CESCI has organized theatre festivals and workshops since 1997 on different themes relevant to the lives of ordinary people. This is a serious effort to involve people associated with theatre to use their skills to address the problems of the deprived section of society. Artists and activists, trained in CESCI theatre festivals and workshops, have gone back to their own states and villages with the commitment to carry forward the agenda. One can see the result in terms of the number of groups formed in different states and in the number of programs conducted by these groups to mobilize and organize poor people to fight for justice.