6 Reasons You Must Take the Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice bucket challenge is the recent craze that is sweeping the nation and is fast spreading to the rest of the world. It is a challenge that was created to raise finds and awareness about ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease where the patient loses the functions in his or her muscles gradually and ends up paralyzed and dead in a few years. The recent ice bucket challenge with its celebrity endorsement has brought about awareness about ALS and is instrumental in raising a lot of funds for the research about the disease. Here are a few reasons as to why you must take the Ice bucket challenge.
1. It helps raise awareness about the disease
Truth be told, not many people knew about the disease or the alarming statistics of the number of people suffering from the disease before the ice bucket challenge. You take up this challenge because you had either seen people doing it or you had read about it. You must do it because you taking up of the challenge and nominating would bring in other people to take it up and donate funds to the ALS organization.
2. The ice bucket challenge is fun and pretty challenging
Even if you are not pretty serious about spreading word about the disease, the ice bucket challenge is at least a lot of fun to do. You can do it and even nominate others to take up the challenge. Take up the challenge even if you cannot donate large sums of money to the ALS foundation.
3. It helps others to donate money to the foundation
When you nominate a person for the ice bucket challenge you are not just bringing them into the challenge or making them douse themselves in ice filled water, you are also playing a vital role in raising money for the disease. It is very important that there be funds for the research and development about this disease as there is no cure currently.
