Dumping a bucket of water on your head…

Actually it’s not a novelty to answer a challenge by either paying $100 or dumping a bucketful of water on your head. In addition, it is not even related to ALS.

Initially, some American sportsmen started this tradition with an ice bucket. When the 29-year-old baseball player Pete Frates was diagnosed with ALS in 2012, he turned this ice tradition into an awareness campaign.

The campaign rapidly spread this summer. I guess the participation of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, to the challenge had a worldwide effect. It quickly became a trend in Turkey, even my 11-year-old son asked for my permission before tipping a bucketful of ice on his head. But we are facing a magazine event. The challenge is done as if it’s for fun, everyone challenges people they want and share their videos, etc… I had not seen any information on where to donate to ALS until Mehmet Yılmaz’s article. (The readers who want to donate Money to ALS can use TR 320001001672113640835001 IBAN number to donate money.) ALS, on the other hand, is not a disease that should be mocked. Another term for ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is Lou Gehrig’s disease. Born in 1903, Gehrig, an important baseball player, was diagnosed with the disease in 1938 when he was 35-years-old and died in 1941. The disease has been known by his name since then, but one of the most famous people who are currently suffering from ALS is Stephen Hawking. Suna Kıraç, the shareholder and CEO of Koç holding and a prominent figure in Turkey, also suffers from ALS. (Mao Zedong also died from ALS.)

I do not know how much money the ALS foundation in Turkey has been able to gather through this ice bucket...