“crowdfunding”* Campagne de financement participatif
We launched on March 1st, a crowdfunding campaign with helloasso to collect your help.
Blog excerpts
Parole de Greeter – Gérard de Valenciennes
Mon histoire avec les Greeters aurait très bien pu ne jamais s'écrire. C’est par souci de transmettre les connaissances que j’ai acquises sur la ville de Valenciennes que je suis devenu Greeter. Rencontrer d’autres personnes, les accueillir et partager avec elles un...
Pauline témoigne de son engagement Greeter
Je m’appelle Pauline et j’ai 49 ans. Je suis arrivée à Dunkerque en juin 2020 (après 25 ans de vie parisienne), une ville que je ne connaissais pas du tout hormis sa plage et sa longue digue. Et j’en suis tombée raide amoureuse. A travers des balades et des visites...
Laurence talks about her approach to disability with the Greeters du Nord
Laurence C. has been living in Dunkerque for 20 years. Passionate about "HER" adopted city, she became a Greeter in 2013 for the pleasure of meeting and sharing. She testifies here of her wish to make the Greeters walk accessible to blind people.Same category...
The Vezere Valley, a multifaceted territory
The Vezere Valley © Office TourismeThe Vézère valley is located in the heart of the Périgord Noir in the Dordogne and owes its name to the river that runs through it. It brings together some of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world. Fifteen of them are listed...
A participatory and slow-tourism approach
A Greeter is not a professional guide any more than a speaker. He is a local resident, passionate and proud to let you know his city, his village or his terroir. It welcomes visitors to its living environment and shares it with passion.
The Greeters networks thus contribute to the enhancement of cultural heritage and the dialogue between
cultures as ambassadors of french savoir-how, know-how and culture
Dear visitors, come alone or in a group of up to six people and discover the best deals during a walk or a discussion over a drink. Whatever the form of the discovery, the most important thing lies in the encounter.
What are Words of Greeters”?
These are stories of inhabitants,memories, amusing anecdotes, everyday adventures, true stories acquired throughout a lifetime and offered to us by an enthusiast.
The greeter likes to welcome the traveller as he would with his family or friends. His speech is not that of a specialist, but on the contrary, that of a inhabitant among others, who perceives things subjectively and lets him see the time that gives himself the time, what it is to live there. As you will have understood, there are as many stories as there are greeters, each bearing a unique but always benevolent look at his territory. We share common values of acceptance, respect for others and openness to the world. (Re)discover France differently and let us change your scene!
In addition to articles and videos, we want to launch a Podecast.
The Podcast, which at the same time immerses the listener in another world and yet gives way to his imagination, seems to us to be the best way to convey the emotions experienced during an encounter with a greeter.
To find out, listen for example to
the magnificent testimony of Lydia
, who tells us about her neighborhood of Nantes Nord where she lives…
To establish the authentic side of the encounter with a Greeter, we want to record a series of meetings and conversations in a place to discover on the destination. To this end, we are launching a crowdfunding campaign to finance this project. See the presentation below.