An IT entrepreneur takes the “ALS ice bucket challenge” in
Zhongguancun
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Friday. The ice bucket challenge, which requires either dumping a bucket of ice
water on one’s head or making a donation to the non-profit ALS Association, has
been viral on social media worldwide since July, 2014. Photos: Li Hao GT
The "Ice Bucket Challenge," a fundraising activity for a rare disease, has
helped raised over 5.5 million yuan ($894 Clearance
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night, despite concerns and protests from some, including the Ministry of Civil
Affairs (MCA), that it could become just entertainment or a vehicle for profit.
The Ice Bucket Challenge, aimed at raising awareness and donations for
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), has stormed the world's celebrities. It
landed in China on Monday when the China-Dolls Center for Rare Disorders (CCRD)
began to accept donations to help with rare diseases Men's
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celebrities and now from ordinary people.
Lei Jun, CEO and founder of Xiaomi, donated $100 to the US-based ALS
Association plus another 10,000 yuan to CCRD on August 18, making him the first
Chinese celebrity to take up the challenge.
Wang Sicong, son of real-estate tycoon Wang Jianlin cheap nike air max
90 ultra se , also donated 1 million yuan to the center, the
largest amount of donation so far.
Amid the nation's fervor on taking the challenge, the MCA urged CCRD on
Thursday to focus on the real effects of the activity and avoid turning the
charity into a means of entertainment or a way to do business.
Many also questioned if the activity should be encouraged in China where
several provinces were hit by severe drought this year. A group of local
residents turned empty buckets upside down over their heads on Friday at Lushan
county in Henan Province to protest the Ice Bucket Challenge.
ALS is an incurable disease that leads to the loss of voluntary movement,
slowly paralyzing patients. It has become a common term in recent days.
Over 22,000 people had donated through CCRD's online platform on Sina Weibo
as of press time, making the total donation within a week greater than the usual
total for a year.
"It is surprising to see such a large number of donations within such a short
time. We never expected it in the first place when Sina Weibo invited us to
launch online donations cheap nike air max
90 ultra 2.0 flyknit ," Sun Yue, a public education project
coordinator from CCRD, told the Global Times, adding that there is no clear plan
for the use of the funds yet.
The online platform is open to donations of at least 100 yuan. Donors could
also upload a video clip of their Ice Bucket Challenge on Sina Weibo and the
website will donate 5 yuan to CCRD. Those who are invited to the challenge but
don't participate are supposed, according to the "rules," to donate 100
yuan cheap
nike air vapormax black , or $100 overseas.
"I hope the ongoing Ice Bucket Challenge can turn into a long-term mechanism
that can be set up to help ALS patients, instead of a temporary spate
attention," Sun noted.
Meanwhile, some patients were worried whether the money would eventually
reach them. Wang Jia, an ALS patient told the Global Times via his
eye-controlled laptop that he felt angry. "The initial Ice Bucket Challenge was
targeting us, but the CCRC has no special projects for ALS. I prefer the money
collected to go to other foundations for us specifically."
The money will be shared among ALS patients and others suffering from other
rare diseases cheap
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(Source: Xinhua)
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he would concentrate to achieve the goal to break his own 200-meter world record
in 2014.
Bolt expressed his will during a visit to Tokyo's Olympic Stadium.
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Although Bolt collected three gold medals in the World Championships in
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The 27-year-old track star now keeps the current 200 world mark of
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Bolt, six-time Olympic gold-medal winner, was named IAAF male World Athlete
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Budapest on Sunday, ahead of the Red Bull duo of Daniil Kvyat and Daniel
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This was the German's 41st career win and his second win of the year. It was
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