Grassroots Media for Social Change!

Eighteen participants from different parts of South Asia expressed a range of concerns through comics phrased in their local languages. These participants working in different themes in their respective areas not only produced comics but as trained another batch of 22 participants.

The Grassroots Media Course on using comics for social change was held in Delhi in April 2009. The course was done in collaboration with World Comics, Pravah Learning Voyages and Commutiny- The Youth Collective. The course kicked of with a Comics Workshop. It was facilitated by Sharad Sharma (World Comics India) who along with Leif Packalen (World Comics Finland) shared fantastic experience with World Comics from across the world on conducting comics campaign while Ashraf Patel (Pravah and  commutiny) offered different perspective on youth development.

 

Akokla from Nagaland; Usha, Manas and Hima from Assam; Chandan and Jitendra from MP; Shashi, Prangya and Bharati from Orissa; Ishwar and Visheshwar from Chhatisgarh; Madhav and Sarika from Maharashtra; Shivkumar from Karnataka, Ritika and Kritika from Delhi, Robin from Nepal and Nida Shams from Pakistan are the young minds who participated,  while two WCI seniors Sunder Mohan  Murmu and Lakindra Nayak from Jharkhand observed the whole process.

 

Following the workshop the participants would be organizing social campaigns and comics workshops in their communities over the next few weeks using comics for social change. So, watch this space for more from the field! 

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