The Peace & Justice Centre’s Origami Cranes project will be at the Meadows Festival Kids area on Satuday and Sunday 3 & 4 June from 11am – 5pm.
Come and learn how to make Origami cranes! Family Friendly. Free.
Folding paper cranes is done in memory of all those killed by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs because of the story of Sadako, a Japanese girl who was just two years old, living in Hiroshima when the atom bomb was dropped. Sadako later developed leukemia and while in hospital heard the legend that anyone who folded 1000 paper cranes would have their wish granted. Wishing for peace Sadako set out to fold One Thousand Paper Cranes before she died aged 12. A statue of Sadako holding a golden crane stands in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
This huge number represents all the people killed by the devastating Hiroshima atomic bomb in 1945 (that year alone).
