Montfort Brother Varghese Theckanath is on a journey to make the voice of the voice-less heard in the main stream socie-ty. “Many interest-ing things happen among them, but only when a misfortune happens, their stories are reported,” bemoans Brother Theckanath, a grassroots activist promoting the rights of the urban poor. As a solution, the 67-year-old Brother has set up a sound and visual studio at Montfort Social Institute (MSI) at Ramanathapuram, Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad. The institute, affiliated to the Earth Charter Initiative, is a resource and training centre for the promotion of Human Rights Edu-cation and Sustainable Development Education. “I want to train about 100 youth from the families of migrants, domestic workers, street dwellers so that they can express their achieve-ments and grievances first hand,” Brother Theckanath, who had served as the Central India provincial of the Montfort Brothers of St Gabriel for six years, told.