Can a internet bring awareness to a serious cause? Lemons for leukaemia, much like the ALS ice bucket challenge, Lemons for leukaemia is internet trend that focuses on donating or spreading awarness to causes that help people with blood and/or bone marrow cancers or diseases.
Began in america and its slowly spreading its way to the UK, the lemons for leukaemia challenge was created by the two best friends attempting to set a world record for the most donors added to the national bone marrow registry within a 24-hour period- this was successful. Lemons for leukaemia was trending and people started to donate to charites icluding celebrites like Danny Devito.
In the UK, every 14 minutes someone is diagnosed with leukaemia as it is one of the common cancers. Lemons for leukaemia has been trending this month with people reccording themeselve eating lemons and ecouraging fellow peers to donate money or even donate blood or bone marrow.
Youtube channels like ‘akilah obviously’ has uploaded a video with 8.3K views on lemons for leukaemia promoting this campaign and spreading blood cancer awareness. There are over 130 different types of blood cancer the improvements in research has allowed 90% of diagnosd children with the most common form of childhood leukaemia survive.
