PAPER CRANE PEACE CAMPAIGN
What do paper cranes have to do with peace? Here's a brief background.
In 1945, the USA droped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. A little girl named Sadako was only 2 years old at the time, but later on - at the age of 12 - she finds out that she has cancer because of it. She goes in and out of the hospital, but they can't save her life. An old Japanese tale says that anyone who folds 1000 paper cranes will be granted a wish or a miracle. To try to save her own life Sadako tried to fold 1000 paper cranes. Some stories say that she did it just before she died, while others say that she didn't but her friends finished them for her after her deth. She was buried in 1955 with hundreds of paper cranes in her coffin. Over the next several years, Sadako's friends worked very hard to get a peace statue built in her honor, and in honor of all other children that died because of the atomic bomb. The statue still stands in Hiroshima today and students all over the world fold and send paper cranes every year in celebration and in hope of world peace.
The sibiu campaign
The idea is to fold 1000 paper cranes before UN Human Rights Day, and hang them trees up and down Str. Balcescu. It could be very beautiful since it is near X-mas. Folding 1000 paper cranes will be hard but if we get lots of people it won't be so bad(people interested please talk to your local R&S member). We can also ask people to fold a crane and write a wish on the inside and hope it comes true. We'll need a samll group of volunteers to help organize the folding, get permission to hang them andas well as get others involved.
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