Tabling

November 1st, 2007 at 1:45 pm

A couple of us have been helping table in advance of the ONE Student | ONE Vote event here at U Penn today, and I am reminded how tabling can be rough times.

It’s hard to look someone in the eye, ask, “do you want to help fight extreme poverty?” and have them either mutter “no”, or just walk on by. It breaks my heart, but so it goes. Some people don’t realize just how desperate the crisis is, or how little it takes for them to make a difference.

But a fair number of people take a flyer, and a cheerful handful sign the ONE Declaration and ask for more information. And that is certainly worth the frustrations of asking strangers for a moment of their time.

Table on! It’s one of the first small steps to making a big difference.