Tuesday, September 9, 2014

The Bucket challenge Gaga!

After all the gaga over ALSIceBucketChallenge, people started with so many other bucket challenges which were nothing but just time pass over social media. I mean making donations should be personal and not made a publicity stunt. People who wouldn't even know what ALS was were simply taking this challenge and posting videos, just to fetch some likes/comments on social media?

If you want to really make difference, it can be done without making a big deal of it. Even if you want to make a big deal and show people what you do, make some real donations. Someone sensible started this #RiceBucketChallenge in India and it was quite a good idea but what was the outcome? Many likes on social media but fewer actual donations. This is like those pictures circulating on Facebook, like this picture to help the needy.

If you really care, look what your country needs from you; help those. Just look!! There are kids on street that doesn't have good sanitation/drinking water/Food. There are old aged people who have no homes. There are diseases like Cancer, tuberculosis which is killing people in India. I'm sure you can think of many such, help and support these if you really care. If you want to make a difference to the society, start from your own neighborhood. It makes sense for Americans to take up that challenge as they ALSBucketChallenge is raising money for about 30,000 people suffering from ALS in the USA. Do you think your country isn't having any big problems? 

These are just my thoughts, no offense to anyone who took up this challenge, it might be for fun or to fetch some likes or you might have really donated and made some difference.

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