Inspiring people to donate blood and save lives, a New Delhi-based youth Kiran Verma walking across the country was in the city on Wednesday.
He was coming from Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal and was on way to Odisha capital Bhubaneswar.
Kiran started his journey on foot on January 26, 2018 from lal Chowk, Srinagar, and has covered more than half of his 15,000 kilometers target.
He till now had covered entire North except Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, entire West, Entire South and was now on way to East and North Eastern parts of the country.
From Raipur, the youth on Wednesday evening proceeded for Odisha capital Bhubaneswar. The countrywide tour of him would be concluded in Delhi on June 14, 2018 on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day.
Talking to The Pioneer Kiran said he was motivated to do this for a noble cause after a child ‘Mayank’, who was known to him, died in absence of blood during the need. “I left my cushy job of Marketing Executive in national capital and have pledged to make people aware of donating blood and saving lives. I formed a blood donation platform ‘Simply Blood’ and it is working across the globe”, he said.
Talking about self, Kiran said he himself have donated blood more than 40 times starting from the age of 18.
“I had not received any financial help from any one and family and friends of mine are helping me in my mission”, he said.
Talking about his tour, Kiran said he had a mission of encouraging at least 10 people per kilometer and thus in his 15,000 kilometer journey to donate blood and he had set a target of saving at least 1, 50,000 lives by inspiring people to donate blood”. Citing figures, Kiran said nearly 12,000 people die in our country due to lack of blood. My motive is to stop these deaths by simply inspiring the people to donate blood to the persons in need.
Talking about his platform ‘Simply Blood’, Kiran informed that it had saved 2000 potential lives in 11 countries all over the world in past one year. There is a mobile application of my platform ‘Simply Blood’ and I am dedicated to make it popular and save more and more lives, he said.