Ms. Farida Lambay is an educator and social activist with 25+ years of experience in the field of women’s and children’s rights. She was Vice Principal of Nirmala Niketan
School of Social Work when she initiated the Municipal School Project, which led to a cadre of social workers becoming instituted within the Mumbai Municipal Corporation structure, and spearheaded initiatives like YUVA (Youth for Voluntary Action) and Prerana (a project for sex workers’ rights in Mumbai). In 1994, she co- founded Pratham with Dr. Madhav Chavan, which aims to transform the educational landscape for children in India. In 2015, she received the Indira Gandhi Memorial Award. She has served on the Maharashtra State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights and currently serves on the GOI Committee on Child Labour & Research in Education.