KIDS REACT TO ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE
In August
I went to United States with my parents, a friend and her parents. When we were
looking for a place to have dinner in San Francisco we saw a man doing the Ice
Bucket Challenge. He was talking and two girls threw two buckets of water and
ice above his head. We were surprised because we have never heard about Ice
Bucket Challenge and ALS, and because the weather at night in San Francisco is
a bit cold.
A few days
later we saw in an American TV programme so many people doing the same thing
than that man in the street and we discovered this incredible and charitable
challenge.
Then when
we returned to Spain, almost everyone was doing it. To do it you must have been
nominated by someone, and when you do the video to share it on instagram or
facebook, you have to say for whom you have been nominated and the three people
you want to nominate. This challenge is accompanied by a donation that you have
to do if you accept it.
I think
that is a good project to raise money for a good reason, a minority disease
that doesn’t have any cure or treatment and that is lethal. Thanks to this
campaign, they have raised the amount of last year multiplied by twenty. In Spain, this association has raised 700.000
euros that is a good amount of money, but it is not comparable with the amount
that it has raised in United States, 88’ 5 million euros.
This initiative
started in United States and Spain decided to join in. Not only have they done it to raise money, they have also done it to make
people know this disease, the ALS.
Ice Bucket
Challenge started two years ago, when the college baseball player, Pete Frates,
was diagnosed with ALS. On August 7, in Boston's Copley Square 200 people went
there to throw an ice bucket above their head to raise money and let people
know of the existence of this disease that has no cure or treatment.
Paula Fornieles
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