PH bid to set record for biggest ‘woman’ symbol
People form a female symbol in celebration of International Women’s Day at the Quirino Grandstand, Manila. The event organized by the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) in partnership with Coca-Cola Philippines hopes to empower the Filipino women and set a Guinness World Record as the biggest human formation of the female symbol. INQUIRER PHOTO/RAFFY LERMA
MANILA, Philippines – Over 10,000 people gathered on Saturday in a bid to set a world record for the largest formation of the gender symbol for “woman,” as part of International Women’s Day.
The event, sponsored by the government’s commission on women and the local bottler of Coca-Cola, brought together 10,168 men and women who formed the giant symbol in Manila’s main public park, organizers said.
“The women’s symbol puts a spotlight on how women are poised to become the social and economic powerhouses of the future,” Adel Tamano, the Coca-Cola Philippines vice-president, said.
Organizers of the event said that it would still take a week before the record is officially validated by Guinness World Records.
There is no previous record for the largest human formation of a gender symbol, although the Guinness website lists 10,563 people as taking part in a giant formation of a droplet in Haryana, India in November, 2013.
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