User talk:Dkfordignity

Dharmendra Kumar is a social activist. His activism started while he was a class XIth student at the Patna University, Patna, Bihar, India. He founded 'Chintanshil Chatra-Yuva Manch', a broad mass based organization of students and youths, to make them understand the relevance of world around them and to empower them to be relevant for the change. In 1991, he moved to Delhi and joined the prestigious St. Stephens' college for his graduation. His jeal for change and mass actions continued. After his graduation, he became a student of Journalism at Delhi University and headed All India Students' Association (AISA). He began his profesional career as a Chief Coordinator at Deshkal, a Non-Governmental Organization based in Delhi and working on projects on the Musahar Community, poorest of the poor, of Gaya, Bihar. Here, he was associated with various projects supported by organizations like Ford Foundation, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of Bihar etc. In 2007, he joined Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) as Director of India FDI Watch. ACORN, the largest organization of lower income and working families in the United States, with 225,000 dues-paying families spread across more than hundred staffed offices in American cities. The ACORN family of organizations includes radio stations (KNON and KABF), publications, housing development and ownership (ACORN Housing), and a variety of other supports for direct organizing and issue campaigns, such as Project Vote and the Living Wage Resource Center. ACORN International has recently opened staffed offices in Lima, Peru, and Toronto and Vancouver, Canada and India. Several Indian offices are slated to open in 2008.

Dharmendra Kumar is also founder and Secretary of Janpahal and is on board of governing body of many non profit organizations.

He lives in New Delhi with his wife Mrs Bhawna Sharma and fie years young son mr Aryan Sharma