TMB Report
Imphal: Kiran Verma, a Delhi-based social worker who started a 21,000 km walk spreading awareness on blood donation across the country from Thiruvananthapuram on December 28, 2021 has reached Imphal on December 6.
This walk is going to be the “longest blood awareness campaign ever by an individual in the world” which will run for more than 2 years.
The mission for the walk is to spread awareness about blood donation among people so that “nobody should die waiting for blood in India after December 31, 2025”.
Due to COVID-19, voluntary blood donation in India has gone significantly down since the last three years.
This walk is to encourage around 5 million new blood donors to donate blood, so that blood banks and hospitals don’t run dry on blood.
Till now Kiran Verma has walked across Trivandrum, Kollam, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Mahe, Kannur, Kasaragod, Mangaluru, Udupi, Bangalore, Ramanagara, Mandya, Mysore, Chamarajanagar, Nilgiris, Coimbatore, Trippur, Dindigul, Madurai, Virudhunagar, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Rameswaram, Sivaganga, Pudukottai, Trichy, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Karaikal, Cuddalore, Puducherry, Villupuram, Chengalpattu, Chennai, Tiruvallur, Kanchipuram, Ranipet, Vellore, Tirupattur, Krishnagiri, Bengaluru Rural, Tumakuru, Hassan, Chikkamagalor, Shimoga, Karwar, South Goa, North Goa, Belagavi, Kolhapur, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Palghar, Silvassa, Daman, Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Bharuch, Baroda, Anand, Nadiad, Ahmedabad, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Botad, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Diu, Gir Somnath, Junagad, Porbandar, Dwarka, Jamnagar, Morbi, Kutch, Narmada, Nandurbar, Dhule, Jalgao, Buldhana, Akola, Amravati, Nagpur, Wardha, Yavatmal, Nanded, Hingoli, Parbhani, Jalna, Aurangabad, Nashik, Ahmednagar, Pune, Solapur, Kalaburgi, Vikarabad, Ranga Reddy, Sangareddy, Medchal, Medak, Kamareddy, Nizamabad, Adilabad, Nirmal, Komaram Bheem, Asifabad, Mancherial, Peddapalli, Karimnagar, Hanumakonda, Warangal, Mahabubabad, Suryapet, Nalgonda, Nagarkunool, Wanaparthy, Kurnool, Nandyal, Anantapur, Sri Sathya Sai, Rayachoti, Kadapa, Tirupati, Nellore, Prakasham, Bapatla, Guntur, Vijayawada, Krishna, Eluru, West Godavari, East Godavari, Yanam, Kakinada, Anakapalli, Visakhapatanam, Srikakulam, Ganjam, Puri, Khordha, Cuttack, Nayagarh, Gajapati, Rayagada, Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangapur, Kalahandi, Balangir, Kandhmal, Bodh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Baleshwar, Purba Medinipur, Paschim Medinipur, Howrah, Kolkata, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, Hooghly, Nadia, Purba Bardhaman, Paschim Bardhaman, Asansol, Purulia, Birbhum, Murshidabad, Malda, Dakshin Dinajpur, Uttar Dinajpur, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Alipurduar, Kokrajhar, Chirang, Bongaigaon, Goalpara, West Garo Hills, East Garo Hills, West Khasi Hills, East Khasi Hills, Ri Bhoi, Guwahati, Morigaon, Nagaon, Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Tezu, Namsai, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, Lower Subansiri, Kamle, Upper Subansiri, West Siang, Shi-Yomi, East Siang, Longding, East Karbi Anglong, Dimapur, Chumoukedima, Niuland, Tseminyu, Wokha, Mokokchung, Longleng, Mon, Tuensang, Zunheboto and Kohima covering more than 17,800 km through 230 districts across 18 States/UTs.
On April 9, Kiran Verma was also invited on the Kapil Sharma Show. On June 19, Kiran Verma crossed three nations – Bangladesh, India and Nepal in a single day on foot through Siliguri corridor. Probably a unique record made by any Indian.
In support of his endeavour, 126-blood donation camps have been organised in different part of the country through which more than 26,722 units of blood has been collected.
Apart from the camps, more than 9000 individual blood donors have donated blood in their personal capacity in different blood banks across India and abroad to support this campaign.
On September 15, 2022, Kiran Verma inaugurated a blood bank in Hyderabad in the name of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao built by the deceased PM’s family members.
Also a 3.5 km Marathon was also organised in Varanasi wherein more than 100 people participated.
His next destination after Imphal will be Mizoram, Tripura and other parts of the Northeast.
It may be mentioned that Kiran Verma founded “Change With One Foundation” under which he runs two programs Simply Blood and Change With One Meal.
In 2018, Kiran Verma also traveled 16,000 kms across India covering more than 6,000 kms on foot only for the same cause.
