Krimmel students unite to help raise funds for Japan

published May. 5, 2011

Krimmel Intermediate School students recently teamed up with Students Rebuild and Do Something in support of Japan following the earthquake and tsunami.

The students folded paper cranes that will be combined with cranes from all 50 states to trigger a $200,000 donation from the Bezos Family Foundation to fund Architecture for Humanity's reconstruction efforts in Japan. Once the organization reaches its goal of 100,000 submissions, at $2 a crane, the cranes will be woven into an art installation, a symbolic gift from students around the globe to Japanese youth.

As the theater arts students at Krimmel prepared to present the play A Thousand Cranes for the community, they folded paper cranes to be props for the play. When they learned of the opportunity to make cranes to generate funds for Japan, the theater students enlisted others to help them fold cranes.

In an ancient Japanese legend, if a person folded 1,000 origami paper cranes, the person’s wish would come true. The thousand paper cranes have become a symbol of world peace through the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who tried to stave off her death from leukemia as a result of radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II by making one thousand origami cranes.

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