Global Ties Akron's global education program "Know Your Community-Know Your World" part of the #KYCKYW project. #21st century skills, #6th, #core #curriculum, #global education, #middle school

1. Origami Cranes for Peace
1000 Cranes of Peace for Syria Project
KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY – KNOW YOUR WORLD

2. The history of paper cranes as
symbols of peace
The senbazuru legend Thousand origami cranes
(千羽鶴 Senbazuru) is a group of one
thousand origami paper cranes (鶴 tsuru) held
together by strings. An ancient Japanese
legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand
origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane.
Some stories believe you are granted eternal good
luck, instead of just one wish, such as long life or
recovery from illness or injury.
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3. SADAKO SAKSAKI
Sadako Saksaki, a young Japanese
girl lived in Hiroshima during World
War II. She was two years old
when the atomic bomb dropped on
Hiroshima. Sadako developed
leukemia. In the hospital she folded
paper cranes because she wished
to live. Her family and friends
added to the 644 cranes she had
folded before her death, and buried
1000 cranes with her.
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4. To remember Sasaki and other children who died of
illnesses caused by the atomic bombing, the
Children’s Peace Monument was established at the
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in 1958. There is a
statue of Sadako holding a crane in Hiroshima Peace
Park at its base is a plaque that says:
これはぼくらの叫びです これは私たちの祈りです 世界に
平和をきずくためのKore wa bokura no sakebi desu.
Kore wa watashitachi no inori desu. Sekai ni heiwa o
kizuku tame no.This is our cry, this is our prayer: for
building peace in the world.
Sadako’s message to the world Peace not War…

5. AIF: PEACE
CRANES PROJECT:
SYRIA
1000 prayers and
wishes of
peace for SYRIA
 Full name: The Syrian Arab
Republic
 Population: 21.1 million
(UN, 2012)
 Capital: Damascus
 Area: 185,180 sq km
(71,498 sq miles)
 Major language: Arabic
 Major religions: Islam,
Christianity
 Life expectancy: 74 years
(men), 78 years (women)
(UN)
 Monetary unit: 1 Syrian
pound = 100 piastres
 Main exports: Oil, gas
 GNI per capita: US $2,750
(World Bank, 2010)

6. The Syrian refugee crisis has exploded
from about 270,000 people a year ago to
today’s tally of more than two million who
have fled the country.. In addition, an
estimated 4.25 million Syrians have been
displaced within their country, bringing the
total number forced into flight to more
than six million.

9.  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/gifs/origamcr.gif
 http://origami.org.uk/origamicrane