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Danielle Batist is an experienced freelance journalist, founder of Journopreneur and co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Project. She lived and worked all around the globe and covered global and local stories of poverty, exclusion and injustice. Increasingly, she moved beyond ‘problem-reporting’ to include stories about the solutions she found. She witnessed the birth of the new nation of South Sudan and interviewed the Dalai Lama. She reported for Al Jazeera, BBC and the Guardian and regularly advises independent media organisations on innovation and sustainability. She loves bringing stories to the world and finding the appropriate platforms to do so. The transformation of traditional media fascinates rather than scares her. While both the medium and the message are changing, she believes the need for good storytelling remains.
An Extraordinary One-Man’s Job: Meet Ambulance Dada
I find myself consuming more video on social media these days. I think the simple reason for it is that there just is so much well-made journalistic ‘shortform’ out there now. I’ve been enjoying Al Jazeera’s #AJShort series on Twitter, where they tell stories of extraordinary individuals in about 6 minutes.
This one, made by Al Jazeera journalist Priyanka Gupta, features Karimul Haque. He is 52, a tea garden worker and lives in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. But that’s not all he does. With his wages, he bought a motorbike and turned it into a free ambulance service for villagers who need emergency medical care.
In this striking short film, he explains how he’s driven by the unnecessary death of his mother in 1995. She felt unwell but her family wasn't able to get her to hospital because there was no transport. She passed away a few hours later. To this day, Haque feels he might have been able to save her. So he tied a home-painted sign to his bike with the words ‘ambulance: day and night free service’. Since then, he has taken over 4,000 people in need to hospital and there’s no sign of him stopping.
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