One Bucket of Life
ONE BUCKET OF LIFE “Thanks for nominating me for the ice bucket challenge! I further nominate XVZ for the same!!” “NO.” My social networking pages have been going crazy with people uploading videos of dumping cold water/ice on themselves for the past weeks. Not knowing why so many people would put cold water on themselves, i did what any of us would do, I Googled it. The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is the activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on someone's head to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and encourage donations to research. As i read more about the challenge I realized two things. One, ALS is a horrible, painful and expensive disease which makes the person suffering from it questions his reason for existing. Secondly, in a country like India, where women in villages trace many kilometres to get drinking water, is it justified to dump buckets of water over ou