A Delhi-based social employee, Verma visited Dagdu Sheth Ganesh Mandal on Wednesday and informed The Indian Specific that his goal is to unfold consciousness about blood donation in order that no one ought to die ready for blood in India. “This stroll is to encourage folks, even on this robust time, to exit and donate blood in order that blood banks and hospitals don’t run dry on blood,” Verma, who began his stroll on December 28, 2021, mentioned.

Verma’s stroll is purportedly going to be the longest blood consciousness marketing campaign ever by a person as it’s going to take greater than two years. “On account of rising Covid circumstances, voluntary blood donation in India has gone down because the final 2 years,” he mentioned.

Verma is the founding father of non-profit Change With One Basis underneath which he runs two programmes, Merely Blood and Change With One Meal. In 2018, he travelled 16,000 km throughout India, masking greater than 6,000 km on foot, for a similar trigger.

Merely Blood is a digital blood donation platform, connecting blood donors and seekers in actual time, freed from value. It was launched on January 29, 2017 and until date has saved greater than 35,000 potential lives via blood donations.

To help Verma’s stroll, 48 blood donation camps have been organised in numerous components of the nation via which greater than 7,239 models of blood have been collected. Other than the camps, greater than 3,000 particular person blood donors have donated blood of their private capability at totally different blood banks throughout India and overseas to help this marketing campaign. A 3.5 km marathon was additionally organised in Varanasi the place greater than 100 folks participated.

Until now, Verma mentioned he has walked a number of districts throughout the nation, masking greater than 6,800 km. “The subsequent vacation spot after Pune will probably be Solapur and Latur,” he added.