THE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE
It was few months ago when I started to see some videos about this phenomenon in The USA. As the video of “Kids React” says, it consists of throwing to yourself a bucket full of cold water and ice so, once it is all over you, you can feel how people with the ALS disease live.
It makes you feel as if you were paralyzed, not even capable to make a step forward. The point is to increase people’s interest on this incurable disease so everybody is aware of what it comes with it: the money you need to adapt a house, the amount of time you need to dedicate to the affected person, the shock due to the strong changes in someone’s life... The creators of this “challenge” wanted to raise the donations to charities and to labs that are trying to find any kind of solution or help.
Adventurous people who have dared to do this experience should make a contribution to any of those organizations that help families with ALS or to any group of researchers that are dealing with a cure.
Personally, I’ve seen many videos of people covering themselves with cold water; however, I’ve seen really few of them posting the message of their contribution to those charities. That’s because most of the people have done it, but not everyone has donated a single euro. Actually, it came out on the news few weeks ago that, in the USA, less than half of the people who have tried this challenge have contributed on the research. What I mean is that, everybody can be brave for a short-10 second video and a post on “Instagram” but the thing is that not all of them are making an effort to help those families.
To sum up with, I’m not saying it’s been a bad idea cause even if people haven’t donated any money, it’s been a huge movement to support people who are dealing with this disease, and now we all are more aware of what it means and what it takes to suffer it. So, at least, this new trend has ended up being a really positive thing.
María Bayona Visiedo
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