A 33-year-old man, Kiran Verma, traveled over 6,000 kms on foot to spread awareness about blood donation. He started his journey from Srinagar and went through places like Udaipur, Vadodara, Chennai and Bengaluru. He is set to go to Kochi next, and then to Bhutan. He calls his current journey the ‘first phase’ of his initiative and said that it will conclude on January 14, 2019. His mission is to fulfill the entire blood request/ requirement by 2025 in India.