Mumbai, March 24 (ANI): Being Human & Thums-Up’s awareness and fundraising campaign ‘Veer’ on “Unleashing the Inner Potential of Persons with Disabilities”, culminated its first leg with grandeur in the presence of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in India’s entertainment capital Mumbai. The campaign was kick started on January 26 and has been organized by Khan’s nongovernmental organization ‘Being Human’, soft drink brand Thums-Up, media news channel CNN IBN and American Indian Foundation. Khan said that the campaign aims to provide employment to maximum number of specially abled people. The campaign accomplished its first juncture and concluded with an event recalling the journey of the campaign. The purpose of the campaign was to raise awareness about the challenges faced by the specially abled people and also address them by providing them with education, employment, skill training and development, and pressed for specially abled technology. One of the organizers of the campaign Hemanth Paul hoped that the campaign gets bigger from what it is at present. The campaign accomplished contributions worth 7.5 million rupees in its first leg. Many celebrities also offered their support in unraveling the potential of especially abled people.
