WWW Wonder Womaniya: Celebrating the Women of 2021 -

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“There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice.” – Michelle Obama

With this objective in mind, Women Who Win gave an opportunity to women to celebrate their unique stories through our campaign ‘WWW WONDER WOMANIYA 2021’.

This campaign was conceptualized to support women in realizing their dreams. We aimed to empower women to embrace their journey of identity, independence, setbacks and achievements.

The event was graced with the presence of our esteemed jury members, some special guests of honour and all our sponsors who very graciously agreed to sponsor amazing goodies for our participants. The winners were: Chanchal Gaur, Pooja Bawa, Abha Mehta and Anupama Sharma from Delhi, Rachna Narang, Sunita Krishna, Nipa Thaker and Avani Bhayani from Mumbai, Rumpa Biswas from Pune and Neelima Thakur from Pondicherry. Deepali Gocke won the ‘Best Travel Story” prize whereas Meena Baid bagged a special recognition. All the winners’ stories are being published here in WOMENSHINE MAGAZINE.

Rachana Narang

Home Chef

I am Rachana Narang. My journey from nowhere to somewhere started more than 5 years ago. I am a Housewife mother an entrepreneur and a mother-in-law too. I started my journey as a home chef through social media where I enrolled myself and started getting orders and I was a preferred chef and people started knowing me as “Rachana The home chef ” I was associated with as Captain cook at that time.

There was no looking back after that. I became “Kitchen Queen” in the Cooking contest organized by WOMEN WHO WIN(WWW) and Telebrands HBN released on the youtube channel** Zukazo. I had people working under me and I became an entrepreneur as I also entered the corporate world. I was able to cater to many offices and many children staying as pg in and around my vicinity. I am very proud to say that I was called as a guest speaker to share my story on *InstaLIVE interviews * with WWW and according to the feedback was able to inspire many people. My only key to success is *Never say NO*. I am happy for myself and I can vouch that my family and friends are proud of me.

E-mail: rachana.knarang@gmail.com

Brand Name and Link: The Home Chef’s Kitchen

Avani Bhayani

Educationist & Passionate Chef

I’m not everything that has ever happened to me, I’m everything; I became while I healed.

Stronger but softer. Focused but not obsessed. A teacher but still a student. I’m not broken; I’m beautiful; I’m a survivor. Hello everyone! I’m Avani teacher by profession and a passionate chef. First of all, I would like to thank the fairy who has touched my life with her magical wand; she is none other than Simi Bhasin (founder of WWW) who gave me the opportunity earlier to participate in the ‘Kitchen Queen’ contest which helped me in many ways though I wasn’t the winner still my achievement is big. I got the opportunity to come LIVE on the very famous show ‘Zayka ka Tadka’ and I’m also invited to many highly esteemed schools to judge for cooking skills and conduct workshops as well. My story begins here…

When I was born; it was a disgrace for the family, especially for my grandmother, because I was a girl child. She used to jeer my mother for not having a boy child. I started overthinking at a very tender age. Later, I made up my mind and thought I will prove not only her but the world; Women are equal to men. I was good in academics. I started teaching when I was just 15 years old (9th standard). I used to teach not for financial support but to prove myself. There was a lot of pressure with growing age again because I’m a girl. Along with teaching, I also had to learn all the household chores. And during this phase, I got to know my interest in cooking. Believe me; I use to not only teach students but also cook for them during their exams. These students are my extended family and my one of the reasons to live. I studied and completed my graduation with teaching more than 42 students in the same year and also completed a few certified courses. 1)Diploma in Child Education and Child care for 2 years.2) Remedial teaching (1 year). I was the gem of the college for all the professors as I was always ready to help in organizing Cultural programs. After leaving college with a heavy heart; I completed my B.Ed all by myself without taking any financial support. During this phase, I learned I’m suffering from many health problems like hypertension, Water retention, Low blood pressure and also did Bariatric surgery as I was putting on weight due to all this stress. Still kept faith in myself and fought all these battles. Later, I got a job in a reputed school. Here my skills were recognized by my mentors. And I was given the opportunity to teach students Cooking without fire, Creative Writing along with teaching. I am still teaching those who can’t afford to go for tuitions and special children and conduct workshops in orphanages which is the biggest secret I’m sharing here. My future motto is to work for my country; educate girls and teach basic cooking to all the young generation. I want to teach & cook for India. Today I’m standing with my head high; only because of the support from my husband and my parents.

Email: avani.bhayani1008@gmail.com

Neelima Thakur

Entrepreneur

I am Neelima Thakur. Basically from Mumbai now I am settled at Karaikal in Pondicherry. I started my business from home in 2015. A sudden spark to do something was behind my mind to keep it engaged as worrying over my health made me depressed. I kept researching the natural properties of different oils which rendered hair health as well herbs which enhanced hair health and then gradually I landed upon an idea to launch a combination of different natural oils as a product to solve multiple issues like dryness, dandruff, hair fall, itching scalp, and scanty hair. It’s few applications gave good results thus slowly the oil gained good customers who recommended to their family and friends. After 3 months I formulated another oil for Reversing and Preventing Greying in growing children. Again after some time, I launched a nourishing combination of Natural oils and slight herbal extracts blends for the baby’s regular applications. Slowly I added a few more hair care-related products which are effective and safe for the entire family.

I have 3 grown-up children. In my leisure time, I nurture my brand, Shine Herbals which deals in homemade, herbal hair oils specifically for Regrowth in hairless areas. It works well on hormonal imbalance, psoriasis, alopecia, thinning, bald patches, hereditary baldness, chemotherapy treatment undergone by people, postpartum hair fall, and many more hair-related issues naturally giving 100% satisfactory results. We have many types of specific oils for different complaints and Skin Care Products. All-natural and safe. Shine Herbals has a range of almost 9 Hair Care and 8 Skin Care Products. Effective, Economical and Eco-Friendly Products is our Forte

Initially, we could not find a suitable courier service as almost every shipping service refused to accept oils delivery, then we found not good quality bottle supplies regularly, some courier service didn’t even deliver products and shipments were lost. Facing adversities made my decision stronger not to quit come what may and today I have almost 6500+ clientele around the globe to my credit maintaining faith and understanding with ever improvising high-quality products range. I want to support Differently Abled Women gain confidence and a steady income through my brand.

Miracles Happen At Shine Herbals