Shortlisted Entries
Shweta Danane
- Age: 39
- City: Pune
- Shweta Danane, Chichwad, Email id :- sweta.danane@gmail.com
Now a days everyone is attracted towards Film Industry but, it is not easy to succeed
there. It requires a lot of struggle and perseverance to gain Success there. Even I
admire this industry a lot not for fame but , as Source of Social awareness I had a chance to stay at various places in India as my Father is Retired Central Govt.
Officer and he served at various places during his career. My mother is a graduate and is a Writer. Siblings are Doctor's and Lawyer. I did my schooling from Kendriya
Vidyalaya Ganesh Khind, Pune and moved on for B.Sc. to Garware College, Pune.
Further I did my M.C.M. from Indira Institute of Management. After completing my
studies, I joined one of the reputed companies as an Executive and toiled hard over
next few years to reach the position of a Manager. But I always wanted to do something
different and slowly started getting involved in other areas and activities along with my
work. I got a lucky break one day while watching the play rehearsals of one of my office
colleagues. I wanted to give acting a try and my colleague helped me get an opportunity
in the same play. Order- Order and then I did not look back. Now along with my job, I
started devoting my time and energy into Acting and Social work activities. I was a part
of a few Short Movies like Rokam, Rokeeda, Prajakta along with my Social work. Even
these movies were on Social awareness causes like save girl child, education, mobile
addiction, Andha Shraddha Nirmulan etc. Due to my inclination towards Social causes,
all the work I did in these movies was honorary and I did not charge a single penny for
the same.
I have also walked on Ramp for Plastic ban. Won title of Iron Lady, through Maharashtra
Ladies Association. I was honored by Wipro Cares on occasion of Woman's day for my support
given to NGO's. I was also awarded by MePadvidhar team for my Good job in Social Work
I have made many videos on NGO's which needs support and flashed on my YouTube channel
and Elixir Productions flashed on social media for people to come forward and help I'm also a
blog writer for one of the reputed newspaper, where I have highlighted challenges/ information
of NGO's. My work for Various social causes like 'Give water to birds during summer', Swatch
Bharat Abhiayaan, Help NGO's etc was appreciated by Leading Newspaper's.
I also do photography which covers Society challenges like Save Tree, Child Labor have got
them published in Leading Newspapers for people to work on the issues.
I got certificate of nomination from iB Hubs Super 30 as Best teacher.
I did not let my office work suffer due to these activities and got involved in these
activities on my weekends after dedicated 5 days of office work. On weekends, I
generally spend my time in Orphanages with kids. We get involved in activities like
Storytelling, Jokes, Singing, reading and dancing. It instills a lot of positive energy in me
Sensitivity: Internal and Restricted
after seeing the lovely smiles on their innocent faces. Also even I get to learn a lot from
these lovely angels.
I strongly advocate the view of Coming out of our comfort zone and spreading our
services towards our society as well and not restrict ourselves to our family and office.
Also, we should have more movies on social causes which will help in spreading the
awareness on these issues and help in bringing more people who would be eager to
contribute towards these.
All of us should get above the material pleasures in life and pass back some of the
happiness to the not so privileged people in our society. It need not be a very big
contribution, rather it can be as small as helping poor people get some education or
helping the old and unattended people sometimes so that we can bring a smile on their
faces. It will give you a bigger satisfaction than any promotion or Financial gains can
give you.
If we all start doing this and motivate others to do this, the society will be a better place
to live and human values will again start being respected. Nobody can succeed or stay
without society or Human relations. In current situation, it really worries me to see that
Human values and relations have taken a backstage to the material pleasures. If we all
take small steps towards social upliftment, we can make a huge difference in the
society.
I would give full credit to my mother for instilling this thought process in my mind which
has always given me energy and passion to move in this direction. She has always
been at my side while I followed every Passion and dreams of my life."