Do contacts and activists need help?
Absolutely! We all feel constrained by what we may think of as a skill we do not possess. If only we could do that extra thing we would be so much more effective in promoting the cause! Well, there will be another contact who has the completely opposite skill set to you. We need to be working more closely together. One of you may be a dab hand at writing press releases, but the idea of organising a veggie social do fills the other with the heebie-jeebi es. In that case, don’t organise veggie meals out – leave that to someone else, but smarten up or even draft another contact’s press releases. The Internet is a wonderful help for working together across a wide area, and ActiVeg aims to make the most of this. Some activists and groups have more familiarity and better access to the Internet than others. They can help show others how simple and useful it can be, with practical advice, and even training sessions. We also all need moral support from time to time, someone to share our experie
