Pavement Drawing for Guinness World Records!

JOOnior Smile – June 1 st, 2008

The children from Cluj will enter the Guinness Book of Records! On June 1 st , the Romanian Foundation for Children, Community and Family and Cluj-Napoca Mayor's Office will organise JOOnior Smile for them. Each child will bring his/her contribution to the biggest pavement drawing in the world!

JOOnior Smile aims at setting a new world pavement drawing record and writing it in the Guinness Book of Records. “Currently, the world pavement drawing record is of 5,612 sqm. On June 1 st , we are planning to draw up at least 7,000 sqm of pavement with the help of approximately 3,000 children from Cluj” (Camelia Mates, Fundraising and PR Manager, FRCCF) .

The students of Romul Ladea Arts High School and those from the Academy of Visual Arts will be in charge of coming up with a concept for the drawing – which has to be homogenous –, of marking the drawing outlines and coordinating the children. The subject of the drawing is Child Smile (the group of young artists will make a drawing that can illustrate what makes children smile and happy). The drawing will be made on the newest beltway of the town.

Throughout the whole June 1 st day, there will be witnesses to the making of this giant drawing, and a licensed topometry expert will measure the drawn up surface. These people will give statements to Guinness World Records, which will be sent with detailed documentation to London for record authentication.

Cluj County School Inspectorate advertises the event in all the schools from town in order to involve all the children who want to make this giant drawing and to support children in need.

JOOnior Smile is a fundraising event .

The support provided by the event sponsors and media partners will be used to organise the event as well as to support the children from low income families in Cluj, Oradea and Satu Mare. The funds raised will go to the children attending the FRCCF community centres to provide a safe family environment to all of them and the education and healthcare they need.