FOD is a charitable trust founded in 1992 to serve the people with different disabilities. Launched with a single member, himself a person with quadriplegia (paralysis of all four limbs), today FOD is a family of more than thousand members.

FOD's Apna Rozgar programme, started in 1998 is an effort to economically rehabilitate disabled/differently abled persons. The programme offers them finance in kind to start or expand their own micro trades thereby enabling them to support themselves and their families. This facility has been extended to 180 individuals with a success rate of 80 percent. On an average these individuals have been earning three to seven thousand rupees per month. FOD also makes it a point to monitor these small ventures and provide help as and when required.

The organization encourages artists with disability through different programmes like holding exhibitions of their artwork, transforming their paintings into greeting cards and promoting them through different avenues. The members of FOD are invited to visit hospitals and institutions to provide psychological support to people going through the trauma of recently acquired disabilities.

Contact person: Preeti

B-1/500 Janakpuri New Delhi-110058

Phone: 25597328, 51570140

E-mail: fod@vsnl.net

Website: www.familyofdisabled.org