World Comics India is a New Delhi-based organization working across the country to promote the use of Grassroots Comics as a medium of self-expression and strengthen democratic processes. Starting in the nineties, WCI has conducted more than 1500 comics workshops in the most remote and challenging areas of the globe and trained over 150,0000 common people. WCI empowers the community by developing their communication skills, helping to document their stories, and also raising crucial issues in the most creative and non-threatening manner. World Comics India has worked on issues like Health, Education, Homeless, Conflict, Gender, Girl Child Rights, HIV/AIDS, Environment, Corporal Punishment, Local Governance, Stereotyping, Discrimination, etc. WCI has also organized several social campaigns on various issues.
World Comics India’s (WCI) vision is to create a world where everyone can speak up for themselves and be an agent of change.
World Comics India’s mission is to help people raise their voice and reach by being storytellers and using media to empower themselves and create a better world. We do this by introducing media tools that can help them talk about their situation and also express their aspiration to better themselves, society, and the community. We also believe in the power of media and communication for sustainable development and hence strive to make everyone a good storyteller and communicator. Predominantly, we use comics as a medium where people can draw and express themselves thus being and becoming the voice of the unheard millions.
WCI Founder Mr. Sharad Sharma was awarded Ashoka Fellowship for his innovation in the public category in 2005.
WCI was awarded the Communication For Social Change Award by the University of Queensland, Australia, and the Communication For Sustainable Social Change Award University of Massachusetts, USA
WCI developed a unique and cost-effective communication tool in the form of grassroots comics
In the last decades, WCI has trained over 1,50,000 people in more than 25 countries across the globe
WCI has trained over 10,000 Trainers in South Asia
WCI developed a unique Grassroots Comics Campaign Methodology that helps to ensure participation of the community
WCI has introduced Grassroots Comics as a teaching-learning tool and trained over 1000 government school teachers in the states of Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh
WCI helped marginalized communities like the homeless, nomadic tribes, immigrants, etc to help document their stories and make their voices heard
WCI developed a curriculum for teachers and students on Adolescents Health Education
WCI developed content and modules on the Digital Safety theme and initiated a media campaign on the same.
Why should a corporate partner with organization?
Corporates must partner with World Comics India for the following reasons :
One of the rare organizations that promote Community Media
World Comics India developed Grassroots Comics methodology but also popularized the same across the globe. This indigenous initiative must be supported.
Through its participatory communication methodology, WCI has touched upon several crucial and sensitive issues in the past, which is otherwise not discussed or debated openly. Because of the non-threatening nature of the medium like Grassroots Comic, the NGOs and communities easily adapt to it.
WCI initiative Grassroots Comics asa teaching-learning tool in school education has the potential to be scaled up at the national level. This would not only help in improving learning levels but also provide a tool for expression to both school teachers and the students.
We have conducted over 1500 Skill development workshops
We have trained over 10,000 trainers
We have trained more than 1500 government teachers
We have introduced Grassroots Comics as a teaching-learning tool in govt run schools in UP, Chhattisgarh, etc.
We have conducted several issue-focused Campaigns on nomadic tribes, stereotypes, environmental education, girl child rights, corporal punishment, children's participation in local governance, etc
We have developed the basic and trainer modules in more than 10 languages
We have introduced Comics Journalism in more than 25 universities.
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