Shaunak Chakraborty is an Indian teacher, social worker, writer, author, poet, researcher and the founder of Noble Work Foundation was born on 23 December 2000 in India's former capital Kolkata which is the present capital of Indian state West Bengal. He is popularly known for his poems written in India's national language Hindi. He is the chairperson of Fridays For Future Virtual.
About
Shaunak worked closely with UN Volunteers India. He joined V-Force India in September 2019, in April 2020 during the COVID-19 campaign he had worked in the V-Force Translation Team to translate the COVID graphics in Hindi language.
Shaunak is a volunteer since he was 7 years old. That is the reason he is called Born To Volunteer. Officially he is volunteering for various organization since 2011 when he was 10. He joined HelpAge India as a Child Volunteer in that year.
He joined the Bharat Scouts and Guides in April 2010 when he was in 4th standard. Initially, he was part of various activities and engaged in many other programs and functions.
He had created his patrol, named Elephant Patrol, and became the Captain of it. There were 12 members in his patrol, at every scout gathering he represents his patrols.
On the auspicious occasion of the Republic Day of 2012, we have taken part in our school parade and he was leading his patrol. The journey with Bharat Scouts and Guides comes to an end on 31 March 2012.
He joined HelpAge India in April 2011 as a Child Volunteer, at that time he was 10 years old. He was a part of various campaigns which were organized in collaboration with his school.
Mainly he was involved in the campaigns which were organized to help the poor, homeless aged people.
In September 2011, he started involving in the fundraising campaigns along with other campaigns as well. He spread awareness in society and encouraged other children of his age at that time to join these campaigns so that they could able to collect as many funds as they can. He also visited home to home for asking for donations in Air Force Station, Dinjan.
In Jodhpur, India he used to collect food especially extra food from restaurants and distribute it to less fortunate children. Mostly they do this on weekends.
He have joined Hamari Pahchan NGO in February 2022 as an Intern and soon left it in March 2022 during this period of a month he had created a supporting fundraiser and share the link with the team. Taken the help of the videos.
Broadcast the fundraiser link with his friends and family, with a personalise a message to encourage his family and friends to contribute towards the social cause. Kept the link of his supporting fundraiser on his WhatsApp status, Instagram story and on Instagram bio.
In the year 2019, he joined V-Force India which is an initiative of United Nations Volunteers India. Initially, he took part in the International Youth Day 2019 campaign and raised various issues of youth to which awareness is required. Later he took part in other campaigns such as International Volunteer Day 2019, International Women's Day 2020, COVID-19 Campaign 2020, International Youth Day 2020, and so on.
In 2020 as the pandemic was there all over the world so he joined the COVID-19 Campaign and later joined the V-Force Translation Team whose work was to translate the graphics related to COVID-19 to the local languages of India as this pandemic was novel so all the graphics were also newly generated that's why it was not available in other languages rather than English.
Shaunak joined MyGov in 2018 which is a citizen engagement platform launched by the Government of India on 26th July 2014 to promote the active participation of Indian citizens in their country's governance and development. He has contributed there on various issues which are important for nation-building and have participated in various other youth engagement activities such as quiz, discussion, talk, survey, etc. He achieved the Enthusiastic, Discoverer, and Influencer all-level badges. He was awarded the MyGov Champion badge and finally, he was awarded MyGov Changemaker which is the highest award of this platform in May 2022. Currently, he is having more than 200k points on this platform.