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-What does the Local Guides program mean to me?
For me, Local Guides is an effective way to change the color of our world. Aside from making easy friends with whom we share the same goals of helping thousands of people make good decisions, Local Guides is also a way for everyone to help improve and to change the color of the world with multiple forms of contributions that help these thousands of Google Maps users to orient their decisions correctly.
There is nothing we can do if we stay in a dark world, where there is no color, where no one can move to reach another person easily, because they are all in a shadow. And it is the great Local Guides community which comes to help bring people out of this darkness, in these shadows … thanks to their contributions on Google Maps, to their sharing of experiences, sharing of knowledge, sharing of cultural and many others … everyone finds a light in this world and therefore a good orientation through Google Maps.
Since I discovered this great community and finally understood the true meaning of their contributions, this community has had a visible impact on my whole life, even in my decision-making. With Local Guides, we have the possibility to change the color of the world around us because, as this community is quite global, you make good friends, you compete with a world that is not usual for you, you have a possibility to increase your knowledge almost on all levels because, you have friends from the Four corners of the world which helps you to change your vision on what surrounds you and easily you help each other to change the color of this world. This is what I like in the community.
This large community has made it so that personally, I have developed a good sense of the tourist adventure that I have had since childhood (by the way) but already with Local Guides, things have changed, I do not visit more simply a place, I no longer explore to take photos only, but I now visit to guide others, I would like to arrive in an unknown place first to help others who will come after me to discover the information that will allow them to guide their decision-making. We all love to discover new places, explore them for multiple reasons but sometimes the financial means block us, I remember having accepted independent contracts to go to work outside the city, most of the time it was at a pay nothing, but just like it was to go to Villages where I had never set foot … I could never refuse, because behind these contracts I knew that I was going to help small and large local businesses to develop and make themselves known worldwide by adding their location on Google Maps, their photos …
I had passed in a village where there was a bigger Hospital (FSKI hospital) with an exceptional view of nature and it was my first to arrive in this village (in WALUNGU, East of DRC) two years before I became Local Guides. One day, I was offered a service to make free there, being Local Guides I inquire on Maps but I realize that the places of this village are almost unknown on Maps, I quickly agreed to me Go there and I assure you my first stop was to add this Hospital on Google Maps, I made three days of modifications in this village and I went from level 4 to level 5.
It was very important for me to become Local Guides, because I learned to leave unforgettable traces with my contributions on Maps, and as long as they can help two or three people to guide their decision-making, I tell myself that we let’s all help to change the perception of this world because things get easier when we have a person who guides us before acting and there we say that our world is getting better because we no longer need to provide a lot of 'effort to accomplish something so we have a guides who previously provided us with clarifications.
Apart from contributing to the change of the color of this world through our photos, videos, reviews and others… Local Guides also means a family for me, a friendship and when we are together with friends, there is no two fun things that happen that measure strength. And in this wonderful community, family, team… LG we respect friendly competition, and with these summary Mails providing us with exciting information related to our evolution in contributions… it has become an effective way to boost us in the adventure and never give up to always keep going (we like this).
I always liked challenges and with LG it became a part of our life by comparing our figures with our friends we always want to do more to be ahead, and in my #TeamDRC, in my city we call it “THE WAR OF NUMBERS”, as soon as the Mails fall, and direct we start the war to encourage us mutually, of course by seeking to become the top of top. But also, apart from the numbers, there are many challenges between the Local Guides, and the challenge that I really liked was the LOGO CHALLENGE, that I will never forget, it was my biggest achievement of the year 2019 as LG and I really thank the initiators of this Challenge (See here).
We earn points by our contributions, we get thousands of views on our photos, we get better badges on Google Maps, but that does not justify our presence in the Local Guides program and that does not motivate us to stay active in this community, but we stay in the community always and forever for the sole purpose of helping the world make the best decisions based on our contributions, I’m here because I want to help change the color of this world. That’s what means the Local Guides program for me.
I hope to see us very soon at CONNECT LIVE 2020, because I can’t wait to finally find my friends, my other family in person.
You can see my Application video (here) & my List on Google Maps (here)
So good luck to all of us!
Y-Nick