Ford

After the earthquake of October 8, 2005, Forum of Rehabilitation of Disabled (FORD) was founded by Aqeel Haider Banday who was one of the victims of spinal cord injury, with an objective of providing integrated services in the entire spectrum of development for the uplift of the quality of the life of the persons with limited physical and functional mobility. FORD is a volunteer and not for profit making organization. In the continuity of volunteer services after the earthquake, in the relief phase of disaster management and medical treatment of spinal cord patients at National Institute of Handicapped (NIHd) now National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (NIRM), Islamabad and Armed Forced Institute of Rehabilitation & Medicine (AFIRM), the group of Spinal Cord Injured Patients (SCIPs) made a caucus of persons living with same style. These sufferers masses to be cared for physical complications like bed sores, contractures, UTI etc. to normal life with poverty eradication. FORD is a volunteer and not for profit making organization. The group of persons departed after rehabilitation from the institutes but developed an idea to unite under an organizational umbrella. In the continuity of volunteer services in the relief phase of disaster management, the organization was registered in the year 2010 with Azad Jammu & Kashmir Council Secretariat under VSWA Ordinance, 1961 of Pakistan and VSWA Act, 1982.