Mexico City Scouts break Guinness World Record

Scouts in Mexico City collected more than one million (1,155,670) cans and created the world’s biggest Scout emblem that is 1000m2 in size!

It took thousands of Scouts more than 2 days to build the shining Scout Emblem that broke the Guinness Record and helped raise money for the communities of Chiapas. The principal objectives of this Scouting event was to

• Contribute to and form an ecological culture through recycling
  
  
• Donate resources to social causes
  
  
• Strengthen the values and principles of Scouts in Mexico

Chiapas, a region that was badly hit by the hurricanes last year will benefit from the money raised from the recycling of the cans that is to be donated to projects that focus on street children and the rebuilding of communities.

The President of México Vicente Fox was present at the event and was witness to the great contribution Scouting has made to Mexican Society from the money raised by this event.

This year, the Mexican Scout Association celebrates its 80th year of being part of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement.

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Biggest Hug of Children Guinness world record 2008

Monterrey (Mexico), Feb 15 (IANS) More than 8,000 children participated in the planet’s biggest hug on Valentine’s Day here to set a Guinness world record, Spain’s EFE news agency reported Friday. The huge embrace was organised in Parque Tolteca in Guadalupe, a suburb of the northern metropolis of Monterrey.
Maria Olivia Chu, a government representative, confirmed the participation of 8,402 children.
The children joined arms in a long chain, in the shape of a spiral, in a park for more than a minute, so that the official could register the hug.

“We broke the previous Guinness record held by the city of Chihuahua,” said Guadalupe Mayor Cristina Diaz Salazar. She said the embrace was organised to “promote values of love and friendship”.

According to the organisers of the event, the previous Guinness world record for world’s biggest hug was made at Ciudad Juarez, near El Paso in the US state of Texas, where more than 6,000 children participated.