Wearing a white T-shirt and with the national flag over his shoulders, 33-year-old Kiran Verma from New Delhi is working towards creating awareness among people about the importance of blood donation.Kiran’s approach to realise his dream is as much adventurous as arduous. On January 26, Kiran started off from Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir with a motive to walk across India and reach New Delhi by June 14 so that he can participate in a convention to mark the World Blood Donors Day.
As part of his all-India tour, Kiran, a Class X dropout, reached Vijayawada on Monday from Tirupati where he talked to people from different walks of life about the essence of blood donation and how big a difference it could make for a patient.
“The idea of my journey is to sensitise people, which is my way to give back to the society by encouraging others to donate blood. My target is to meet 10 people in each lap of 15 km of my walks,” he says. Kiran lost his mother to cancer at the age of seven. He donated blood for the first time to his teacher who was suffering from kidney ailments and has donated 40 times since.
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