Five Young Dominicans Seek to Bring Reading Guinness Record Back to the Country
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- Five 18-year-old Dominicans from different provinces are taking part in the Youth in a Loud Voice initiative.
- They will alternate reading aloud without interruption for 20 days, beginning on Aug. 31 at 6 p.m.
- The effort aims to reclaim the Guinness record for team loud reading, which Nigeria currently holds.
Five 18-year-old Dominicans have taken on a 20-day challenge to bring a Guinness reading record back to the Dominican Republic.
Maikol Yafrani Arias Sánchez, Mayury A. Vélez Sánchez, Abril Sharmin del Rosario Jiménez, Franchesca Alí Minier Suárez and Ismael Alejandro Durán de la Rosa come from different provinces and are participating in “Youth in a Loud Voice,” an initiative of the Ministry of Youth.
The reading began on Aug. 31 at 6 p.m. The participants will take turns keeping the reading going continuously as they work toward the mark needed to reclaim the record for team loud reading, currently held by Nigeria.
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Originally published by Diario Libre in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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