<span style="color: #222222;">In these distressing times of Coronavirus pandemic, a small ray of hope is all a person may require to believe that the worst will soon be over and normalcy will return.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">A sports teacher from Maharashtra’s Palghar district, Kiran Thorat brings such hope by helping patients seeking blood or plasma donations. In the last one year, when people feared moving out of their homes during lockdown, Mr. Throat arranged 16 blood donation camps.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">The sports teacher at Palghar’s Sonopant Dandekar College not just managed to arrange 300 units of blood for those in need but also plasma for 800 COVID patients.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Throat’s dedication and zeal to save lives has helped people not just from Mumbai and its neighbourhood but also from Pune, Marathwada and even Madhya Pradesh. Salute to his efforts and pray more and more people are inspired to follow in his footsteps.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br />” &nbsp;<br />