Does one person really matter?….
Can one person change the world?
We asked hundreds of
people…
“Why don’t you step up to try
to make things better…
in your community…,
in your work place…,
in the world?”
People said,
...because…it won’t
matter if I step up, I am
only one person.
But what if… one person
DOES matter?
What if ….instead of
saying “Why me?”
…We asked “Why not
me?”
History is filled with
people who
stepped up….
A young woman with few credentials,
….and no money,
….asked for
permission to
start an order,
…to help the sick and dying…
She won the Nobel Prize.
Travis & David were two normal high school students.
One day, a kid was bullied for wearing a pink shirt.
When they heard about it…
they asked their fellow students to wear pink the next day.
Almost every student did.
….today there are pink
shirt days in 20
countries.
Three women met a
poor woman in
Uganda…
working for a dollar a
day in a rock quarry.
She sold them some
jewelry that she made
with recycled paper….
They came home and started holding bead parties….
Now thousands of women have started
businesses in Africa. Because three women…
with no business experience said…
“Why not us?”
Whales were being hunted to extinction….
then a group of journalists and activists
confronted the whaling fleet….
in the middle of the ocean….
In rubber zodiacs…pretty naïve right?
...they took pictures that were seen around the world.
...it led to a worldwide ban on whaling.
Stepping Up….does not
have to be something
big.
It can be picking up a
piece of garbage.
…taking time to talk to
a lonely person,
…riding your bike
instead of your car,
….holding a bake sale
for a cause
Because….Every time someone steps up…
And decides to have their voice heard…
And chooses to believe…
that things can be better.
They create a ripple…
And the ripple can become…
…A tidal wave.
Why not you?….
Until you try…
you won’t ever know…
how powerful…
You really are.
Hear the stories of ordinary people…
Just like you…
Who are changing the world…
Right now.
Tell us how you or someone else… has stepped up….
www.steppingupforchange