Meet five UN tour guides on Twitter
Have you every wanted to take a tour of the UN? You can now follow five UN tour guides on Twitter. The guides tweet about their daily experiences, general information about the UN and give an inside glimpse at what is happening at the UN Headquarters in New York.
Get to know the five tour guides:
Kateryna Bieliaieva (@VisitUNKatya) – Katya, as she is known, is from Ukraine and tweets in English and Russian.
“We want to convey to visitors that we are open, we are here and we are social,”
-Katya
Juliana Rose (@VisitUNJuliana) – Juliana, who is originally from Brazil, tweets in English and her native Portuguese.
“We convey the message of the UN to the visitors – the public – every day,”
-Juliana
Francesca Lorusso-Caputi (@VisitUNFrancesc) – Francesca is an Italian tour guide at the UN Headquarters and tweets in Italian, French and English.
“It is not just about guiding a group of people, it is deeper than that,”
-Francesca
Michael Crachiolo (@VisitUNMichael) – A tour guide from the United States, Michael tweets in English.
Michael tweets about the work of UN agencies, funds and programs, international days and campaigns as they relate to the tour route, and is particularly interested in gender issues.
Karin Orantes (@VisitUNKarin) – Karin is from Austria and tweets in German and English.
Karin tweets about UN Days and activities related the children and young people, such as Freerice. She is involved in the development of tours just for children.
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