De Lima accepts ice bucket challenge | Inquirer News

De Lima accepts ice bucket challenge

/ 06:48 PM August 25, 2014

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Justice Secretary Leila De Lima. RYAN LEAGOGO/INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines— Now it’s Justice Secretary Leila De Lima’s turn to do it.

 De Lima on Monday said she has accepted the ice bucket challenge.

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“Yes, I already accepted it for a worthy cause. How I love challenges,” De Lima said in a text message.

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She said she will do the challenge on Tuesday, adding: “Iniisip ko pa who to challenge.”

The ice bucket challenge is the latest craze on social media where a number of celebrities and athletes have buckets of ice and ice-cold water dumped on them while tagging others to do the same.

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The “Ice Bucket Challenge” is a fundraiser that aims to raise awareness on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),.

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According to the ALS Association in America, ALS “is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to (the patient’s) death.”

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