The effect of a snowflake

Yet again, snow has fallen in London. I may not be that excited about it. Maybe it’s because it lengthened my journey home at Christmas from a one hour flight to a twenty hour escapade, including an overnight stay in Birmingham Airport. That aside, as I delicately tried to manoeuvre my way along the sludge-caked pavement, draped in four layers of clothing, I had a recollection of something i’d heard someone mention once...

One snowflake on its own rests for less than a second then melts into the pavement unnoticed. Yet a group of snowflakes can make such an impression that traffic can be stopped, trains delayed, airports shut, and by the end of the day leaves people with at least two new photo albums to load onto their Facebook pages.

And here lies the ethos of the Faiths Act movement – if we campaign apart we may or may not be noticed, but if we come together in one mass movement and make a big noise about all those suffering from malaria, it’ll be hard for people to ignore us.

Snow may get on my nerves, but it does make a good point.

Nicola Minford, Faiths Act Fellow