title: Rajinder Johar
text: # Rajinder Johar
  
  Rajinder Johar is an Indian philanthropist with quadriplegia who runs an NGO called Family of Disabled (FoD), which looks after the betterment of disabled persons in Delhi.
  
  ## Life
  
  As a result of a bullet injury in 1986 in an attempted robbery in his house, Johar was left paralyzed with limited mobility. After six years of depression, he decided to help disabled people become self-sufficient and thus founded the Family of Disabled. Johar's service of disabled people over two decades has won him several awards and accolades.
  
  ## Family of Disabled
  
  Family of Disabled (FOD) was founded in 1992 by Johar, who has been bedridden for the last 22 years. Based in New Delhi, FOD's mission is to build and nurture the capacities of persons with disabilities through different sustainable interventions for improving their quality of life, making them self-reliant and facilitating their mainstreaming.
  
  