Kiran Verma realized every minutest drop of blood is precious

Kiran Verma’s story and his mission have some extra miles to them. Let us take a glance at his inspiring journey. Among her various efforts to create and boost awareness about blood donation, the Simply blood App is an initiative by Kiran Verma to save many lives. The entire idea to establish “Simply Blood,” an online blood donation platform, came into being when Doctors diagnosed Kiran’s mother with cancer, and she died of it.  Then he understood the real importance of blood donation.

Kiran Verma

Kiran (33yrs), who is a social entrepreneur based in Delhi, kicked off his journey to promote and spread awareness about the importance of blood donation and how can it contribute to saving the common man’s life. This journey would take him across India, starting from Srinagar to Thiruvananthapuram, traveling almost 15000kms. He started from the extreme north to the west, and now from west to southwest. Till now, he has covered virtually 6000kms, out of which he has traveled 2600kms walking and the rest 3400kms by different modes of transport. Throughout his journey, he has been in touch with the media. And has given loads of stories about the people he has met and all the other updates on his journey.

“Simply Blood” is an App readily available on the play store. It is an initiative by change with One Foundation making it the world’s first virtual blood donation platform. It helps up to encourage India, Nepal, and Bhutan for blood donation. This entire journey and the walk is named, Change with One Walk, by Kiran himself.

Mission and Vision

Mr. Verma started his journey on the 26th of January 2018 from Lal Chowk, Srinagar. He has visited various states as Jammu Kashmir, Rajasthan, Karnataka, and Kerala to spread awareness about Simply Blood, which allows needers to connect to the Blood donors online and nearby. Kiran had a mission of influencing at least ten people every kilometer to donate blood, which would save so many lives. In his journey till now, he has met approximately 600,000 people.

He has shared his vision with people in colleges, universities at schools. He has also discussed it in public places like bus stands, stations, malls, and restaurants. His mission to save a million potential lives until 2020 seems promising. And even national borders are no hindrance as he has successfully traveled to Bhutan and Nepal.

Background

Kiran started donating Blood since he was 18 yrs. old, after the death of his mother. Doctors diagnosed his mother with cancer, and that became the reason for her death. It was a life-changing moment for him, as he decided to donate blood. Since then, he has donated blood almost 41 times. The very first time when he donated blood, it was a donation to his teacher but to score more marks. Later, when the teacher’s son thanked him for his actions, he realized that he had done some good to them unknowingly and recalled how he is attached to his mother.

Then in 2016, he went all the way to donate blood to a family in Raipur. Later he found out that the person he trusted and donated blood was just an agent who charged approx. 1500 per unit for the blood Kiran donated. He felt cheated and decided to establish Simply blood (2017), which could help quickly trace the donors nearby. No life is lost due to the unavailability of blood, without any agents making money out of this precious drop.

Some Facts about this precious red drop

• Our country, India needs approximately 3800 units of blood every day. According to the National Aids Control Society, 12000 people on an average die due to the unavailability of blood.
• You can not make Blood. Hence we need to spread maximum awareness to generate more donors. Simply blood has helped around 2000 times in donating blood to 11 countries.

N/core, in partnership with Cisco, has selected the top eight programs that work on a non-profit basis and for the social cause using technology. There were around 713 applications; all these applicants were from diverse fields like education, health, employment, financial, human rights, water, and many others. N/core selected Change with One Foundation as one of those eight top applicants for a 6-month incubation program.

Simply Blood helps patients in finding donors in their nearest possible reach as they hold an entire database of the donors in this populated country at no cost at all. It has a membership of around 40,000 registered donors with more than 200,000 databases of other donors across the world. The process Kiran’s APP is following saves a lot of time, which in return helps in saving lives. The donors or the patient’s side does not waste time on calling. The app directs the donors directly to the place required. No misuse of blood or any personal information is shared or revealed with this process. Hence, making it a safe and trusted platform. As the app let them exchange the numbers, only once the donor agrees to donate, and only two parties share the number, no third person involved is there.

“Change in One walk” is an initiative by Kiran Verma, who has organized this entire journey from his savings. And a lot of friends and relatives are also helping him through this. His wife, Jayati, the only bread-weaner of the family, is taking care of the family.

This journey is just the beginning, says Kiran. We are near to the successful closure of our first phase, which will conclude on the 14th of January 2019. “I won’t stop and will start the next phase again,” says Kiran Verma.

Kiran could have cribbed about his loss of the mother!  He could have also led to his healthy life like all of us do. But he took the pain of walking several kilometres alone just to spread awareness. His mission is pure like the blood; let’s contribute to his mission. He chooses to walk and meet people physically for spreading his message of blood donation instead of on Social media platforms. We should equally applaud his wife Jayati and his relatives, who have supported him to spread awareness. A noble and social cause!

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