Bina Sheth Lashkari

Bina Sheth Lashkari is an Indian Doorstep school founder in India. Over 30 years she has helped to organise the education of 100,000 children in Mumbai. In 2013 she was awarded the Stree Shakti Puraskar.

Life Laskari took her first degree in child psychology.

She started her work when she founded her first school in Cuffe Parade in Colaba in 1988. At the time children from the slums could only look on as richer children went off to posh schools. She originally had 25 children and their Banjara parents were working for low wages gutting fish.

In 2016 the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited her in Mumbai. That year the school's campaign had led to the naming of streets after their pupils. Previously unnamed streets in three areas of Mumbai were named after their students. The objective is to inspire other students to gain an education and have ambition.

In 2019 it was estimated that over the 31 years she has helped to organise the education of 100,000 children in Mumbai. By that time the school had seven yellow school buses with school equipment inside them. Each of them stops four times each day for two and a half hours, so each bus is teaching 100 children each day.