Launching of the “My City My Love Project”
The “My City My Love Project” is a people participatory project where people across Haiti (to start with) get to introduce their cities to each other and to the world via twitter.
How do you participate?
Tweet/share a picture of yourself in front of what you consider to be a landmark in your city. Write the name of the city,country #MyCityMyLoveProject. Example: Port-au-Prince, Haiti #MyCityMyLoveProject . You can also be more specific and add the name of the neighborhood like Bois Verna, Haiti etc.
What is a landmark?
For this project, we will adopt a broader definition of the word. It can be just about anything like a house, a sculpture, a park, a famous street corner where you and your friends like to hang out, a mural etc. Something that has an architectural or cultural significance to you and/or to the people living in your city. In the picture above, I am standing in front of a famous gingerbread house in the neighborhood of Bois Verna, in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
We are trying to disseminate a positive image of Haiti. A potential tourist traveling to your city should want to find that landmark and take a picture in front of it.
Let’s get started!
Kudos for starting this project. We need lots of positive to counteract the negative that is being portrayed so often.
One question though, does the person who’s posting the picture have to be in it?
The ideal is to be in it because I don’t want people to grab something from the internet. But if you are the one who took the picture, you can post it even if you are not in it.
I got my first visitor from Haiti! All excited! I don’t know who you are but please participate in this project. It is just the beginning!
I really like this idea! It’s actually what moved me to even start my livinggreeninhaiti blog. Definitely taking part in this