Chancellor Angela Merkel holds still covered to the hype around the “Ice Bucket Challenge”. Asked whether Merkel will donate for the Internet-ice action in favor of the nerve disease ALS, said her spokesman Steffen Seibert on Thursday on Twitter: “I ask for your understanding that we generally do not report it, whom the Chancellor personally donate money. “So they Waived on the ice bucket?
Bill Gates, Lady Gaga and Ex-President George W. Bush
In the action, the participants either shower with a bucket of ice water or donate. The two go well. Many celebrities, including Bill Gates, Lady Gaga and even former President George W. Bush made already at the “Ice Bucket Challenge” with.
Some annoying it, but the hype on the Internet continues showers with ice water. The “Ice Bucket Challenge” brings donations attention for a rare disease and headlines for celebrities. How does the Chancellor, as a concerned?
From Helene Fischer to George W. Bush: Ice water and no end
Helene Fischer (30) makes it in BH, George W. Bush (68) with humor. The list of celebrities who take a shower for a good cause with a bucket of water, grows and grows. A holds at the fundraiser rather covered: Angela Merkel. “I ask for your understanding that we generally do not report as to who the Chancellor personally donate money,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert wrote on Thursday on Twitter.
co-inventor the “Ice Bucket Challenge” dies in swimming accident
From the USA came the sad news. One of the pioneers of the Internet action on nerve disease ALS died, according to U.S. media in a swimming accident. Fundraiser Corey Griffin (27) jumped accordingly weekend at the port of Nantucket (Massachusetts) into the water and drowned. His friend Pete Frates, an ALS patient, is a flagship of the action. Here, the people pour with either ice water or donate. You can do both. Before the participants take a shower, they nominate three candidates to participate.
Prominent does not need to be in the “Ice Bucket Challenge”, but of course it helps when the clicks on the Internet. Footballer Marco Reus had challenged Helene Fischer. The pop singer, favorite of the national team, presented by exercising the “Challenge”, which earned her a place on the front pages and hundreds of thousands of “Likes” -Daumen on Facebook.
action has been spreading rapidly weeks
Whether Lady Gaga or Bill Gates: The action has been spreading rapidly weeks. In Germany celebs like Matthias Schweighofer and Natasha Ochsenknecht made with. “Image” editor in chief Kai Diekmann challenged ex-President Christian Wulff. Barack Obama also was already tuned. He came around a shower. The White House announced a donation of U.S. President, as one of the Kennedys had nominated him.
The point is to raise money to fight ALS
Ex-US President George W. Bush took it with a Texas joke. “I do not think it is präsidiabel for me to be doused with ice water, so I just write you a check,” he says in the video. Then his wife, Laura, he missed a load of water. As a candidate Bush brought his predecessor, “my friend Bill Clinton”, to the game.
Aside from funny videos – what is it all about? ALS, known in the United States as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a rare and fatal disease. It leads to nerve damage and muscle paralysis. The painter Jörg Immendorff died of it. Physicist Stephen Hawking lives thanks to an artificial ventilator for decades with ALS. The disease, according to experts, although not curable, but to treat, with the patient must be prepared to be included in the paralyzed body.
So far were 23.8 million euro donation together
The “Ice Bucket Challenge” splits. Some are annoyed by the many videos on the net and see it as a joke, which is more about the show than the matter. But the effect is enormous, according to the American ALS organization: In a few weeks, $ 31.5 million came (23.8 million euros) donation together – in the same period last year was 1.9 million dollars. The ALS clinic at the Berlin Charité already benefited from it.
And how does a person concerned? The Leipzig ALS patient Yvonne Weindel the action is nice. “That’s a smart thing, because you might as well meet the people, otherwise interest a shit for the” said the 41-year-old. It is for them just once not for pity and dismay. “It’s just sometimes funny. Too, in my life there are a lot of witty.”
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