Distant voices...by Usha Dewani (Assam, India)

A Grassroots Comics workshop was organized by Usha of New Ways group in association with Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, Guwahati. The other trainers were Minakshi Gogoi, Sushmita Lahkar.
35 inmates of State home for Women participated in the workshop including 1 volunteer from Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti. The participants were minor girls, who are homeless, trauma struck or rescued victims of social vices like trafficking, prostitution, child labour etc.
The objective of the workshop was to help the participants express their suppressed feelings through the medium of comics. Majority of the participants could not read or write and the workshop was meant to bring a breakthrough in their usual way of communicating their concerns...