Hey Everyone! In the past few weeks I’ve had a lot of people interested in doing the thousand cranes project with their jr.interact clubs. The thousand cranes project originates from a japanese legend that if you create a senbazuru ( a string of a 1000 origami cranes) you can make a wish and have it come true. The idea of creating senbazurus really spread across the world to the US after Canadian writer Eleanor Coerr wrote Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes which told the true story of a girl named Sadako, who was diagnosed with leukemia due to radiation from the Hiroshima atom bomb and attempted to create a Senbazuru in hopes of wishing away her illness. Since then, countless foundations have been created to donate Senbazurus to hospitals. When I was a jr. interactor, my club folded a 1000 origami cranes for the Oakland Childrens Hospital’s cancer inpatient ward, and it is still one of my favorite service projects to date. Since so many clubs were interested in participating, we thought that we could make it into a collective jr. Interact event and have everyone collaborate. This way, indiviidual clubs would not have to make the daunting goal of a 1000 cranes, but instead fold a number that is within their reach and then combine it with the rest of the clubs to create enough. Jr. Interact clubs who sign up to participate would basically hold one or more folding days with their club and then get their finished cranes to their area director via their outreach coordinator. The district Outreach Coordinators would then send the cranes to an organization that would string and hang them in hospitals across the nation in the clubs name. If you are an Outreach Coordinator or Jr. Interactor interested in doing this activity with your club, please message me/comment below and I will send you more detailed information on how the project works, how to hold folding days, how to fold and teach people how to fold a crane, the organization etc. I look forward to hearing from all of you! Also, I promise that this link will come in handy: wikihow/Fold-a-Paper-Crane
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:33:42 +0000
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