1000 Cranes

The Thousand Crane Club has begun again this year. There are 14 members of the club within Grade 4 - 8 and they will be responsible for; taking the many boxes of cranes we receive to the Peace Park monthly, sending certificates to participting schools and organisations, learning about Peace globally and locally, re-creating the story of Sadako in a variety of languages, becoming penpals of students worldwide, folding cranes and many more.

On September 28th, four students from Grade 4&5 went to the Peace Park to place the cranes within the booths from the following schools, see pictures below. We would like to say thank you to all the schools for participating in the petition for peace.

Glamorgan Kids Club - New Zealand

Keera-Pat International School - Thailand

Kentucky Avenue School - Pittsburgh - USA

Schule Rehna - Germany

Cheryl Lyons - Atlanta - GA

The Child Development Center - New Jersey

Thank you to the club members for attending and to all the above schools/individuals/organisations for sending us your boxes of folded cranes. We look forward to placing many more within the booths at Sadako’s Statue.

The next trip to the park will be in October and will involve students from Grade 6-8.

Michele Foster

Coordinator