What does the Local Guides program mean to me

Hello friends.

Local guide program to me means a reliable partner and faithful friend in my daily life; fulfilling my dreams and discovering existing destinations of this beautiful world.

Previously, I was in a local guide program unconsciously due to my curiosity in technology. I was constantly looking for new things and applications in detail to get more out of it. Later in 2018, I accumulated many questions unanswered about google map. This triggered me to pose a question to a colleague who took me through it. This was the start of the beginning of this program of a local guide. By then I was already in Level 2; this was great news, delighted me to keep going!

Since that time, I have been partnering with local guide program to fulfill my dream of traveling to places and destinations locally and internationally. Besides, this program is more helpful to me even using it to locate places within my community. I still have a lot to contribute with reviews and answering questions concerning various local places I know. The program helps many people especially tourists who are coming to our beautiful blessed country – Tanzania, the land of Kilimanjaro. This program has made me focus on every detail of a place or destination I visit. Hence enables me to see and look at places beauty and appreciate by taking photos for sharing purpose. By sharing various photos and making reviews means caring to others and introducing a clear picture of a place.

[The photo below is me in August 2019 at Small Momela Lake, in Arusha Tanzania]

I have a lot of faith in the Local guide program as it enables a place to be narrated correctly by a person who is or has been physically there. This is a great initiative and creativity to google map users including tourists. Also, I am being attracted to travel to places in the world only by learning out of google map, yet when I travel to this place, I read review to be conversant to the place before even reaching there. I have done some reviews, added photos and added new places that have been viewed with thousands of people worldwide. This is a remarkable achievement for me personally. I really appreciate this program to give me this opportunity and yet to join me in this big community – Local Guides.

I appreciate and value so much to the fact that I am in this Local Guide program.

Thanks,

Foster Ngumba

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Hi @MadamFoster

Thank you for your post. It seems it’s an application for this year’s event Connect Live 2020. Make sure you read our guidelines on writing a great application for Connect Live. Follow these tips to create your Connect Live 2020 Video Application.

Don’t forget to check our tips on creating Google Maps lists, which will be an important part of your Connect Live application.

Please be advised that I moved your post to Local Stories where applicants should submit their response.

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