 villages under the Madhyam Sakhi programme
Village libraries run in 13 villages and film screenings in 22 villages through Madhyam Sakhis