We made one thousand origami paper cranes and held them on the school fence. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted eternal good luck.
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Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Day of peace
Last thursday (30th january) we celebrated the school day of non-violence and peace. It was founded in 1964 as a initiative of non-violent and pacifying education. It is now practised in schools all over the world. 30th january is the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Ghandi.
We made one thousand origami paper cranes and held them on the school fence. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted eternal good luck.
The thousand origami cranes were popularized through the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was two years old when she was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II. Sasaki soon developed leukemia and, at age 12 after spending a significant amount of time in a nursing home, began making origami cranes with the goal of making one thousand, inspired by the senbazuru legend. In a popular version of the story as told in the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, she folded only 644 before she became too weak to fold anymore, and died on 25 of October 1955; in her honor, her classmates felt sorry and agreed to complete the rest for her.
We made one thousand origami paper cranes and held them on the school fence. An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted eternal good luck.
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