A Second Guinness World Record For Vanuatu.
Posted on 22 November 2009 by Stenberg-Tendys W.L. in Promotion
On November 19th, YouMe Support Foundation hosted a Guinness World Record, for ‘How Many People Can Write a Story in 24 Hours’.
The attempt was successful with 838 participants taking part, mainly school students from around Port Vila. The record was previously held by Novum Verlag Gmbh in Neckenmarktt, Austria, with 797 participants, in 2007.
Student Writing Into The History Books
The students were bused in from their schools, by Melanesian Tours and registered. The teachers from Malapoa Teachers Training College then assisted the participants, in groups of 24, to form a sentence. There was a further registration before the sentence was added to the continuous scroll. Often the students waited patiently for up to 1 hour, as only one person was permitted to write at a time, according to the rules laid out by the Guinness World Record organization.
Chris Sheedy, the only Asia-Pacific Guinness World Record adjudicator said, “It was the first time I have been invited to a Pacific island to adjudicate an event.” In his speech declaring the attempt successful, he complemented YouMe Support Foundation on such a well organized event and the fact that it embraced and enhanced the local culture.
The 35 chapters of ‘Vanuatu Treasure’, was brilliantly illustrated by a local Ni-Vanuatu, cartoonist, Guy Deroin. The plot involved two children and a giant tortoise searching across the entire tropical island archipelago of Vanuatu, for clues to a hidden treasure chest. On their way they uncovered all the exciting and interesting things that can be actually found in Vanuatu, from the giant kauri forest in the south, to the largest South Pacific fresh water lake on top of a volcano, to water music in the far north. The story will be published as a book, that the public will be able to purchase.
Prime Minister Edward Natapei was present to see the event announced as a success, just 10 hours after it had commenced. He believed that a Guinness World Record is the ideal promotion for Vanuatu abroad, as many people are not sure just where one of the best holiday destinations in the South Pacific, is located.
The Prime Minister agreed that the three life size characters and the scroll should take their place in history, in a display at the Cultural Museum in Port Vila.
This is the second Guinness World Record for Vanuatu. The only other one is held by the underwater post office at Hideaway Resort.
The Guinness World Record attempt was part of the ongoing promotion of raising funds for high school education grants. Just as Marter Homes and Boy’s Town raise funds in Australia, by raffling expensive homes, so YouMe Support Foundation is raising funds by raffling a prime piece of real estate on the Internet, on winaresort.com.
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23 November 2009
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Hey Wendy, well done on the world record! All that hard work was worth it.
Congratulations on not only achieving a world record but including unique characteristics only found in Vanuatu within the story challenge. Well done!