Throughout the month of May, the CBC Library is asking for your help to reach our goal of creating 1,000 paper origami cranes.
At the end of the month, these paper cranes will be sent to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Japan, with a message of peace and well-wishes for the future.
You can also make your own at home and bring them in!
Senbazuru, which translates to "1,000 cranes" in Japanese, is a longstanding tradition of folding one thousand origami paper cranes. In Japanese culture, the crane symbolizes longevity, happiness, and good fortune. Folding a thousand cranes is often undertaken as a prayer for someone who is ill to recover, or as a wish for personal happiness and good luck. The most well-known story associated with senbazuru is that of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who developed leukemia as a result of radiation exposure from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. -Japan-Experience.com
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