Cyclist Sandesh going for world tour to raise awareness on importance of blood donation

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, May 14: A Nepali cyclist has aimed at world cycle tour to raise awareness on importance of blood donation.

Sandesh Subedi of Parbat district completed his Nepal tour recently cycling from East to West while organizing blood donation campaigns in the communities where he stopped for rest.

"It has been two years since I started cycling to raise awareness on blood donation. And recently I cycled from East to West in my country. I feel immense pleasure in both cycling and in being instrumental in instilling importance of blood donation in people," said Subedi.

During his East-West (Mechi-Mahakali) cycling tour Subedi organized blood donation campaign in different places and collected some 570 units of blood.

A lifelong member of Nepal Red Cross Society and Nepal Voluntary Blood Donors' Society, cyclist Subedi got inspired from another Nepali world cyclist Ajit Baral for world tour.

The reason for Subedi to have special attachment with spreading the importance of blood donation is related to his personal and tragic incident.

"I was a small kid studying in grade 6 when my mother's operation of brain tumor was conducted. My father told me then that he had faced difficulties to manage blood for my mother's operation. This incident and the difficulty in getting life-saving blood got imprinted in my mind," shared Subedi.

Subedi's mother passed away after some years following the surgery. His feeling about the difficulty in getting blood during surgery stayed on, stimulating him to do something for this humane cause.

I think I can do two things at the same time while cycling around the world, first, my cling will make my country, Nepal, further known around the globe, and second, I will also be raising public awareness on the importance of blood donation, said Subedi, a permanent resident of Pipaltari, Kushma Municipality-10 in Parbat.

Subedi said he will be accompanied by two other cyclists, Suresh Acharya and Arjun Subedi, in the world cycle tour to begin soon with the themes - Donate Blood Save Life, Save the Environment to save World, Awareness against Drug Addiction.