Knock Their Socks Off

But some people find it very hard to view the world from Position 2.

Let’s say our Water for Life fundraiser knows the donor he’s meeting with struggles to be “inside” a situation in another person’s shoes. So he takes a slightly different approach: Position 3 or the outside observer.

“Sagita is 10 years old. Imagine you had a Webcam in her village and could watch her rise at 5 a.m. to walk three miles along a dusty track to the nearest pump in the next village. There you see her fill two five-gallon jerry cans with water. She balances one on her head and carries the other. You watch as she stops frequently to change hands as she walks back to her house. Imagine at the end of school you hear her tell her friend she’s too busy to play since she has to help her mother by collecting more water.